Prof Wang Xiang of UIC's School of General Education has recently completed his research project that was funded by the National Social Science Fund of China.
Another two faculty members, Dr Li Yu (Faculty of Science and Technology) and Dr Xu Xi (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) have been granted funds from the Ministry of Education Projects of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Prof Wang Xiang
Prof Wang Xiang's research, Buddhist Manuscript Libraries in the History of Cultural Exchanges along the Silk Road, concentrates on the historical facts of religious contacts and information dissemination through books between China and the western section of the Silk Road, Central Asia, South Asia and Japan during the Writing Period. It is also the first global study focusing on Buddhist libraries from the Silk Road angle.
Dr Li Yu
Time Course of Phonological Representations in Speech and Print Processing is a programme led by Dr Li Yu and supported by the MOE. Adopting two research methods, event-related potential (ERPs) and Representational Similarity Analysis (RSA), it explores the relationship, differences and commonalities of using Chinese and phonological representations by observing native Chinese speakers and Chinese learners.
Dr Xu Xi
Funded by the MOE, Radio Broadcasting and Literary Modernism in Early 20th-Century Britain is a programme set up this year and led by Dr Xu Xi. It studies English modernist writers' broadcasting practices and radio narratives from the perspective of cross-media communication and global modernism. It is determined to arouse discussion and understanding of English modernist literature and promote interactions between literature and more disciplines such as media and anthropology.
From MPRO, FHSS, FST
Reporter: Cecilia Yu
Photo provided by interviewees and Season Li
Editor: Deen He
