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China Times Young Scholar Fellowship

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2025-26 China Times Young Scholar Fellowship Award – Deadline is approaching, apply NOW!

The China Times Cultural Foundation (CTCF) is pleased to announce the 2025-26 competition for the annual China Times Young Scholar Fellowship Award in Chinese Studies.

About the Foundation

The China Times Cultural Foundation (CTCF) is a non-profit organization devoted to promoting Chinese culture and related studies. Since its founding in 1986, CTCF has given hundreds of awards to PhD candidates who have made outstanding contributions to Chinese studies. The Foundation has also sponsored numerous academic seminars, symposia, and scholarly publications.

Funding Details

Award Amount:

$10,000 for the Special Fellowship Award in memory of CTCF Founder Mr. Chi-Chung Yu and Mrs. Alice Tsai Yu; $7,000 for the Young Scholar Fellowship Award

Number of Awards Given This Year:

The top 2 applicants will be selected for the Special Award; another 8 applicants will be given the Young Scholar Award

Eligibility Criteria Continue reading China Times Young Scholar Fellowship →

CUHK visiting fellowship programme 2026

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Call for Applications

The Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) invites applications for the Visiting Fellowship Programme. This Programme aims to support scholars in Chinese Studies to visit and conduct research at CUHK for a period of 3 to 4 months during the academic year either from January to April, or September to December. While in residence, the visiting fellow is expected to interact with colleagues at CUHK, conduct and present his/her research, and work on a publication project.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Assistant Professors or above from recognized universities or research institutions

Application should include:

  • An updated curriculum vitae
  • A research project proposal

Online Application: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13709242

Deadline: 31 July 2025. Selection will be made on a competitive basis.

Announcement of Result: 29 August 2025

Subsidy

Airfare to and from home institution (economy class), on-campus accommodation, an office space and a monthly stipend of HKD$20,000.

Completion Report

  • A three-page written report within 3 months of completion, listing the activities participated during his/her visit.
  • A book manuscript/chapters with the acknowledgment to this visiting scheme that he/she published within a year.

Enquiries: ics-programmes@cuhk.edu.hk

Posted by: Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
<ics-programmes@cuhk.edu.hk>

U of Vienna postdoc

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Postdoc position on FWF-funded project “Performing Postsocialism in Twenty-First-Century China”, University of Vienna, Austria

The Department of East Asian Studies (Chinese Studies section) of the University of Vienna, Austria is seeking to appoint a postdoctoral researcher to work on the project “Performing Postsocialism in Twenty-First-Century China” (PI: Prof. Rossella Ferrari), funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

The duration of the postdoc contract is of 2 years (24 months), starting on 01/01/2026. The language of the project is English.

The full job description and application details can be found at: https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Scientific-project-assistant-postdoc/1210420601/

Application deadline: 04/07/2025

Rossella Ferrari <rossella.ferrari@univie.ac.at>

Göttingen visiting fellowship

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Call for Applications – Göttingen Visiting Fellowship (Fall 2025)
Deadline: June 10

Against a backdrop of global political power shifts and faced with the environmental crisis and social injustice, the Joint Center for Advanced Studies “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China” explores existing notions of “world” and approaches to worldmaking from transnational and transcultural perspectives. The Center is jointly organized by researchers at universities in Göttingen, Heidelberg, Munich, and Würzburg. It is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Within the framework of the Center, the project “Conceptions of World Order and Their Social Carrier Groups” is located at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (PI: Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier). The project researchers explore various patterns and rhythms of world order-related thinking in China, Europe and other regions. With an eye on conceptions of world order, the project not only analyzes images of global political and economic power formations but also includes into the picture other factors like cultural hegemonies or global social and religious movements.

