Four research centres affiliated under the Faculty of Arts:
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Centre for Chinese Classical Learning
With the generous donation of HK$10 million from the Fung Sun Kwan Chinese Arts Foundation, the Chinese University of Hong Kong has established the new Centre for Chinese Classical Learning (the Centre) under the Faculty of Arts. The donation will be used to support the operation of the Centre in the first five years and for the promotion of Chinese classical learning and traditional Chinese values and virtues. The Centre, which was established in March 2015, is an important education hub for promoting the beauty of traditional Chinese culture and virtues, and facilitating whole-person development of students.
The Centre will regularly organize lectures and seminars on Chinese culture, and offer credit-bearing General Education courses for students. To promote Chinese classical learning to a wider population, the Centre will also launch recreational and cultural activities and programmes related to Chinese classics and traditional values in collaboration with different organizations.
Please visit the Centre's website for information.
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Centre for the Study of Humanistic Buddhism
In 2004, CUHK and the Foguang Shan Foundation for Buddhist Culture reached an agreement of cooperation to establish the Centre for the Study of Humanistic Buddhism (the Centre). The Centre was originally established under the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies and was officially affiliated under the Faculty of Arts since August 2014.
The Centre aims at promoting Buddhist education and academic researches of Humanistic Buddhism and nourishing Buddhist scholars. Over the years, the Centre has organized several international conferences and published several volumes of academic journals. These contributions win a good reputation among the academic and Buddhist circles.
Please visit the Centre's website for information.
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Centre for the Study of Religious Ethics and Chinese Culture
The centre is jointly established by Guangdong Zhongbo Academy of Buddhist Cultural Propagation and the Chinese University of Hong Kong under the Faculty of Arts, as a unique hub for conducting comparative and multidisciplinary research on ethical issues related to the religions in Chinese context.
The centre’s major activities include conducting research projects on relevant issues, organizing international conference on particular ethical issues and arranging open lectures for the general public. These activities aim to strengthen collaboration between religious and academic circles, and to promote research on religious ethics and Chinese culture.
Please visit the Centre's website for information.
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CUHK-BLCU Joint Research Centre for Chinese Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
The centre is jointly established by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU). The mission of the Center is to develop further the newly established stylistic-register grammar, prosodic grammar and Trinitarian grammar in linguistics and to apply linguistic theorems and methods into Chinese language teaching not only for L2 learners but also for first language learners.
A wide range of activities and research will be organized by the Centre, including exchange of scholars, student exchanges, collaborative research, exchange of academic materials.
Please visit the Centre's website for information.
Each department under the Faculty of Arts has also established its own research centres and laboratories:
Department of Anthropology
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Department of Chinese Language and Literature
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Department of Cultural and Religious Studies
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Department of English
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Department of History
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Department of Japanese Studies
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Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages
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Department of Music
Department of Philosophy
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