East Asian Studies (MA) (60EC)
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Prof. dr. R.E. Breuker
Remco Breuker is a historian of Korea and Northeast Asia, who works on medieval Korean and Northeast Asian history and on contemporary North Korean affairs. Other interests are Korean cinema, Modernity and Central Asian history. View his full profile here.
Prof. dr. R.P.E. Sybesma
Rint Sybesma is a professor of Chinese Linguistics at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. His main research area is the syntax of the Sinitic and non-Sinitic languages of China. View his full profile here.
Prof. dr. F.N. Pieke
Frank Pieke is professor at the Leiden Asia Center, Leiden University, and affiliated professor of Modern China Studies at the Institute for Area Studies. His fields of interest are Modern Chinese Studies, social anthropology and the Chinese Communist Party. View his full profile here.
Prof.dr. K.J. Cwiertka
Kasia Cwiertka is a professor of Modern Japan Studies at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. Her research interests are Material Culture and Consumption, History and Anthropology of Food, Anthropology of Colonialism and War, Globalisation. View her full profile here.
Prof. dr. A.T. Gerritsen
Anne Gerritsen is Professor Asian Art at Leiden University. Her research interests include material culture in history, food and food cultures in Asia and Europe, theory and methods of history, and gender. View her full profile here.