China Postgraduate Network

APPLY Research Grant for Foreign Scholar in Chinese Studies
The Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) is currently accepting applications for research grants
in 2011. This grant is designed to assist foreign scholars in conducting research in Taiwan, the Republic of China. Assistance provided by CCS includes a monthly stipend, assistance with research materials, liaison with scholars and institutions in Taiwan, use of CCS facilities, and a direct round-trip economy-class ticket. Research tenure is from three months to one year. Deadline for applications is 31 May 2010. For more information please visit the CCS website.

APPLY Fulbright Student Fellowships for Master and Ph.D
The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy is pleased to announce the opportunity to compete for Fulbright Student Fellowships for graduate study in the United States leading to a Master's degree or a Ph.D. Fulbright Student Fellowship grants provide round-trip transportation to the United States, as well as tuition, fees and living expenses for full-time graduate study. Grant provisions do not include financial support for dependents. For more information please click here. The Fulbright Selection Committee will only accept online applications, which will be due by 11 June 2010.

CFP Workshop: New Perspectives on the Early PRC Columbia University, New York
The Weatherhead East Asia Institute at Columbia University will host a workshop in late Spring of 2011 on the early People's Republic of China, particularly focusing on the years before the Great Leap Forward (1949-1958) In preparation for the workshop we would like to hear from students whose work might contribute to the project and faculty whose students are engaged in work of the kind described below. If your research (regardless of discipline) engages with the history of the early PRC please write to us and join our preliminary dialogue on the workshop and 1950s-related research: Anatoly Detwyler (ad2515@columbia.edu), PhD candidate-Modern Chinese Literature; Arunabh Ghosh (ag2451@columbia.edu), PhD candidate-Modern Chinese History.

APPLY Lectureship in Chinese entrepreneurship at King's College London
Kings College London is looking for a Lecturer to join the newly established King's China Institute. Closing date: 29th March 2010. For more details please click here.

APPLY Research Position at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
The Translation and Interpreting Departament of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) is seeking for candidates to apply for a 5 year position as researcher in East Asian Studies. The Scholarship is through the Spanish Ministry programme Ramon y Cajal. Candidates should have a PhD after year 2000 and have done postdoctoral research stages for at least 24 months. For details please click here. If you are interested in this position or if you have any doubts, please contact <pilar.sanchez.gijon@uab.cat>.

APPLY 2010 Confucius Institute Scholarships, University of Manchester
The scholarships support applicants in studying either an MA degree in Teaching Chinese as Second Language, or non-degree programme of one semester or one year in Humanities, Education, History, Chinese Medicine as well as Chinese language. To qualify for a place on a course under the Scholarship
scheme, applicants are required to have some Chinese and the decision is at the discretion of the receiving institute. You can find the application procedures on our website. The deadline is Friday 19 March 2010.

CFP 15th International Meeting of CHIME (The European Foundation for Chinese Music Research), 24 to 28 November 2010, Basel, Switzerland
How does musical theory in China and East Asia differ from musical theory elsewhere in the world? What are its unique contributions to culture and to musical performance? How can we meaningfully integrate theory and practice in the (many) cases where theory and performance practice clash? These questions form the theme of the 15th International CHIME meeting. Scholarly proposals for individual papers, panels and poster presentations are welcomed. Abstracts of up to 300 words for individual (20-minute) papers and for posters should be sent by e-mail to the Dutch main office of the CHIME Foundation, c/o Programme Committee of the 15th CHIME Meeting, P.O.Box 11092, 2301 EB Leiden, The Netherlands, e-mail address: chime@wxs.nl. In the case of panel proposals we ask for a short description of the panel topic as well as for individual abstracts by the panel participants. Abstracts must have reached us by 15 May 2010.