The Göttingen-based project welcomes applications from scholars who are working in a field related to the project and conduct their research in a comparative manner and/or investigate transnational connections among intellectuals and other agents .In order to promote international knowledge exchange, dialogue, and cooperation, the Center has established a visiting fellowship program. During the fellowship period from September to December, the program provides one to two short-term fellowships at one of the Center’s partner institutions. The duration varies can vary between two and four months. Continue reading Göttingen visiting fellowship →

Crime and Society doctoral fellowship

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The Franco-Taiwanese research program CRISOLIC (Crime and Society in Late Imperial China) offers a three-year (36 months) doctoral fellowship.

The CRISOLIC program is coordinated by Luca Gabbiani (French School of Asian Studies/EFEO and School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences/EHESS), WU Jen-Shu (Insitute of Modern History, Academia Sinica) and Frédéric Constant (Nice University). It aims at offering a first comprehensive view of criminality in Qing China (18th and 19th centuries). It will make use of the four main collections of Qing-era local archives as well as central government judicial archives. The team seeks to approach these bodies of materials combining a quantitative and a qualitative approach.

The doctoral candidate will work on a topic related to the program’s framework and will be integrated in the research team. They will work under the supervision of Luca Gabbiani and Frédéric Constant. Main work location: Paris.

Application deadline: 31 May 2025. Start of fellowship: 1 September 2025.

For a complete presentation of the fellowship, see below.

Luca Gabbiani <luca.gabbiani@efeo.net> Continue reading Crime and Society doctoral fellowship →

BACS Best Doctoral Thesis Award 2025 — nominations

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2025 BACS Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis on China
Calls for Nominations:

The British Association of Chinese Studies invites nominations for the Best Doctoral Thesis Prize on China for 2025. Self-nominations are invited. To enter the competition:

  • A candidate must be a member of the British Association of Chinese Studies. If you are not a member and wish to be eligible, please find details on how to join BACS here: http://bacsuk.org.uk/about-us/membership
  • A candidate must have successfully passed their thesis at any point between 1st January 2024 and 31st December 2024.
  • The candidate must have completed their doctorate at a UK higher education institution OR else be based in the UK at the time of submitting their application.
  • Candidates can have completed their thesis on China in any disciplinary or interdisciplinary (e.g. area studies, development studies, gender studies, social policy studies, media studies) department and with reference to any time period.
  • Candidates should be available to attend the BACS annual conference.

To enter the prize competition, candidates need to email the following documents to the Administrative Chair of the BACS Doctoral Thesis Prize Panel, Chris Berry, (chris.berry@kcl.ac.uk) by 31 May 2025: Continue reading BACS Best Doctoral Thesis Award 2025 — nominations →

Early Chinese Film Scene Index, and Survey

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Dear MCLC list members,

The Chinese Film Classics Project needs your help! Since 2020, the Project (chinesefilmclassics.org) has translated over forty (40) early Chinese films into English and made them available to the public for free. New funding is required to sustain the project, and grant agencies like to see evidence of “impact.” As such, if you have used any CFC films, please complete this brief anonymous survey, so that your institution, course(s), and/or students can be counted!

Alternatively, you can email me at <chris.rea@ubc.ca>. Thank you!

Christopher Rea

You can find the films on the Chinese Film Classics website: https://chinesefilmclassics.org/films/

FILM SCENE INDEX

Curious about early Chinese films but unsure where to start? Browse this new index and click on the link to watch a sample scene from one of the dozens of films translated by the Chinese Film Classics Project. The goals of this index are to make these films more accessible, to highlight some of their special features, to facilitate self-guided discovery, and to provide a resource for learners and educators. I make additions to this list periodically, so check back for updates.

https://chinesefilmclassics.org/index/ Continue reading Early Chinese Film Scene Index, and Survey →

2025-26 China Times Young Scholar Fellowship Award

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The China Times Cultural Foundation (CTCF) is pleased to announce the 2025-26 competition for the annual China Times Young Scholar Fellowship Award in Chinese Studies.

