White Rose East Asia Centre (WREAC)
The White Rose East Asia Centre (Executive Director, Professor Terry King, Leeds) is an exciting partnership between the Universities of Sheffield and Leeds following a successful bid to become the country's Centre of Excellence on East Asia. The National Institute of Chinese Studies (Director, Professor Flemming Christiansen, Leeds) and the National Institute of Japanese Studies (Director, Professor Glenn Hook, Sheffield) together constitute WREAC.
Mission
To develop a global centre of excellence for research and training on modern China and Japan.
Aims
To utilise in-house, internet technology and other media as means to achieve a critical mass of research and training activity in both physical and electronic space in order to provide the best possible research and training environment for staff and students in East Asian studies.
Research
The four research clusters of the White Rose East Asia Centre give broad direction for developing the Centre's research agenda, each embracing prominent and evolving themes in research on East Asia. Each cluster includes multi- and inter-disciplinary approaches and combines and coordinates research activities from different disciplines, as well as straddling political boundaries in East Asia.
Each cluster represents an area of existing research strength and priority at Sheffield and Leeds, and builds on the strong track record of language-based area studies and related multi- and inter-disciplinary research.