Himalayan Foundation's Sinological Cooperation Programs

1. Participation in the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchanges (Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchanges) to Sponsor Overseas Sinological Research

From 1997 to 1999, the Himalaya Foundation participated in the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchanges (Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchanges) to sponsor overseas Sinological research. The main cooperative projects include:

(1) subsidies for academic institutions;

(2) research programs;

(3) editing and publishing programs for scholars of Sinology from major universities in Europe, America, and Australia.

Cooperative grants in 1997:

1. Academic Institution Grants

The University of Melbourne (Australia)

The Establishment of a Chair in Chinese Regional Culture (with Emphasis on Chinese Culture). Regional Culture (with Emphasis on Taiwan)

2. Research Programs

Centre de la Recherche Scientifique (France)

Religion and Societies in South China: The Mei Mei Project

Religion and Societies in South China. Societies in South China: The Mei/Lu Networks

3. Editorial and Publication Programs

(1)Columbia University Press (USA)

Modern Chinese Fiction from Taiwan:

Modern Chinese Fiction from Taiwan. from Taiwan:

1945~A Translation Series of Modern

and Contemporary Taiwan Fiction and Poetry

(2)Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press (USA)

. Press (USA)

Shitao, His Late Life and Art Tropologies of Modernity Painting

Around 1700, by Jonathan Hay

Cooperative grant cases in 1998:

1. Research Programs

(1)Columbia University (USA)

The Rise in Single Parent Families in Taiwan: Implications for Policy Development

(2) Ecole Francaise de l'Estudiantie Ecole de l'Estudiantie (France) )Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient (France)

Water Control and Social Organization in North China

(3)Oxford University ( UK)

Local Society and Government in the Qing Dynasty

(4)British Library (UK)

The International Dunhuang Project: Database Expansion

(5)Chinese Technological University (Singapore)

Chinese Dialects in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan: Their Recent Development

Chinese Dialects in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Taiwan: Their Recent Development and Geographical Distribution

2. Editorial and Publication Programs

Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)

Chinese Statehood and Soviet Politics in Southeast Asia. Chinese Statehood and Soviet Politics in China: The Period of the Pacific War, 1941-1945

Cooperative grants in 1999:

1. Institutional grants Enhancement

(1)Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain)

Development of an Official Degree in Chinese Studies

(2)Macquarie University (Australia) Macquarie University (Australia)

Lectureship in the History of Chinese Science and Medicine

2. Washington (USA)

A Visual Sourcebook for Chinese Civilization

(2)Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (France)

(1) University of Washington (USA)

A Visual Sourcebook for Chinese Civilization

(2) Institut Supérieur d'Etudes Appliquées (France)

(3)Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut (Germany)

Chinese Historical Culture: Annotated Sources of Chinese

Historiography and Historical Thinking from the Beginnings to the Present

3. Edited Publication Programs

(1) Ohio State University (USA)

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

(2) Institut Ricci de Paris (France)

Le Grand Ricci (Le Grand Dictionary)

Le Grand Ricci (Le Grand Dictionary) is the first book in the world to be published. Ricci (Le Grand Dictionnaire Francais de la Langue Chinoise)

2. Ongoing series of symposiums on "The New Meaning of Chinese Civilization in the 21st Century"

The "New Meaning of Chinese Civilization in the 21st Century" series is a large-scale Sinological program promoted by the Himalayan Research and Development Foundation. The program has recruited Professor John Huang of National Taiwan University and Professor Li Hongqi of the City University of New York to serve as the facilitators of the program, and has invited Academician Li Yiyuan of Academia Sinica to serve as a volunteer advisor.

(1) Introduction

This project is based on the fact that the Chinese civilization has a long and deep history, and is a glorious epic in the experience of human civilization. As human civilization enters the third millennium, the global economy is shifting and reorganizing, and the value of "globalization" is becoming increasingly influential. How should Chinese culture connect with the values of today's world? How should Chinese culture connect with the values of today's world and contribute to the current world? In the twenty-first century, there is definitely a great significance and need for this! In the face of the challenge of modern values, how can Chinese culture find ways to adapt, innovate, and reinterpret its ideological traditions so that they can carry modern values? This "century-old" topic is the focus of this program.

