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Flying visit by high-ranking Chinese delegation 06 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 Prize 04 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 visit 25 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 policy 30 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 Korea 09 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 China 06 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 texts 13 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 2017 05 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 universities 23 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 China 13 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...
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Entertainment and enlightenment for the masses: reality television in China 27 June 2016In the state-controlled, censored, and taboo-ridden media landscape of communist China, one would not expect seeing a television show featuring real p...
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University of Chicago Press Journals Continue to Earn Top Impact Factor Rankings 14 October 2015
According to Thomson Reuters’ 2014 Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) and the Washington & Lee University School of Law 2014 Journal Rankings, 22 journal...
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King and Queen consult China experts in Leiden 05 October 2015King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima attended a meeting at Leiden University on 1 October to prepare for their state visit to China. China experts i...
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Daniela Stockmann awarded Goldsmith Book Prize 31 March 2015Leiden University political scientist Daniela Stockmann has been awarded the 2015 Goldsmith Book Prize for best academic book in the field of media, p...
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A sustainable approach for the world's fish supply 12 January 2015China’s booming aquaculture industry is increasingly dependent on fishmeal made from wild-caught fish, a practice that depletes wild fish stocks. A ne...