APPLY Dissertation Workshop: "Gender and Sexuality in Modern East Asia", 2-3 June 2010
The Illinois/Indiana East Asia National Resource Center Consortium (IL/IN East Asia NRC) is pleased to announce its fourth annual IL/IN National Dissertation Workshop in the field of gender and sexuality. Doctoral students in the humanities and the social sciences whose dissertation projects concern gender and sexuality in modern East Asia are invited to apply. The workshop will be limited to eight participants, and the cost of the workshop, some meals, and two nights' lodging will be covered by the IL/IN East Asia NRC. Applicants must be enrolled full-time in a doctoral program and must have drafted a dissertation research proposal, although they need not have advanced to candidacy. The application deadline is March 1. For more information please click here.

APPLY IV Post-Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference: Whose Rights? How Right? 13th of March 2010
This is a student led conference at University of Warwick for all post-graduates in the social and political sciences and humanities. The conference theme concerns 'rights'. From rights claimed on the basis of humanity to those relating to a specific group in a specific setting: are rights so ubiquitous that they are rendered meaningless? What does it mean to have rights, morally and/or legally? To register please click here.

CFP The Third China Postgraduate Network Annual Conference, 8-9 April 2010, Oxford
The conference provides an environment for postgraduates to present their ideas or papers and receive feedback from other students and scholars in the field. Keynote speakers include Prof John Knight (Oxford), Mr Wei Jinsheng (Counsellor of the State Council of China), Prof Zhang Kaiti (China Research Centre for the Ageing). The conference is open to postgraduates and scholars in any discipline whose work engages or relates to China or China Studies. Please submit an abstract no longer than 300 words and a short bio by 28 February 2010 to <taichang.chen@sociology.ox.ac.uk>.

APPLY University of Oxford, graduate scholarship opportunities
In addition to the general graduate scholarships awarded by the Faculty of Oriental Studies and individual Colleges, there are a handful of full and partial scholarships dedicated to Chinese Studies at selected colleges. For more information about programmes and admissions go to <http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/ea/chinese/chinese_graduate.html> and <http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/general/graduate_admissions.html>

Pembroke College (Oxford): Stanley Ho Scholarship in Chinese Studies
Pembroke College proposes to award a scholarship of £9,000 per annum to a person in the area of Chinese studies in the academic year beginning 2010. Applicants should have been accepted to read a research degree at Oxford University and at Pembroke College and should indicate their wish to apply for the scholarship with their application and notify the Admissions & Access Officer at Pembroke by 1 May 2010. For more information please, click here.

The Pembroke College (Oxford): Gordon Aldrick Scholarship in Chinese Cultural Studies
The Gordon Aldrick Scholarship, associated with Pembroke College, offers £5,000 per annum, tenable for up to three years. This is open to graduates beginning research in an area of Chinese cultural studies. For more information, please click here.

University College (Oxford): The Edwin Arnold Scholarship in Chinese Studies (in association with the Davis Fund of the Oriental Studies Faculty)
University College and the Oriental Studies Faculty are offering a joint graduate scholarship available to new applicants for the D.Phil or to the M.St. Applicants must work on either Traditional or Modern China in the Humanities. The total value of the scholarship is £9,000 per annum, for up to three years. Those wishing to be considered for the Edwin Arnold Scholarship must state this at the end of the research proposal section of their application, to be submitted in the usual way by the application deadline of 12 March 2010. The successful candidate will be offered a place by University College and membership of the College will be a condition of the award. For more information, please click here.

APPLY Scholarship Opportunities at the White Rose East Asia Centre
The White Rose East Asia Centre is able to offer two ESRC funded scholarships in East Asian Studies. The first, based at the University of Sheffield, is for 3 years for a PhD in Japanese Studies. Please contact Professor Glenn Hook (g.hook@sheffield.ac.uk) or Professor Hugo Dobson (h.dobson@sheffield.ac.uk) for further details. The second, based at the University of Leeds, is for a two year programme of MA studies in the area- of Chinese Studies. This could be for a taught MA followed by a research MA or two years of taught MA studies. Please contact Dr Heather Zhang (eashz@leeds.ac.uk) or Jenni Rauch (j.s.rauch@leeds.ac.uk) for further information. Details of both scholarships are available here. Deadline for applications 12 March 2010.

