Language and Culture for the New Generation of Leading Researchers in East Asian Studies: Partnerships, Networks and Training

在AHRC第一阶段资助活动的基础上，WREAC在第二阶段继续通过发展其PGR/ECR语言和方法培训提供，巩固与英国内外其他学术机构的伙伴关系，包括与其他LBAS中心的更密切合作，建立、培养和维持基于语言的地区研究的国家能力。发展新的研究网络和知识交流伙伴关系，更加重视艺术和人文学科，以传播其研究成果，并加强其研究的影响。WREAC的活动将分为三个方面：(1)东亚的身份与文化：重点关注(a)中国戏剧和表演；在这个国际性的、基于实践的网络的基础上，该项目将进一步建立PGR能力，在网络活动中传播研究成果，并开发一个主要的电子资源，包括一系列中国戏剧和作品的电影、摄影和视频、评论和中国戏剧艺术研究院（北京）的档案材料；(b)中国作者、作者身份和权威：通过研究不同历史时期中国作者身份概念的研究人员组成的新网络，该项目质疑以欧洲为中心的作者身份叙事，并将为研究人员、学生和实践作者提供动态的在线资源；(c)一个关于东亚（及其他地区）记忆的国际（和跨lbas）网络将关注社区如何使用文本、物质文化、公共事件和表演作为调解混乱的过去或快速的社会变革的手段。(2)跨文化接触和全球化：在文化外交/软实力的广泛标签下，这一分支的一个要素考虑了东亚国际关系中非正式行动者的作用，而另一个要素考虑了中国、日本和韩国软实力的各个方面及其在世界其他地区的影响。亚洲宗教的主题形成了另一个元素，通过与BICC在一个网络上的合作，探索在社会变革背景下亚洲宗教权威的变化形式。(3)中文和日语语言和文化培训网络：这部分在我们提供的培训内容的基础上，进一步扩大对外汉语教学研究生导师的国际网络，一方面为导师举办国际会议，另一方面为学生主持研讨会；此外，教学和培训资源，以及代表对外汉语领域前沿研究的编辑卷将是重要的产出。在日语培训方面，我们将为PGT/PGR学生建立我们的在线材料收集，通过包括数字材料和新的学习工具，促进学生向自主、自我激励的学习过渡。“舞台中国”和“书写中国”项目还将包括大量的语言和文化培训元素，以在线双语资源的形式，针对高级汉语学习者和非学术用户。

Building upon the activities of the first phase of AHRC funding, WREAC continues, in the second phase, to build, nurture and sustain national capacity in Language-Based Area Studies by developing its PGR/ECR language and methods training provision, consolidating its partnerships with other academic institutions within and beyond the UK, including closer collaboration with other LBAS centres, and developing new research networks and knowledge exchange partnerships with a greater renewed focus on the arts and humanities to disseminate its research, as well as enhance the impacts of its research. WREAC's activities will be organised under three strands: (1) Identities and Cultures in East Asia: focuses on (a) Chinese theatre and performance: building on the work of this international, practice-based network, the project will build further PGR capacity, disseminate research findings at network events, and develop a major electronic resource including film, photography and video of a series of Chinese plays and productions, critical commentary, and archival material from the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts (Beijing); (b) Chinese authors, authorship and authority: through a new network of researchers working on concepts of authorship in China across different historical timeframes, the project questions the Eurocentric narrative on authorship and will provide a dynamic online resource for researchers, students and practising authors; and (c) an international (and cross-LBAS) network on memory in East Asia (and beyond) will focus on how communities use texts, material cultures, public events and performances as a means of mediating troubled pasts or rapid social change.(2) Cross-cultural Encounters and Globalisation: under the broad label of cultural diplomacy/soft power, one element of this strand considers the role of informal actors in East Asian international relations, while another considers various aspects of Chinese, Japanese and Korean soft power and its influence in other parts of the world. The theme of religions in Asia forms another element, through collaboration with BICC on a network which explores changing forms of religious authority in Asia against a backdrop of social change. (3) Networks in Chinese and Japanese language and cultural training: this strand builds on the training element of our provision by expanding further the international network of supervisors of research students in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (TCSL), with an international conference for supervisors on the one hand, and a student-led symposium on the other; in addition, resources for teaching and training purposes, and an edited volume representing cutting-edge research in the field of TCSL will be important outputs. In Japanese language training, we will build up our collection of online materials for PGT/PGR students, facilitating the transition to self-directed, self-motivated study with the inclusion of digital materials and new learning tools. The Staging China and Writing Chinese projects will also include substantial language and cultural training elements in the form of online, bilingual resources aimed, in both cases, at advanced learners of Chinese, as well as non-academic users.