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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...
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Chinese unofficial poetry journals now accessible in Digital Collections10 June 2021Leiden 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 Order16 April 2021In 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 students29 March 2021The 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 collection18 February 2021Leiden 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 astronomy03 November 2020On 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 Justice20 May 2020A 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 scientists14 April 2020The 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 Hague09 April 2020Sylvie 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 2020China 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 outlet21 November 2019How does the Chinese government communicate with its citizens? Yuxi Nie obtained her PhD with her thesis on communication strategies of the Chinese st...