This project, because of the vast scope of its research and the variety of its topics, will be conducted as a series of academic symposia, inviting scholars specializing in various branches of Chinese culture to write papers, with 20 papers to be presented at each symposium. The papers will be written for a general, university-educated readership, taking into account both scholarship and originality, with due attention to The papers will be written for a general college-educated audience, taking into account both scholarship and originality, and paying full attention to the readability of the papers. Each paper will try to incorporate the research results of current domestic and international academics on the topic of the paper, and will be revised and finalized after a full exchange of opinions by all participating scholars at the conference, and edited into a special book for publication.

(2) Website

In order to further promote the results of the program, the Himalayan Foundation has set up a website entitled "The New Significance of Chinese Civilization in the 21st Century", which contains detailed information on the agenda of the conference, background of the scholars, the papers, information about the conference, and the cooperating organizations. In addition, the summary discussions of the conference have been digitized and can be downloaded by the readers themselves to understand the highlights of the conference.

(3) Scope of Discussion

The tentative topics of this series of seminars are as follows, which will be further adjusted and revised after the research work is actually carried out.

1. Chinese Culture and the East Asian World

2. Dialogue and Interaction between Chinese Culture and Extraterritorial Cultures

3. Family Relationships and Interpersonal Ethics in Chinese Society

4. Beliefs, Religion, and Social Practices

5. Human Beings, Personality, and Education

6. Cultivation, the View of the Body, and Traditional Medicine

7. Origin and Development of Chinese Culture

8. Logic and Way of Thinking

9. Political Thought and Social Practice

10. Science, Technology and Ethics

11. Business Organization and Management Behavior

12. Literature and Aesthetics

13. Art Traditions and Their Modern Meanings

14. Culinary Culture

(4) Courses

In September 2002, a two-credit general education course, "Traditional Chinese Culture and Modern Values," was introduced at National Taiwan University. The course places special emphasis on the development of thought and culture, and enables students to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the value system of Chinese culture and its modern significance. The course covers important issues in the fields of Confucianism, aesthetics, and history in the Chinese cultural tradition, and analyzes the conflict between these traditional cultural values and modern values to guide students to think about the new meaning of Chinese civilization in the 21st century. The first and second volumes of the program's theses, "The Conflict and Integration of Traditional Chinese Culture and Modern Values," are important reference books for classroom teaching materials.

At present, about 300 people have taken the course, which will be videotaped in its entirety and posted on the website for promotion.

In March 2003, Taipei Medical University offered a two-credit seminar on "Traditional Chinese Culture and Modern Values" as an elective course for medical students to promote their understanding of the Chinese cultural value system, and this series of publications was also used as a teaching material for the course.

3. Participation in organizing a symposium on "Archaeology in the New Century: The Multiple Interactions of Culture, Location, and Ecology"

In November 2003, the Himalayan Foundation and the Institute of History and Language of Academia Sinica invited archaeologists from both sides of the Taiwan Straits to meet in Taipei to hold a symposium on archaeology in the new century to discuss the future of archaeology.

In November 2003, the Himalayan Foundation and the Institute of History and Language of Academia Sinica invited archaeologists from both sides of the Taiwan Strait to meet in Taipei to hold a symposium on archaeology in the new century, to discuss the direction of the future development of archaeology, and in particular, to pay attention to the interaction of multiple cultures, and the relationship between cultural location and the environment.

4. Queens Library (Queens Library) Sinology Book Center Project

Flushing, Queens, New York, has long had a large concentration of Chinese people living in Flushing, Queens, and the Queens Flushing Library Branch is one of the most active libraries in the U.S., the library in 1998 to respond to the needs of the community's growth, to increase the number of international centers. The International Center was added in 1998 in response to the growing needs of the community. The Himalayan Foundation assisted in the establishment of the International Center's Sinology Book Center in 1997 on a consulting basis.