Welcome
The Department of Chinese Languages and Literatures offers a wide range of courses on the languages, literatures and cultures of China. A focus of both teaching and research is on literature, whereby modern Chinese literature and Taiwanese literature have increasingly emerged as fields of research in recent years. The Department also provides most of the language and reading courses in Modern Chinese which are compulsory for students of the BA programme in East Asian Economics and Politics. Attached to the Department are the Richard Wilhelm Translation Centre and the Research Unit for Taiwanese Culture and Literature.
News
Conference of Fachverband Chinesisch
From September 13 to 15, 2012, the 17th Biennial Conference of Fachverband Chinesisch (Association for Chinese Language Teaching in German-speaking Countries) took place at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. For further information please visit our website.
Two writers from Taiwan visit Bochum
On Monday and Tuesday, June 18 and 19, the Research Unit hosted two prominent writers from Taiwan, Wu Mingyi 吳明益 and Wu Yinning 吳音寧. On Tuesday from 10 to 12 a.m., the two writers read passages from their books and answered listeners’ questions. The event was well attended and audience participation was lively. [Poster]