The School of Chinese Classics Celebrated 15th Anniversary
2020.11.23
On November 13th, the School of Chinese Classics (国学院) celebrated the 15
th anniversary. A celebration was held in Guoxueguan Hall, and the opening ceremony of Yishao - Mogao Dunhuang Art Exhibition was held at the University Museum on the same day.

A set of academic activities were organized by the School of Chinese Classics this month. Academic conferences held include: Seminar on Chinese Classics and Classic Studies Discipline Construction Seminar, Chinese Classics in K12 Education Seminar, the First Conference on Ancient Knowledge and the Spread of Civilizations, the Conference on Chinese Classics and Digital Humanity, and the Seminar on How to Step into Chinese Classics. The “Rizhi” Lecture series specially provided 21 anniversary lectures, and more lectures on Dunhuang studies, art history and Eurasian civilizations will meet the audience soon. Exciting academic activities like this showed academic and educational achievements of the School of Chinese Classics through the 15 years, while promoting a positive school image to the public.

The School of Chinese Classics was founded in October 2005. It is the first higher education institute in China in the name of "Chinese classics" (guoxue, 国学). Prof. FENG Qiyong, first President of the School of Chinese Classics, brought forward the concept of “new Chinese classics” (大国学). From 2017, the School of Chinese Classics has been working on the research of “new Chinese classics” under the scope of classics studies, building a unique discipline and education mode of Chinese classics – classics studies.
Now the school consists of two departments of Chinese Classics (汉语古典学系) and Eurasian Classics (西域古典学系), providing programs in Chinese language and literature, Chinese history, archaeology, philosophy, ethnology and philology. The School emphasizes on breaking discipline barriers, actively carrying out classics studies rooted in the study of “new Chinese Classics,” and strives to build a discipline system of Chinese classics which meets the needs of the time, and which promotes in-depth dialogue across time and civilizations.