On April 26, 2024, a research activity was conducted for the Year-3 students majoring in Chinese Culture and Global Communication (CCGC) program from the Department of Communication. This research activity served as part of the capstone course on "GCAP 3263: Special Topics in Communication and Chinese Culture." Dr. Wei Chin Wong, who is the course instructor and the convenor of the Final Year Project ...

    On April 25, 2024, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) organized a roundtable discussion on the topic of “Teaching and Learning History in China”. Four esteemed experts, including Paul A. Van Dyke, who is the One-Hundred Talents Project Fellow and a Retired Professor from the History Department of Sun Yat-sen University; Chao Huang, a Professor from the Academy of Cultura...

        On March 4, 2024, Mr. Wu Ziqi from École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) of Paris, France, delivered a speech about his studies on the dynamic interactions among China, France, and Vietnam during the period spanning the 1880s to the 1940s. Mr. Wu began the speech by sharing his personal experiences from his native hometown, Zhanjiang, and then the Chinese University of Ho...

The International Symposium on the Integration of Chinese palaeography and old Chinese phonology, celebrating the 75th birthday of Prof. William H. Baxter, was held on March 9-10 at Westlake University in Hangzhou. Dr. Jianing Chen participated it and presented a paper titled “Scientific and Historical Limitations of the Qing Scholars’ Research on Old Chinese Phonology”. The paper reviewed t...

On December 17, 24 year-3 students from the Chinese Culture and Global Communication (CCGC) major and two exchange students under the leadership of Dr. Wei Chin Wong and Miss Connie Li traveled to Macau- a well-conserved region with more than four centuries of East-West cultural exchanges and assimilation. The group visited several historic sites and a museum to gain a firsthand glimpse at Maca...

The student-curated poster exhibition titled “Discovering the Legacy: History of Western Sinology” took place from December 1st to December 10th, 2023. The exhibition was organized by Dr. Wong Wei Chin and Miss Connie Li and involved the participation of all the 2021 cohort students from the Chinese Culture and Global Communication (CCGC) program, which is a part of the Department of Communic...

On December 2, 2023, Dr. Diao Xiaolong, Assistant Professor of Chinese Culture and Global Communication (CCGC) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS), led a group of 12 students from UIC to participate in the "Forum on Promoting the Tradition of Studying Abroad and Serving the Country." This event was part of the Second Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Forum and the 5...

Dr. Xiaolong Diao, Assistant Professor of Chinese Culture and Global Communication (CCGC) from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science (FHSS) of UIC, participated in the academic seminar "Cultural Exchange in East Asia in the 17th Century - Focused on the Eastward Propagation of Huangbo Chan Master". The seminar was jointly organized by the FHSS of UIC, Fuqing Huangbo Academy, and Fuqing H...