On 31 March 2017, Professor Dixon Wong Heung Wah, Program Director of the Global Creative Industries Program of Hong Kong University and Guest Professor of Zhejiang Gongshang University, visited IEAS and delivered a guest lecture on Globalization of Japanology in China. Professor Wong considered that China has never been more mature than today for academic internationalization and that this process will be even more accelerated in the future. The slow internationalization of Japanese studies in China is primarily due to the universal dimension of English language barrier, but also to more pragmatic factors such as uncommon approach of multidisciplinary research and some intrinsic values in China. Professor Wong suggested increasing international visibility of Chinese academic researches by translation, thereby developing cross cultural competencies of the researches conducted by Chinese scholars.

Professor Dixon Wong Heung Wah also took this very precious chance to discuss co-operation with IEAS on the study and research of global creative industries and selection of IEAS graduates to study doctoral degree at Hong Kong University.