Publications

IEAS has a vibrant research culture, with faculty members actively engaged in research and publication at high international level of academic excellence. Under the leadership of academic committee and the base director of Key Research Base for Philosophy and Social Science in Zhejiang Province, IEAS runs East Asian History and Culture Research Center, East Asian International Relation Research Center and East Asian Economy and Trade Research Center, publishes East Asian Matrix quarterly working papers and Think Tank Bulletin occasional newsletter which provides regular commentary report regarding current East Asia related events through a more collaborative and comparative perspective. IEAS annually assesses five philosophy and social sciences research projects in Zhejiang Province and runs twenty research initiatives that involve faculty and graduate students in projects on topics central to the East Asian region. This provides precious synergies and chances for training our graduate students to become significant part of a wider research community on East Asia involving specialists in different academic fields.      

Unique among similar research institutes in China, more than ten East Asia series, one hundred scholarly monographs, and well integrated volumes of over six hundred scholarly articles on topics dealing with East Asia are published as a service to the academic community and the general public worldwide. Nearly half of these scholarly works are written in foreign languages. Our publications are informative in an academic context. We have a proud record of external recognition through awards bestowed by bodies in China and Asia. The available representative example of our prize-winning publications is as follows:  

History of Exchange of Chinese Books Between China and Japan edited by Professor Wang Yong (First Runner-up of Outstanding Humanities and Social Sciences Research awarded by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China ) 

Given the preeminence of Professor WANG Yong in the academic field of bitan, the research project of East Asian Bitan Literature and Studies spearheaded by him was designated to be a key national research project by the National Social Science Foundation. This is unprecedented in the history of Zhejiang Gongshang University. Since 2006, our full-time faculty members had conducted more than sixty research projects, including six at the national level and ten at provincial level. In 2011, the project of Research on Chinese Classics Outside China under the simultaneous key financial auspices of Zhejiang Province and Japan Foundation generated strong impact on the East Asian academic field.

In 2015, the Li Dai Zheng Shi Ri Ben Zhuang Kao Zhu (历代正史日本传考注Glossary Explanations and Bibliographic Annotations of Japan in Official Chinese Dynastic History) of five volumes illustriously edited by Professor Wang Yong was on the list of National Editing and Publication of Ancient Books Project.

2017 will mark the 45th anniversary of the normalization of Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations. Two IEAS Professors, Dr Wang Yong and Dr Chen Xiaofa, are illustriously appointed chief executive officers for the Sino-Japanese Cultural Exchange Picture Exhibition in the Twenty-Fourth Tokyo International Book Fair 2017.  Through representations, pictures, photos and material objects, China’s long and complex multi-channel, multi-facet, multi-form cultural interactions with Japan stretching back over at least two millennia will be displayed. This large scale Sino-Japanese Cultural Exchange Picture Exhibition together with the book launch of a series of forty books edited by Professor Wang Yong and Professor Chen Xiaofa under the single format of Zhong Ri Wen Hua Jiao Liu Wen Ku (中日文化交流文库 History of Sino-Japanese Cultural Exchange ) will facilitate the spirit of good neighborliness and friendship. Zhong Ri Wen Hua Jiao Liu Wen Kuis is honorably listed in the state project for promotion of traditional Chinese cultural classics overseas. The whole state project is headed by the State Council Information Office of People’s Republic of China and the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of the People’s Republic of China. Zhong Ri Wen Hua Jiao Liu Wen Ku is simultaneously included in the key national publication projects 2016.