APPLY Scholarship Opportunities at Leeds
The University of Leeds is also able to offer an AHRC scholarship under the Research Preparation Master’s Scheme. This scholarship supports students undertaking Masters’ courses that focus on advanced study and research training explicitly intended to provide a foundation for further research at doctoral level. Awards are normally for one year's full time study or two years' part-time study. Please contact Dr Heather Zhang (eashz@leeds.ac.uk) for more information. Deadline for applications: 31 March 2010.

APPLY East Asian Studies Scholarships
The Universities of Leeds and Sheffield are also interested in hearing from candidates interested in applying for the ESRC open competition +3 or 1+3 scholarship in the field of East Asian Studies. For further information, please contact at Leeds Mrs Karen Priestley (k.f.priestley@leeds.ac.uk) or at Sheffield Dr Lili Chen (l.chen@sheffield.ac.uk) Deadline for applications: 15 March 2010. Details of other scholarship opportunities at the University of Sheffield can be found here.

JOB Junior Professor (W 1), Didactics of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (TCAFL) Faculty of Humanities, Göttingen University, Germany
The Faculty of Humanities at Göttingen University invites applications for a junior pro-fessorship (W1) in the Didactics of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (starting date 1 October 2010). The successful candidates will either have a PhD degree in TCAFL or in other relevant disciplines (e.g. linguistics focusing on Chinese) or fields (e.g. Chinese Studies with a specialization in linguistics or the didactics of foreign language teaching) and possess abundant, well-documented experience in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Fluency in German and modern standard Chinese (Mandarin) is required. Further information is available here. Applications should be submitted within six weeks after the publication of this advertisement and should be accompanied by a CV, a list of publications and courses taught, and should be addressed to the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Göttingen University, Humboldtallee 17, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany.

APPLY Summer School-Advance Notice of 5 fully funded places
The law school at the University of Warwick is holding a summer school between 5th-10th July 2010. The summer school will bring together doctoral students from law, women’s studies, politics, sociology and anthropology (or appropriate disciplinary backgrounds) working on interdisciplinary gender and law issues in relation to development. We have made available 5 fully funded residential places for doctoral students presently studying in the UK with interests in this area who would like to contribute to the school. If you are interested please provide in no more than 500 words by 12 March 2010 by email to Jenny Wilson <J.C.Wilson@warwick.ac.uk>. For more information please click here.

CFP BACS Conference 2010
The British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS) will hold its annual conference at the University of Bristol, 8-9 September 2010, at which Professor Jonathan Spence has agreed to be a keynote speaker. We welcome panel and paper proposals in any field of Chinese Studies. We are especially keen to attract panel proposals that bring a group of scholars together to discuss a major issue in the study of China. All proposals should include: name(s), affiliation and contact details (email). Proposals for panels should include: list of proposed presenters; list of titles of individual papers; abstracts of each paper (up to 250 words); proposed chair/moderator, discussant, if relevant. Proposals for papers should include: title of paper and abstract of up to 250 words. All rpoposals should be submitted by 30 April 2010 to <daniel.holloway@area.ox.ac.uk>.

CONFERENCE Plurilingual and Pluricultural Education: Focus on Languages of the Wider World, 19th – 20th February 2010
Brunei Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. For full details, to register and to pay, please click here.

APPLY SOAS Vacancy: Lecturer in modern Chinese culture and language, closing date 26 February 2010
Anyone who has any inquiries about the position should feel free to contact Michel Hockx (Chair, Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia, SOAS) at <mh17[at]soas.ac.uk>. For full details, please click here.