About the Foundation

The China Times Cultural Foundation (CTCF) is a non-profit organization devoted to promoting Chinese culture and related studies. Since its founding in 1986, CTCF has given hundreds of awards to PhD candidates who have made outstanding contributions to Chinese studies. The Foundation has also sponsored numerous academic seminars, symposia, and scholarly publications.

Funding Details

Award Amount:

  • $10,000 for the Special Fellowship Award in memory of CTCF Founder Mr. Chi-Chung Yu and Mrs. Alice Tsai Yu; $7,000 for the Young Scholar Fellowship Award

Number of Awards Given This Year:

  • The top 2 applicants will be selected for the Special Award; another 8 applicants will be given the Young Scholar Award

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must: Continue reading 2025-26 China Times Young Scholar Fellowship Award →

2025-26 Hou Family Fellowships in Taiwan Studies

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2025-26 Hou Family Fellowships in Taiwan Studies

The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University is pleased to announce the 2025-26 competition for the Hou Family Fellowships in Taiwan Studies.

The Hou Family Fellowships in Taiwan Studies sponsors one Postdoctoral Fellow and one Pre-doctoral Fellow to join the Fairbank Center to pursue Taiwan-focused research in the humanities or social sciences for six to twelve months between August 1, 2025, and July 31, 2026. Affiliation for the full academic year is encouraged.

Hou Family Fellows are expected to reside in the Greater Boston area for the duration of the fellowship. Fellows will have the opportunity to engage with the Fairbank Center’s interdisciplinary community of scholars and will have access to Harvard’s world-class libraries and other resources.

In addition to maintaining their own research agenda, the Hou Family Fellows will contribute to the Fairbank Center community in ways that could include the following: Continue reading 2025-26 Hou Family Fellowships in Taiwan Studies →

2025-26 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowships

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The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University is pleased to announce the competition for the 2025-26 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowships in Chinese Studies.

For academic year 2025-26 the Fairbank Center is offering two post-doctoral fellowships to support participants in an interdisciplinary research group that will focus on the timely theme of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Society in Global China. The research group will be led by Dr. Ya-Wen Lei, Professor of Sociology and Dr. Moira Weigel, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.

Research Theme:

The 2025-26 An Wang research group aims to examine AI development, adoption, and impact as multidimensional, transnational processes shaped by historical precedents, China’s domestic evolution, and contemporary global dynamics. Potential research may pursue the following thematic areas of inquiry:

  • AI development and global diffusion
  • Adoption and adaptation of AI in and beyond China
  • Historical perspectives on AI development
  • Impact of AI on work, professions, and organizations.

We welcome applications from postdoctoral candidates from a range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, media studies, history of science, political science, and Science and Technology Studies, with research interests aligned with the above theme.

The application deadline is January 10, 2025. Continue reading 2025-26 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowships →

NUS Postdoctoral Fellowships in Chinese Studies

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The Department of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS) is inviting applications for up to 3 fully funded postdoctoral fellows for 1 year for the Academic Year 2025-26. Postdoctoral fellows are chosen from a competitive selection process. They will spend one year with the department working on research for a book manuscript or articles. In addition, they are expected to deliver a seminar about their research during their fellowship and teach one course for the department.

We welcome applications from junior scholars who have research interests in any of the following areas:

  • Chinese Literature
  • Chinese Media Studies
  • Chinese History
  • Chinese Linguistics
  • Translation and Interpreting Studies, with a focus on Chinese-English and/or English-Chinese translation/interpreting
  • Overseas Chinese Studies
  • Chinese Philosophy
  • Chinese Religion

A doctoral degree is required by one month prior to the start of the fellowship. Candidates must provide confirmation of successful completion of their terminal doctoral degree, in the form of a diploma or a certificate of completion from the degree-granting institution’s Registrar. Applicants may not be more than three years beyond the receipt of their doctoral degree at the start of the fellowship. Applicants should possess native-speaking, or near native-speaking, competence in both Mandarin and English. Continue reading NUS Postdoctoral Fellowships in Chinese Studies →

Stanford postdoc 2025-26

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2025-26 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chinese Studies

Stanford University’s Center for East Asian Studies is pleased to offer one postdoctoral fellowship in Chinese Studies for the 2025-26 academic year, open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences studying any historical period. Deadline: Jan 15, 2025.

