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Student lectures for senior citizens: ‘You can learn a lot from other generations’19 April 2023Connecting generations, reducing loneliness and slowing mental decline: these are goals of the Oud Geleerd Jong Gedaan foundation’s lectures, which ar...
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Weidong Zhang on achieving decent work in China04 April 2023On 23 March 2023 Weidong Zhang defended his thesis in Leiden on achieving decent work in China. This research analyses to what extent China is achievi...
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Deconstructing a more assertive China: How did its foreign policy change?20 March 2023Since 2009-2010, the West viewed China as more assertive. Especially after Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, the country abandoned Deng Xiaoping’s ‘lo...
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Who spoke what language in north-western sixth-century China?14 March 2023Fifteen hundred years ago, the north-west of what we now call China was a jumble of peoples. How did those Indians, Khotanese and Tocharians influence...
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How do teachers learn in a work placement programme?13 February 2023Na Zhou (PhD at ICLON) researched how vocational teachers’ learning takes place in a work placement programme and how their learning supports their te...
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Protests in China: Politicians afraid of not the population but colleagues05 December 2022That it was students who started the protests in China against its zero Covid policy makes things more dangerous for politicians. China expert Frank P...
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Yao Yuan speaks at conference in Rome07 November 2022On 28 October 2022, Yao Yuan spoke at the conference in Rome on 'Understanding national security concerns in light of FDI screening', jointly organise...
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All eyes on China: the Communist Party Congress is coming up06 October 2022The world’s attention will shift to China as the Communist Party is set to hold its five-yearly congress beginning on 16 October. We talk to Senior Un...
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Exhibition unveils Central Asian part of Silk Road22 August 2022An exhibition at Oude UB takes visitors to the historical Silk Road. Old maps, clothes and jewellery reflect the rich heritage of the cities of Centra...
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Tensions between China and Taiwan: what's behind it?08 August 2022For a while, it was uncertain whether prominent American politician Nancy Pelosi would travel to Taiwan. But last Tuesday, she did visit – much to the...
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Fifty years of diplomatic relations with China: an ‘open and pragmatic’ partnership06 June 2022This year, the Netherlands and China reflect on fifty years of diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level. How has the relationship between the count...
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Video series: Collaboration with China in daily practice31 May 2022What are the benefits for us of collaboration with Chinese partners? What sparks off Leiden researchers' interest in collaborating with colleagues in ...
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Leiden Chinese heritage collections digitised in Pagode-Europeana-China project19 November 2021Leiden University Libraries (UBL) recently participated in the Pagode-Europeana-China project as an associated partner. As a result, almost two hundre...
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Podcast: students decipher a rare Chinese document13 September 2021Last February, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) acquired a rare Chinese manuscript dating back to the Ming Dynasty. Three Chinese Studies students go...
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NWO and ERC grant for research on Chinese infrastructure21 June 2021In the coming years, Hilde De Weerdt gets to spend over three million euros. She received grants from both the European Research Council (ERC) and the...