APPLY AHRC doctoral studentship in Chinese Studies at Nottingham
The School of Contemporary Chinese Studies (SCCS) at the University of Nottingham will offer an AHRC Asian Language Culture Doctoral Award for commencement in September 2010. The award is open to UK and EU applicants. It provides fees and an annual stipend of GBP 13,290. We invite proposals for research in the humanities related to China. Applicants must have sufficient Chinese to be able to conduct research in Chinese and other relevant languages for the research proposed. The University has a two stage process. Before 1 March, all applicants must obtain at least a conditional offer from the SCCS and submit an application form to the Graduate School. Further details can be obtained from the Research Director, Dr Stephen Morgan: <s.morgan[at]nottingham.ac.uk>

APPLY Research Assistant for Han exhibition at Cambridge, UK
University of Cambridge and the Fitzwilliam Museum is looking for a Research Assistant for their Han exhibition. Please direct enquiries to Dr James Lin (jcsl3@cam.ac.uk). For more information please click here. Closing date: 25 February 2010

APPLY University of Westminster PhD scholarship in Asian Studies (Contemporary China)
The School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Language is currently advertising a PhD scholarship in Asian Studies (Contemporary China), to start in October 2010. For further particulars, please click here. Closing date: 19 February 2010.

APPLY PhD Funding Opportunities at Manchester
Applications are invited for full-time doctoral studentships in Politics at the University of Manchester. Amongst the range of opportunities available are two ESRC Quota Award (1+3/+3) as well as several studentships funded by the School of Social Sciences. Detailed information about what is available and how to apply can be found found at http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/politics/postgraduate/funding/ and http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/. Closing date: 1 March 2010

APPLY Postgraduate Studentships at Newcastle University
Studentships are available in the following programmes: 6 studentships for the School of Modern Languages (open to all Masters and PhD students and to students of all nationalities). 1 studentship for a full MA in the School of Modern Languages (open to all Masters students). Additionally, the School of Modern Languages in cooperation with the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences will be offering one full Masters studentship for any of the taught Masters programmes listed above and for MLitt students. This studentship is open to students of all nationalities and will be worth the equivalent of UK/EU tuition fees (£4320) plus a maintenance grant (tbc, around £8,700). Deadline for applications for all School Studentships: 25 June 2010

APPLY Newcastle University International Postgraduate Scholarship (NUIPS) awards (open to all international PG students)
Over 100 Newcastle University International Postgraduate Scholarship (NUIPS) awards are available for international students in the 2010-11academic year. Each scholarship will have a value of £1,500 per year, payable towards tuition fees in the first instance. Deadline for applications for NUIPS: early May 2010 (tbc)

APPLY AHRC Block Grant Partnership Funding for Translation Masters at Newcastle
open for PG students in Linguistics, Professional Translation and Iberian Studies Under the Block Grant Partnership Scheme, funding is available for one Professional Preparation Masters in Translation and/or Interpreting and one PhD in Iberian Studies in 2011/12. Linguistics has one doctoral award for 2010/11. For terms and conditions see the websites of the Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language science. AHRC awards are available to UK or EU nationals. EU nationals qualify for fees only awards.
Deadline for applications for this year’s Linguistics award: end of February 2010

CFP "The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Chinese Hayek Society," Shue Yan University, Hong Kong, August 6-7, 2010
The Chinese Hayek Society will organize its sixth annual meeting with the Department of Economics and Finance, Shue Yan University in Hong Kong on August 6-7, 2010. The theme of the conference is "The Relevance of F.A. Hayek on China's Economy and Society." The conference invites proposals for papers on related topics. Deadline for proposals: March 1, 2010. For details about the meeting, click here.

CFP Gender and forced migration in China
The Italian online journal of studies on women's memory "Deportees, Exiles, Refugees" (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) announces this call for papers for a special issue on the theme "Gender and forced migration: displaced women in contemporary China". The deadline for the submission of abstracts is March 31st, 2010. For more information please email <dep7@unive.it> and <degiorgi@unive.it> .