EASt, ULB Centre for East Asian Studies

17/09/2026

Avec Coraline Jortay

🍵 ROUTES LITTÉRAIRES DU THÉ

🍉 Comment digérer le passé ?
Tantôt doux-amer, tantôt piquant, le roman « Le banquet aphrodisiaque » de Li Ang retrace l'histoire politique de Taïwan par le prisme de sa gastronomie, de la colonisation japonaise à la démocratisation.

À travers le regard de sa traductrice, Coraline Jortay, venez découvrir cette figure majeure de la littérature taïwanaise contemporaine.

Une rencontre ponctuée de lectures par un comédien de l'école dramatique du Cours Florent, et suivie d’une dégustation de thé.

« Le banquet aphrodisiaque » a été publié en 2023 aux éditions L'Asiathèque.

🫖 Dans le cadre du cycle "Routes littéraires du thé" en partenariat avec Le Thé des Ecrivains.

Vendredi 25 septembre à 17h
Maison Guimet
Tarif : 18 euros

Réservation sur : www.guimet.fr

15/09/2026

With the essay by EASt member Cai Chen : Queering Chinese in Africa: The Unintended Sexual Migration of Chinese Gay Men. https://doi.org/10.69131/GCP.05.01.2026.05

The new issue of Global China Pulse is out! Guest-edited by Mingwei Huang and Robert Wyrod, it tackles a key gap in Global China Studies: sustained attention to gender and sexuality. With research from Africa, South Asia, the Pacific, Europe, and China, contributors examine dispossession, precarity, labour, and intimacy across scales. Through intersectional and q***r analyses, they show how feminist perspectives illuminate the social processes and knowledge production behind Global China. Link in comments.

14/09/2026

📣 EASt in the media | How is China’s so-called “marriage squeeze” becoming entangled with new forms of cross-border matchmaking between China and Africa?

EASt researcher Cai Chen was recently interviewed by journalist Jevans Nyabiage for the South China Morning Post on the growing public attention surrounding Chinese men seeking wives in African countries and recent cases of marriage brokerage, fraud, and human trafficking in Malawi and Madagascar.

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Authorities clamp down on cross-border matchmaking schemes as lonely Chinese men look overseas after failing to find a bride at home.

14/09/2026

Il reste encore deux semaines avant la date limite ! ⏬

你好！Nǐ hǎo！Bonjour ! Merci de votre intérêt pour l'apprentissage du chinois. Bienvenue ! Les inscriptions aux modules d'automne 2026 des cours de chinois du soir de la Faculté des Lettres, de Traduction et de Communication de l'ULB sont ouvertes. Veuillez remplir ce formulaire pour toute...

14/09/2026

[Save the date!]

On the 7th of October, EASt organizes the start-of-the-year lunch-seminar, which will be presented by visiting professor Tadashi Hattori (Konan University), titled "Art or Something Else? Works by Persons with Disabilities in Japan, Past and Present"

You can still register until 1 October 2026!

For more information, click here:

Art or Something Else? Works by Persons with Disabilities in Japan, Past and PresentWith Prof. Tadashi HATTORI (Konan University)EASt kicks off the new academic year with a lunch-seminar by visiting professor Tadashi HATTORI, who will share his expertis...

11/09/2026

In the news | This week, EASt member Françoise Lauwaert was interviewed by RTBF on Mao Zedong, 50 years after his death. The interview looks back at Mao’s enduring place in China’s collective memory—and at the way his legacy was portrayed in the Western media.

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Recouvert d'un drapeau rouge, le corps embaumé de Mao repose dans la grande salle du peuple à Pékin. La télévision...

11/09/2026

Happening today!
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09/09/2026

🌏 In the spotlight!

Thierry Kellner and Vanessa Frangville from EASt share their insights in Le Vif on China’s influence on Mandarin teaching in Franco-Belgian classrooms.

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En 15 ans, le nombre d’établissements dispensant des cours de chinois a quadruplé en Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.

08/09/2026

📣 [Announcement] Upcoming EASt Seminar

On Friday, September 11, Coraline Goron (Duke Kunshan University) will give a lecture examining labor transition practices implemented in China during the Coal Overcapacity Reduction Campaign (2016–2020).

The seminar will explore the delicate balance between preventing social unrest during periods of industrial restructuring and pursuing long-term economic and social sustainability.

📍 ULB Solbosch Campus, Room UD.6.114

📅 Friday, September 11, 2026

🕐 15:00–16:50

💻 Hybrid format

We warmly invite you to join us for this timely discussion on labor, industrial restructuring, and social sustainability in contemporary China.

For more information, see: http://

by Coraline Goron, Duke Kunshan UniversityCalls for a “just transition” that balances climate goals with social justice have become central to global energy transition discussions. China, as the world’s largest coal producer faces the loss of 1.3 million coal-related jobs by 2030 a...

07/09/2026

📣 Study Day | Framing and Ethics of Exhibiting Works by Artists with Disabilities in Museums

How do museums frame and present art created by people with disabilities? What ethical questions arise from these exhibition practices?

Organized by Tadashi Hattori (Konan University) and Erwin Dejasse (ULB & KBR), this study day brings together scholars from Europe and Japan to critically examine the ways museums exhibit, interpret, and contextualize works by artists with disabilities.

📍 ULB Solbosch Campus — Building A, Room AY2.107

📅 September 10, 2026

🕐 13:00–18:00

Join us for an afternoon of discussion and critical reflection on the framing, ethics, and representation of disability in the museum.

For more information, link:

How should museums exhibit works created by people with disabilities today?Organized by Tadashi Hattori (Konan University), Erwin Dejasse (ULB & KBR)EASt research center (East Asian Studies, ULB)