Research in AsiaRes

Projects:

• The Changing Image of Man in Tang-, Song- and Ming-China
• Research Library for East Asian studies

The Changing Image of Man in Tang-, Song- and Ming-China

Joint trilateral research-project

Directors:

• Sher-shiueh Li (research fellow, Academia Sinica, Taipei)
• Loreta Poškaite (associate professor, Center of Oriental Studies, Vilnius)
• Frank Kraushaar (research fellow, AsiaRes, Riga)

The project was iniciated in 2008 and will be completed by the end of 2011. It makes a first effort in uniting research in the field of the humanities between Latvia, Lithuania and Taiwan. In the centre of the activities is a common interest in the evolution of Chinese approaches towards a modern concept of basic human identity in literary, religous, philosophical and gender contexts. The final results are expected to be published in 2011/12 in a separate volume of Acta Orientalia Vilnensia (Vilnius).

More info on this project

Research Library for East Asian studies

The Research Library for East Asian studies is a project realised by AsiaRes in cooperation with its main partners, the National Library of Latvia (LNB), Taiwan's Chiang-Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (CCKF) and other academic contributors. The goal of the project is to enhance the academic infrastructure of East Asian studies in the Baltic region by building the most comprehensive public research library in the Baltic states. At present the library contains about three thousand volumes, two third of them in Western languages and almost one third in Chinese, contemporary and classical. Other East Asian languages, first of all Japanese and Korean, will be collected as soon as cooperations with partner organisations in these countries are established.

Library resources consist of recent academic literature in fields on which AsiaRes members do their research (comparative literature, comparative philosophy, critique of literary translation, buddhism, tibetology) as well as of primary sources in East Asian languages. By summer 2012 the library will also provide a selection of excellent academic journals in Western and East Asian languages. A provisory list of contents is available on this webpage until the libraries funds will be catagolised and integrated into the LNB's catalogue system. In September 2013 the library will move from its present location at the Faculty of Humanities, Visvalza street 4a, 1050 Riga, room 105, to the new building of the LNB at the shore of the Daugava vis-a-vis to the old-town of Riga.