The Institute for Interpretation and International Communication of Chinese Culture at Beijing International Studies University (BISU) hosted an international symposium on Sept 13 themed "East Asian Cultural Exchange and Humanities".  

The symposium brought together 17 renowned experts and scholars from Japan's Doshisha University, Kobe University, as well as the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(CASS) and Peking University.

The attendees of the symposium take a group photo.

In his opening speech, Li Hongbo, director of the Research Office at BISU, emphasized the institute's role as a pivotal platform for organized research, highlighting its contribution to fostering cultural exchanges between China and the world.  

Through leveraging the university's strengths in foreign languages, Chinese literature, journalism, and translation, the institute has organized interdisciplinary, cross-institutional and international academic research.

The symposium addressed four main topics: study abroad and literary production; media, publishing, and knowledge dissemination between China and Japan; modern Chinese and Japanese literature and urban cultural spaces, and writers and texts; and Sino-Japanese literary and intellectual relations.

Yujiro Murata, a professor from Doshisha University, analyzed students studying in Japan in different periods of time from the perspectives of politics, culture and education.

Professor Maya Hamada, from Kobe University, examined modern literary history from a female perspective.

Dong Bingyue, a professor at the CASS, analyzed the works of Cui Wanqiu, a writer who has studied in Japan.  

Additional presentations covered a range of topics, such as the images of Beijing and Shanghai in novels, changes in Japanese perceptions of China over the past 40 years, and the local writings of Japanese expatriate writers.