East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds

Cantonese Opera in Global Context
Tue 9 Jun 2026 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Alec Clegg Studio, Stage@Leeds, LS2 9JT

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Select tickets – Cantonese Opera in Global Context – Alec Clegg Studio, Stage@Leeds Cantonese Opera in Global Context – Alec Clegg Studio, Stage@Leeds, Tue 9 Jun 2026 - We are delighted to welcome you to the Symposium on Cantonese Opera in Global Context, organised by Dr Xunnan Li as part of our collaboration with the Cantonese Opera Research Centre at Hong Kong Metropolitan Univ...

Author visit: Xiao Hai and Adrift in the South
Date: Thursday 4 June 2026, 3:30-5pm
Location: Baines Wing G.36, University of Leeds
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Select tickets – Xiao Hai: Adrift in the South – Baines Wing G.36 University of Leeds Xiao Hai: Adrift in the South – Baines Wing G.36 University of Leeds, Thu 4 Jun 2026 - In association with Granta literary magazine, we are delighted to be welcoming the poet and author Xiao Hai 小海, a leading voice of China's migrant worker literature movement to discuss his latest work, a mem...

It was a lovely Eye on Asia reception! Thank you to everyone who participated and made this event happen.

Eye (and ear) on Asia 👁️ 🌏 Thank you for all the wonderful clicks, performances and contributions, and congratulations to everyone participating in this artistic journey ✨📸 Visit the Language Zone to take a look at the pictures and discover which of them won the competition. Available until the 8th of May, 12-5pm. 📍The Language Zone, Parkinson Building #languagezoneleeds #eyeonasia #studentphotography #universityofleeds

The top 20 photos are on display in the exhibition at the Language Zone!

Applications for the 2027 MEXT Postgraduate Scholarship Programme are now open!

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The Chengdu-Leeds Poetry Exchange is approaching... | The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing We're counting down the days till Lines of Transport: The Chengdu-Leeds Poetry Exchange kicks off April. In anticipation of this event, which will bring twenty of China's leading poets -- including Xi Chuan, Wang Jiaxin, Jidi Majia, Bai Hua, and others -- together with eight Leeds-affiliated poets i...

Meet our wonderful finalists who reached the finals of the 21st Japanese Speech Contest for University Students at King's College London, on Saturday 7 March. Carol Pui Liu (JH Modern Languages , Level 3) competed as one of the five finalists in the Speech Category, and Ria Kosaka (JH Chinese & Japanese Studies, Level 1) competed as one of the five finalists in the Individual Presentation Category. They both gave excellent presentations - many congratulations to them both!

Taiwan Insight is doing a series of Taiwan Studies interviews. Here, Prof Fell discusses his time at Leeds 🙂

The Wrong Place at the Right Time Written by Aleksandrs Gross. Over the past two decades, Taiwan Studies has emerged in Europe as a rigorous and independent field. Examining the experiences of the field’s most influential scholars …

Prof Fell, our Leeds alumnus, has published a new book! He says 'In the new book on Taiwan's railway history I touch upon how the project started in my language year abroad at Leeds University and the earliest photograph I include in the volume is from that year, May 1990.'

The Twilight Years of Taiwan's Sugar Railways - Transport Treasury Publishing In their heyday, Taiwan’s sugar railways were the world’s most extraordinary narrow gauge industrial railway system. Its tracks criss-crossed southern and central Taiwan and the track length of 3,000 kilometres exceeded the national railway’s network. With sugar being Taiwan’s largest export...