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Fifty years of diplomatic relations with China: an ‘open and pragmatic’ partnership 06 June 2022
This 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 practice 31 May 2022
What 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 project 19 November 2021
Leiden 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 document 13 September 2021
Last 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 infrastructure 21 June 2021
In 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...
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Chinese unofficial poetry journals now accessible in Digital Collections 10 June 2021
Leiden University Libraries has made a large number of unofficial poetry journals from China accessible online in its Digital Collections. This opens ...
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Reading list - The Rise of China and the New Global Order 16 April 2021
In the past half a century, China has transformed from an underdeveloped and inward-looking country to a major player in world politics. The country a...
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Amnesty International gives masterclass to Leiden students 29 March 2021
The annual Amnesty International Masterclass on China took place recently in Leiden. The masterclass, which looked at China’s impact on human rights, ...
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Leiden University Libraries acquires 16th-century Chinese imperial edict from Robert van Gulik’s collection 18 February 2021
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been able to acquire an extraordinary Chinese manuscript at auction in Hong Kong. It concerns an Imperial Edict ...
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Leiden University signs agreement with Tsinghua to co-foster PhDs in astronomy 03 November 2020
On 26 October, Leiden University held its first online signing ceremony, signing an agreement with China’s top university Tsinghua to establish a join...
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Video meeting with Judge Xue Hanqin, Vice President to the International Court of Justice 20 May 2020
A group of Chinese law students currently study this semester at the Leiden Law Faculty with a special focus on public international law. These top ta...
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The corona crisis through the eyes of social scientists 14 April 2020
The corona crisis relates to not only the medical field but also the field of the social sciences and humanities. SSH Beraad, a consultation body that...
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The Yenching Academy selects Honours Student of LUC The Hague 09 April 2020
Sylvie Ramakers of Leiden University College The Hague has been accepted to the prestigious Yenching Academy of Peking University in Beijing China, ma...
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Why the WTO ban on China’s export duties should be ‘greened’ 14 February 2020
China is prohibited from using export duties to address any environmental problems. This is unfortunate, according to PhD candidate Fengan Jiang (Rich...
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A look at the communication strategies of a Chinese state-owned media outlet 21 November 2019
How does the Chinese government communicate with its citizens? Yuxi Nie obtained her PhD with her thesis on communication strategies of the Chinese st...