Projects

The departments of East Asian Studies at the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield have jointly founded the White Rose East Asia Centre. It is based on the already substantive collaboration between two of Europe's pre-eminent departments of East Asian studies under the umbrella of the White Rose University Consortium.

For over forty years the two universities have been the main national providers of training and supervision in modern Chinese and Japanese language and area studies at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The Centre pools our joint resources and expertise in language provision, and in the social sciences and humanities, in order to create a unified and focussed national centre of excellence for research and postgraduate training on China and Japan. It brings together nearly fifty researchers organised in four research clusters to address the major social, cultural, political and economic issues facing modern East Asia. The Centre provides a lively and stimulating home for taught Masters students pursuing one or two year programmes, research students and post-doctoral and advanced researchers.

For more information go to www.wreac.org.