Trinity Centre for Asian Studies

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Trinity Centre for Asian Studies
Location
Director
Prof. Nathan W. Hill
Staff
  • Ms Eunjee Do, adjunct Assistant Professor in Korean Studies
  • Dr Keiko Inoue, Japanese language instructor
  • Jiang Renfeng, Mandarin language instructor
  • Lu Xiaoxiang, Mandarin language instructor (on secondment from Fujian Normal University)
  • Prof. Xin Sun, Assistant Professor in Chinese Studies (Political Science)
Website www.tcd.ie/Asian/

The Trinity Centre for Asian Studies (TCAS) is a multidisciplinary teaching and research centre for East Asian scholarship at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.

Contents

TCAS includes teaching and research in Chinese, Korean and Japanese Studies as well as Asian area studies, pan-Asian and Asian/European comparative research. Its research activities focus on contemporary Asian society and culture, Mandarin, Korean and Japanese language learning, migrant and diaspora studies, and comparative studies.

The current director of TCAS is Nathan W. Hill.

Teaching and research

Chinese Studies

TCAS offers a two-year taught postgraduate degree (M.Phil.) in Chinese studies which focuses on the study of China in a contemporary, comparative perspective. [1] Trinity has a relationship with China dating back to TCD's 'Mission to the Far East' (1886) and the establishment of what was then called Trinity College Fuzhou [2] in 1907. This is now Fuzhou Foreign Language School, Fujian Normal University, and the two institutions maintain a bilateral partnership with teacher exchanges.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Trinity College Dublin was one of the first universities in Europe to welcome Chinese students, who mostly came from Beijing and Nanjing. The TCAS extramural Mandarin language programme has been running for the last two decades, and the TCAS also offers optional Mandarin language classes to all TCD undergraduates and postgraduates.

Trinity College offers two Government of Ireland International Scholarships for Chinese postgraduate students, offered in any of the university's postgraduate disciplines in Arts, Humanities, Social sciences, Science, Computer science, Engineering, Mathematics and Health Sciences. [3]

In 2014, Trinity signed a strategic partnership with Fudan University during the visit of the Irish President, Michael D. Higgins. [4] [5] The university has also signed Memoranda of Understanding with Beihang University, Peking University, Tsinghua University and the University of Nottingham Ningbo, offering bilateral study abroad opportunities for students in these universities.

Korean Studies

The Korean Studies programme at Trinity College commenced in 2010, with for-credit modules in Korean language and culture integrated within the undergraduate programme, as well as opportunities for postgraduate supervision. The programme has received support from the Korea Foundation for three consecutive years since 2011. [6]

Japanese Studies

The Japanese language programme at TCD has been running for several decades, with classes at three proficiency levels in Japanese language and culture. The Japan Foundation's [7] Grant Program for Japanese-language Education Activities [6] has supported the TCAS to offer credit-bearing Japanese modules which are fully integrated within the university's undergraduate programme. The university has signed Memoranda of Understanding with Tokyo University and Kyoto University, enabling Irish and Japanese students to study abroad. A very popular 'Arts of Japan' module is provided in the School of Histories and Humanities. [8]

Events and activities

Selected publications

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