Welcome

Welcome to the Department of Chinese Language and Culture (ChinA), Germany's oldest institute for Sinology and, to this day, one of its largest. With two full professors, a Junior Professor, two lecturers and a range of additional teaching staff, ChinA provides a sound and manifold introduction to China's language and culture both past and present.


Academic Program

The academic program in the Department of Chinese Language and Culture is designed to impart expert knowledge of modern and classical Chinese and well-founded knowledge about Chinese culture and society in a concentrated fashion. It also teaches students how to use this knowledge. ChinA offers degrees at the B.A., Master's, Magister Artium as well as Ph.D. levels, although the program doesn't end there: it also prepares students to pursue careers in the most diverse professional fields, from business and culture to media and academia.

Research

ChinA aims to represent the entire spectrum of Sinology scholarship. Accordingly, its members have a very wide range of research interests, from the beginnings of Chinese civilization in the first century B.C. to transformations in the 20th and 21st centuries and from classical Chinese philosophy to modern humanities. They encompass historical and philological questions as well as cultural, literary and art-historical topics.