Research Areas

The Department’s main focus is on Chinese intellectual history, Chinese literature of the medieval period, Chinese in Southeast Asia, Chinese grammar and dialects. With this strong teaching and research team, the Department is an important international centre in terms of both depth and breadth of research.

In recent years, the University has encouraged fuller development of research institutes or centres, paying more attention to research projects undertaken by both academic staff and postgraduates. In response to this new situation, the Department has taken positive measures to increase its enrolment of research students at home and abroad, and our colleagues have also stepped up their research efforts, which cover various academic areas, such as Chinese literature, language, history, philosophy, translation studies, and the Chinese in Southeast Asia.

A recent trend of research in the Department has been to strengthen interdisciplinary research and international collaboration. Not only have our academic works been published in influential journals or by major publishers in Singapore, Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, but some of them have also been published in international refereed journals in the West. This fact shows that the Department as a whole has attained an internationally recognized standard in terms of academic research.

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