The fellowship provides a 12-month stipend beginning September 1 of each year and ending August 31 of the following year. Fellows are required to be in residence in the Stanford area during the appointment period, to teach one course during the academic year, and to participate in all regular Center activities. Stanford University Press will have first right of refusal for manuscripts produced during the postdoctoral appointment.

Qualifications:

  • Applicants must have been awarded their Ph.D. no later than August 31 the year in which the fellowship begins, and may not be more than four years beyond receipt of the doctoral degree at the start of their fellowship.
  • In addition to non-affiliated PhD’s, this fellowship may be awarded to those who hold continuing, assistant professor-level teaching positions, if they meet other application qualifications.
  • U.S. citizenship is not required.
  • Those who have received their Ph.D. from Stanford University will not normally be considered.

Please review additional requirements here. You can complete your application here.

Posted by: Ekaterina Mozhaeva <ceas-communications@stanford.edu>

Geiss-Hsu Travel Grant

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Thanks to the generous support of the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation, the Executive Committee of the Ming-Qing Forum of the Modern Languages Association is pleased to announce the Geiss-Hsu Travel Grant to support participation in the 2025 MLA annual convention by scholars of the Ming and adjacent periods. Convention participants (panel presenters, discussants, or organizers) may apply for grants of up to a maximum of $2000 to reimburse the costs of conference travel, registration, and lodging. Selection will be based on need, with preference given to graduate students, junior faculty, and faculty at institutions that provide limited funding for research travel. Awards will be announced in early December, with funds provided after the conference. For full consideration, please apply here by October 15, 2024.

For questions, please contact Rania Huntington, huntington@wisc.edu  or Patricia Sieber, sieber.6@osu.edu.

Luce/ACLS Collaborative Grant 2024

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The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to award the 2024 Luce/ACLS Collaborative Grant in China Studies to the project Diversifying Humanistic Pedagogy in China Studies: Incorporating Ethnic Minority Literary and Cultural Productions into North American College Classrooms.

The newest competition in the Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies is designed to support the development of effective strategies for long-term change in the field of China studies through working groups that will design and pilot activities to solve specific, pressing challenges in the field.

The first winning project addresses a lack of consideration of ethnic diversity in the current Chinese literary and cultural curriculum at institutions of higher education in North America. The project team is composed of faculty from diverse ranks and institutions in the US, as well as collaborators in China:

  • Yanshuo Zhang (Principal Investigator), Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures, Pomona College
  • Mark Bender, Professor of Chinese, The Ohio State University
  • Li Guo, Professor of Asian Studies, Utah State University
  • Robin Visser, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Jiajun Wang,  Founder of the Taoping Qiang Culture Museum, Sichuan, China
  • Jingui Zhang, Artist and educator

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ACLS 2024-25 competitions

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The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce its 2024-25 fellowship and grant competitions. ACLS offers programs that promote research across all fields of the humanities and interpretive social sciences.

Our application, peer review, and award processes aim to promote inclusive excellence, and we welcome applicants from groups that are underrepresented in the academic humanities and from across the diverse landscape of higher education.

Learn about application information and eligibility criteria for all programs.

Application deadlines vary by program. ACLS is now accepting applications for fellowship and grant programs with September, October, and early November deadlines. Other programs, including The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies, ACLS Digital Justice Grants, and the Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies, will begin accepting applications in the coming months.

September 25, 2024, 9:00 PM EDT

  • ACLS Fellowships (for scholars across all postdoctoral career stages in all fields of the humanities and interpretive social sciences)

October 30, 2024, 9:00 PM EDT

Continue reading ACLS 2024-25 competitions →