WUN China Center
Posted by Celia Walter | 28 Apr, 2009
WUN Contemporary China Center
Part of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), the WUN China Center aims to combine the expertise of member institutions in the US, Great Britain, Australia, and China in order to reach a more thorough understanding of China and the Chinese through a cross-disciplinary approach. On the main page, users will find a textual introduction to the centre's aims and ideals, and can access links to staff members in participating universities (for example, UK members include The University of Bristol, The University of Leeds and The University of Sheffield, all leaders in East Asia research). The centre organises live 'virtual seminars' which can be accessed online by interested participants (international start times are listed), and details of past seminars can be viewed by e mailing the centre to request an authorisation password. subjects of past seminars cover: civil society in China; rural life; marriage and migration; the young in contemporary China; and educational inequalities in China.
Part of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), the WUN China Center aims to combine the expertise of member institutions in the US, Great Britain, Australia, and China in order to reach a more thorough understanding of China and the Chinese through a cross-disciplinary approach. On the main page, users will find a textual introduction to the centre's aims and ideals, and can access links to staff members in participating universities (for example, UK members include The University of Bristol, The University of Leeds and The University of Sheffield, all leaders in East Asia research). The centre organises live 'virtual seminars' which can be accessed online by interested participants (international start times are listed), and details of past seminars can be viewed by e mailing the centre to request an authorisation password. subjects of past seminars cover: civil society in China; rural life; marriage and migration; the young in contemporary China; and educational inequalities in China.
Users will also find a list of past conferences and workshops organised
by the centre. The organisational impetus behind the centre and WUN is
The University of Leeds, UK, which is its main point of contact.
Although some sections of the website appear to be maintained more
often than others (the resources page, for example, needs to be filled,
whilst the virtual seminar page is updated frequently), the resource
remains valuable as an example of an innovative international, cross
disciplinary approach to the study of China, which is moving further
and further beyond the traditional 'Sinology' of the past.
From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.wun.ac.uk/chinacenter/index.html