09 Oct 2008

British Inter-University China Centre (BICC)
University of Oxford China Centre, Oxford, UK.
Self-description: "The British Inter-University China Centre (BICC) is a joint venture between Oxford, Bristol, and Manchester Universities. In 2006 it received a grant of GBP5m from the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the Economic and Social Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, with the aim of making it Britain's leading centre for research and teaching on China and Chinese language.
BICC's mission is threefold. It aims: * to expand undergraduate and postgraduate teaching of Chinese language and Chinese area studies * to facilitate the performance of original research in Chinese studies * to initiate a broad range of dissemination and outreach activities particularly, but not exclusively, in the UK."
Site contents:
* Contact Details; * BICC's Staff and Students; * Student Pages; * Conferences and Events; * Working Papers (by: William Callahan, Winnie King, Christine Wong, Frank Pieke, Anna Lora-Wainwright, Elena Barabantseva, Jin Chen, Bin Wu); * China Postgraduate Network; * User Engagement; * BICC Research Projects (Research Training in Old Chinese, Language Learning Difficulties); * Latest News; * Forthcoming Events; * Search.
URL http://www.bicc.ac.uk/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bicc.ac.uk/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
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