I. Introduction
In response to the key indicators and main initiatives proposed in the school's "14th Five-Year Plan", which includesthe internationalization of the university’s strategy, talent cultivation, scientific and technological innovation, and talent teams, and in line with the tasks and ideas outlined in the school's "14th Five-Year Plan", such as "utilizing international educational resources and international standards to build undergraduate and graduate curriculum systems compatible with world-class universities, and to cultivate students' international awareness and intercultural communication skills," this research centre aims to build a team of young and middle-aged faculty members specializing in comparative literature and intercultural studies.
Purposes:
The centre aims to provide specific channels and platforms for faculty members to share academic information and intellectual exchanges, effectively enhancing their academic levels.
It will support disciplinary development, incubate more innovative academic achievements, and improve the centre's disciplinary innovation capabilities and influence.
It also aims to achieve sustained, stable, and coordinated development in scientific research and disciplinary construction.
The centre will encourage faculty to implement research-oriented teaching models and actively engage in scientific research.
It will strengthen the centre's social services, aiming to provide consulting and training services to the government or enterprises through the centre's research capabilities.
Objectives:
The centre focuses on cutting-edge research, balancing inheritance and innovation, expanding international exchanges, and responding to societal needs.
It also aims to form an interactive research centre with "teaching-research-internationalexchange-social service," using teaching to drive research and research to enhance teaching, strengthening international exchanges, and improving social service awareness.
The centre actively advances research-oriented teaching models. Itseeks to improve classroom teaching content and methods, ensuring the effectiveness of classroom teaching while conducting research within the classroom, and promoting teaching through research.
It helps students achieve their developmental goals while improving faculty's research levels.
Principles:
The centre adheres to the principles of equality, mutual trust, mutual assistance, collaboration, sharing, and win-win outcomes, aiming to break the cycle of stagnantprofessional development, career burnout, and mounting pressure that teachers often face.
II. Research Directions
1. Intercultural Studies
In today's increasingly globalized and diverse society, intercultural competence should become one of the most fundamental abilities in domestic higher education talent cultivation models and a basic quality for college students. Currently, multicultural education is a new educational concept, and many universities have integrated it into their educational systems. This involves further integrating and developing multicultural resources, establishing the goal of cultivating intercultural talents, changing teaching management methods, and building an international talent cultivation model to meet the needs of economic globalization, educational internationalization, and cultural diversification. Although intercultural competence-related courses are widely offered in domestic universities, there is still room for further standardization and development in teaching objectives, models, content and methods, curriculum settings and evaluation, textbook construction, and intercultural competence training and evaluation. Research areas include:
1)Intercultural Communication and Foreign Language Teaching
2)Intercultural Communication and Cultural Comparison
3)Intercultural Communication
4)Intercultural Interaction and Communication
5)Intercultural Foreign Language Education
6)Intercultural Assessment
7)Translation and Intercultural CommunicationCorpus and Intercultural Communication
8)Literature and Intercultural Communication
9)Intercultural Business Communication
10)Language and Culture
11)Corporate Culture
12)Discourse Analysis
13)Intercultural Adaptation
14)Intercultural Learning
15)Intercultural Management
16)Curriculum Ideology and Intercultural Communication
2. Overseas Sinology Studies from the Perspective of Comparative Literature
This direction aims to sort out the history, channels, and mechanisms of Chinese culture's external dissemination, study the history of the formation of sinology in various countries, and explore how different cultures receive and understand Chinese culture using comparative literature research methods. It provides historical references and practical theories for the current overseas dissemination of Chinese culture, telling Chinese stories, and enhancing cultural confidence. Main research areas include:
1) Overseas Dissemination and Influence of Ancient Chinese Cultural Classics in the 20th Century
2) Research on the Spread of Eastern Learning to the West and Intercultural Foreign Language Teaching
3) Contemporary Overseas Sinology Studies
4) Comparative Perspectives on Chinese and Western Cultures
5) Mutual Learning of Chinese and Western Literary Theories
6) Overseas Dissemination and Influence of Chinese Literary Classics
3. Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies
This direction studies literary relationships across borders and among different ethnic groups, as well as the relationships between literature and other art forms from an interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective. It emphasizes the cultivation of humanistic spirit in the global literary landscape, highlighting interdisciplinary characteristics and a broad international critical research perspective. Main research areas include:
1) Study of Foreign Cultural Elements in Chinese Literature
2) Exploration of Cultural Exchange and Chinese Literature Relations Centered on the Silk Road of the Han and Tang Dynasties
3) Literary Anthropology Studies
This research direction combines traditional literary and historical research methods with intercultural comparative studies to explore the evolutionary trajectory and laws of Chinese literature.
Development Directions of Comparative Literature and Cross-Cultural Studies:
1) Developing cross-cultural competence in foreign language classrooms
2) Research on the relationship between university English curriculum and cross-cultural competence
3) Research on cross-cultural interactive teaching methods in university English courses
4) Research on the dimensions of cross-cultural competence curriculum design and evaluation
5) Curriculum materials for ideological education and cross-cultural competence
6) Cross-cultural competence assessment schemes and evaluation
7) Research on the spread of Eastern learning to the West in early British newspapers
8) Mutual learning between Eastern and Western civilizations and cross-cultural foreign language teaching
9) Research on the spread of Eastern learning to the West in English and American literature since the Renaissance
10) Research on the origins of world literature and mutual learning between Eastern and Western civilizations
11) Globalization and literary studies, as well as Chinese literature as world literature
12) Diasporic writing and overseas Chinese literature research
13) Sino-Western cultural comparisons and mutual learning of Chinese and Western literary theories
14) Literary anthropology research
15) Posthumanism, digital humanities, and multimodal research in image writing
16) Research on the foreign cultural dissemination paths of 21st-century Chinese internet literature
III. Development Plan
1.Organize academic exchange and discussion meetings on projects and achievements related to the centre's research content.
2.Hold internal experience exchange meetings on paper writing, publication, and project application.
3.Assist centre members in selecting research topics, writing papers, and applying for projects.
4.Encourage centre members to participate in domestic and international conference exchanges.
5.Collaborate on team curriculum construction.
6.Share literature and book resources related to the centre members' research.
Specific Target Parameters in Paper Publication, Project Application, Academic Lectures, and Academic Conferences
1) Centre members will publish 1-2 papers during the centre's construction period.
2) Centre members will actively apply for 1-2 college-level independent innovation fund projects during the centre's construction period.
3) Centre members will actively apply for 1-2 provincial, ministerial, or national social science projects during the centre's construction period.
4) Centre members will participate in 5-8 academic lectures during the centre's construction period.
5) Centre members will participate in 1-2 domestic or international academic exchanges during the centre's construction period.
