The project focuses on the idea of 'nation' at the turn of the twentieth century, as discussed by prominent Chinese politicians/historians/philosophers.read more
The Fengzeng system is an important part of the ancient Chinese bureaucratic system. However, until now, academic research on this topic has remained scarce. PhD student Sun Jian selected it ...read more
MP3 is an ongoing 'open' relational database that operates as the basic research tool ('laboratory') for those members of the UGent Mamluk team that use prosopographical, sociographical and discourse-oriented methodologies; ...read more
This research focuses on relevance marking in lectures. On the basis of an analysis of lectures from the British Academic Spoken English (BASE) corpus, the lexicogrammatical devices are identified that ...read more
Research into the role of the late medieval culture of Memoria in the strengthening of religious communal life in the southern Low Countries (1350-1550), with a special focus on communities ...read more
Research project, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), joining scholars from the universities of Groningen, Ghent, Amsterdam (VU), Utrecht, Tilburg, and Leuven and aiming at elaborating new ...read more
The PhD project studies the attractiveness of denoting oneself a lay Buddhist in contemporary urban Taiwan. It is based on an analysis of lay Buddhist self-construction within the context of social change ...read more
This PhD project studies animal symbolism as used in fantastic literature in eighteenth century China. It mainly focuses on human characteristics attributed to animals, and to the interrelation of animals ...read more