Welcome to the Asian Studies Centre at the University of Münster

The Asian Studies Centre is based at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Münster and was founded in 2024. It aims at networking scholars, students, and employees interested in Asia, who do research on Asia, or who are from Asia, to bundle their wide-ranging interests and competencies and make use of otherwise unknown synergies. [more]

Academic collaboration with the PRC

Globe on a book
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Since academic collaboration with China has recently become a challenge and raises questions that cannot always be answered, we have collected valuable information which might render some assistance. [see more]

News & events

| ESRA lecture series
17.07.26 ESRA lecture Wang17.07.26 ESRA lecture Wang
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Lecture by Dr. Yizhou Wang

Emerging Scholars Research Asia (ESRA)

As part of the "Emerging Scholars Research Asia (ESRA)" series, Dr. Yizhou Wang from Hong Kong Chu Hai College will give a talk on Friday, 17 July 2026, at 10 AM c.t., on the topic "Reconsidering Ming-Qing Representations of Nature through the Lens of the 'Little Ice Age'". The lecture is being held in cooperation with the Emmy Noether research group "Traces of the 'Little Ice Age' in early modern German Literature (LitLIA)". All interested parties are warmly welcome!

| Job vacancy
Student assistant wantedStudent assistant wanted
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Student assistant wanted

Application deadline: 30 June 2026

The Asian Studies Centre is looking for a student assistant (8 hours per week) to start as soon as possible.

| Lecture series
Poster Sinological Lectures Münster summer semester 2026Poster Sinological Lectures Münster summer semester 2026
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Sinological Lectures Münster

Summer semester 2026

As part of the "Sinological Lectures Münster" series, the Institute of Sinology and East Asian Studies cordially invites all interested parties to a lecture.