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Two Leiden Law School Alumni Awarded Second Prize of Wells-HeinOnline-Frontiers of Law in China Paper Competition20 March 2018Dr. Jingshu Zhu, a former PhD student at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, and Ms. Qiaozi Guanglin, alumna from Leiden Law School’s ...
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New MOOC on Arbitration of International Disputes open for enrolment17 January 2018On 29 January 2018, the new “Arbitration of International Disputes” MOOC (massive open online course), taught by Prof. Eric De Brabandere and Dr. Giu...
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This was the Leiden Asia Year18 December 20172017 was the Leiden Asia Year. Leiden has had connections with Asia and built up extensive knowledge of the continent over many centuries. This Leiden...
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Collective Labour Rights and Collective Labour Relations of China18 December 2017On Thursday 11 January 2018, Xiang Li will defend her doctoral thesis: “Collective Labour Rights and Collective Labour Relations of China”. The defenc...
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Chinese and Dutch Teachers of English have different opinions about cultures associated with the English language17 November 2017Teachers of English as a foreign language in China and the Netherlands have different notions of themselves as teachers in relation to cultures associ...
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Flying visit by high-ranking Chinese delegation06 November 2017A high-ranking delegation from China visited Leiden on 6 November. The party of some 25 officials from the CPPCC – a Chinese advisory body comparable ...
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Florian Schneider wins LUS Teaching Prize04 September 2017Florian Schneider has earned the title of Leiden University Lecturer of the Year. Sinologist Schneider was nominated by his students and crowned winne...
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Chinese delegation at Leiden Law School for juvenile justice study visit25 August 2017From 21 August to 24 August, a Chinese delegation together with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI) conducted a...
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Richard Jiang on the potential role of export duties in China’s environmental policy30 May 2017On 26 and 27 May 2017, Richard Jiang, PhD candidate at the Europa Institute, participated as a speaker in the ninth annual meeting of the Society for ...
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Leiden builds stronger bonds with China and South Korea09 May 2017‘China has become an academic powerhouse, which is good reason for Leiden University to expand our partnerships with universities there.' A delegation...
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How ‘Mao’s little generals’ wreaked havoc in China06 February 2017No matter how hard Chinese communists tried to control the economy, they could not stop the free market from flourishing. This was the message given b...
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Digging up new information from ancient Chinese texts13 December 2016How were ideas about politics and society distributed in ancient China? Hilde De Weerdt, Professor of Chinese History, investigates this using new dig...
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Frank Dikötter to receive honorary doctorate at Dies Natalis 201705 December 2016Historian Frank Dikötter will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University for his work on the history of the Chinese Republican period and th...
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Leiden strengthens collaboration with two Chinese universities23 November 2016Leiden University is working increasingly closely with Chinese universities. On 22 November the Rector signed a statement of intent to ratify the rela...
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Studying in an ultramodern and traditional China13 September 2016More and more Leiden students are studying in China. Two of them talk about their summer course there. 'Now I understand better the kind of country Ch...