The most spectacular change is that the department relocated from Piliscsaba to Budapest, and moved into the building called Sophianum (1088 Budapest, Mikszáth square 1.), in downtown Budapest. From now on, all the teachers, the secretariat, the library and the lectures of the department will be located there. The common courses and general lectures will be held in either the Sophianum or at the building of the Faculty of Theology nearby. The office of the teachers of the Department of Chinese Studies can be found in room 101 in the Sophianum; the secretariat is at room 312.
In this semester 18 students started majoring in Chinese, they are divided into two groups on the language classes. Also in this year, PPCU and Buapest Corvinus University established a new M.A. program entitled East Asian Studies, with 25 students starting this program. On Chinese language classes, they are divided into three subgroups.
There are some personal changes an the department: our former native Chinese teacher Ye Qiuyue continues her work at Eötvös Loránd University, and our previous language volunteer Wang Kaijing moved back to China. They are replaced with two other Chinese teachers and a volunteer.
Fan Hong, from Jilin province, has studied at Shenyang Normal University. Previously, she worked as a Chinese Language teachers in dofferent institutions in Shenyang, South Korea dna Hungary. Tan Yue has studied at Heilongjiang University of Science and Technology and Beijing Foreign Studies University. She has taught Chinese to foreign students from 2010, and worked in Malaysia between 2011 and 2013. Our new language volunteer is Zuo Yawei. After graduating at Tangshan Normal College, she started to study at Beijing Foreign Studies University, and at present she is a language teacher at Madách Imre High School, Budapest, as well as a lecturer at our department.
From this semester, the head of the department is Dr. Gergely Salát, who replaced the founding head of the department, Dr. Zsuzsanna Csibra in this position.
Important structural change is that the Department of Chinese Studies was transferred from to Institute of Classical Philology and Oriental Studies to the Institute of International Studies and Political Sciences. This adjustment facilitates a closer cooperation between the staff and programs specialized in international studies and Chinese studies. Studnts can also take the minor other's program more easily. The administration work of the department and the Neptun Study System will be managed by the administrators are controlled by the International and Political studies institute's administrators of the Institute of International Studies and Political Sciences, Nelli Hernádi and Réka Szász.
This is the first year our department has demonstrators (student assistants), they are Eszter Csepi and Norbert Nyári from the second grade Chinese major.
In September 2014, PPCU established its new unit called Modern East Asia Research Group. Teachers of the Department of Chinese Studies take part in its work, and the head of the group is Dr. Gergely Salát, head of pour department.
In this semester, 6 students of our department carry on his or her studies in China. There are further student exchange and scholarship programs in the making at present.
Further news concerning the Department of Chinese Studies can be found on this official webpage, on the department's blog (www.ppkekinai.blogspot.hu), as well as on our official Facebook page (www.facebook.com/pazmanykinai).
