Talk: Uyghur Discourse of Nation and National Interest

26/12/2015 Tana Dluhosova Events, News, Taiwan

Abstract The talk explores the emergence of national consciousness and nationalist ideology of Uyghurs in Xinjiang from c. 1900-1949. Drawing from texts written by modern Uyghur intellectuals, politicians and propagandists throughout this period, the talk identifies diverse types of Uyghur discourse on the nation and national interest, and traces...

TALK: Oliver Weingarten – Some Structural Factors Facilitating Textual Memory in Ancient Writing

22/12/2015 Tana Dluhosova Events, News, Taiwan

Time: 9:30–11:00 Venue: Chinese Department of Tsinghua University, Hsin-chu Abstract: 此次演講將討論先秦至西漢文獻中的一些與古典學學者 Alessandro Vatri 在古希臘文獻裡所指出的有益於記憶的文本結構與文筆特徵 (“mnemonic facilitators”)...

Visit to the Reading Festival, National Central Library (Taiwan)

Visit to the Reading Festival, National Central Library (Taiwan)

05/12/2015 Tana Dluhosova News, Taiwan

On December 5, 2015 Dr. Ondřej Beránek, director of the Oriental Institute, participated in the Reading Festival and contributed with opening...

Visit to the National Central Library (Taiwan)

Visit to the National Central Library (Taiwan)

04/12/2015 Tana Dluhosova News, Taiwan

  On December 4, 2015 Dr. Ondřej Beránek and other OI researchers visited National Central Library (Taiwan). The Oriental Institute in cooperation with National Central Library operates the Taiwanese Center for Chinese Studies. We are happy to announce that the Library is considering to help us with promotion of their online resources and...

Opening of the Research Center in Taiwan

Opening of the Research Center in Taiwan

03/12/2015 orient Events, News, Taiwan

On December 3, 2015, the Research Center of the Oriental Institute (Czech Academy of Sciences) at Academia Sinica in Taiwan (RCT) has been established. Prof. Wang Fan-sen, the vice-president of the Academia Sinica, Prof. Huang Chin-shing, the director of the Institute of History and Philology, and Dr. Beránek, the director of the Oriental...