East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds

09/05/2026

It was a lovely Eye on Asia reception! Thank you to everyone who participated and made this event happen.

26/04/2026

The top 20 photos are on display in the exhibition at the Language Zone!

22/04/2026

Applications for the 2027 MEXT Postgraduate Scholarship Programme are now open!

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01/04/2026

Open to everyone to participate!

14/03/2026

We're counting down the days till Lines of Transport: The Chengdu-Leeds Poetry Exchange kicks off April. In anticipation of this event, which will bring twenty of China's leading poets -- including Xi Chuan, Wang Jiaxin, Jidi Majia, Bai Hua, and others -- together with eight Leeds-affiliated poets i...

11/03/2026

Meet our wonderful finalists who reached the finals of the 21st Japanese Speech Contest for University Students at King's College London, on Saturday 7 March. Carol Pui Liu (JH Modern Languages , Level 3) competed as one of the five finalists in the Speech Category, and Ria Kosaka (JH Chinese & Japanese Studies, Level 1) competed as one of the five finalists in the Individual Presentation Category. They both gave excellent presentations - many congratulations to them both!

09/03/2026

Taiwan Insight is doing a series of Taiwan Studies interviews. Here, Prof Fell discusses his time at Leeds 🙂

Written by Aleksandrs Gross. Over the past two decades, Taiwan Studies has emerged in Europe as a rigorous and independent field. Examining the experiences of the field’s most influential scholars …

11/11/2025

Prof Fell, our Leeds alumnus, has published a new book! He says 'In the new book on Taiwan's railway history I touch upon how the project started in my language year abroad at Leeds University and the earliest photograph I include in the volume is from that year, May 1990.'

In their heyday, Taiwan’s sugar railways were the world’s most extraordinary narrow gauge industrial railway system. Its tracks criss-crossed southern and central Taiwan and the track length of 3,000 kilometres exceeded the national railway’s network. With sugar being Taiwan’s largest export...

11/09/2025

Shuang Xuetao 双雪涛 at Leeds
Date: Wednesday 17 September 2025, 3:30 - 5:45 pm
Venue: Clothworkers Cinema

This event is free but please reserve your place here at: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/theleedscentrefornewchinesewriting/1857554

In association with Granta literary magazine, we're very excited to be welcoming renowned Chinese author Shuang Xuetao 双雪涛 to Leeds, to talk about his writing and the screen adaptations of his work. After the discussion with the author, we will be screening an episode of a TV adaptation of par...

29/05/2025

Malaysian Chinese Literature: Global Visions from the Margins
Date: Wednesday 11 June 2025, 4.30-5.30pm
Location: University of Leeds, Parkinson Building Room B.09

All welcome!

We're delighted to welcome Dr Chan Cheow Thia, assistant professor of Chinese studies at the National University of Singapore, to Leeds to talk about his book Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature.

20/05/2025

Event title: Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin
Date: Tue 27 May 2025 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: The Event Space at The Leeds Library, LS1 6AL
This event is free of charge, but please register at the link below.

We're delighted to be joined by author Curtis Chin to talk about his hugely popular memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in ...