{"id":119,"date":"2026-07-08T05:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icher2027.cacler.hku.hk\/?page_id=119"},"modified":"2026-07-14T12:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:15:25","slug":"%e9%97%9c%e6%96%bc%e6%9c%ac%e7%a0%94%e8%a8%8e%e6%9c%83","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/icher2027.cacler.hku.hk\/en\/%e9%97%9c%e6%96%bc%e6%9c%ac%e7%a0%94%e8%a8%8e%e6%9c%83\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Conference Dates:<\/strong>
7 to 9 January 2027 (Thu – Sat)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Conference Venue:<\/strong>
Chinese International Education College \/ Overseas Education College, Xiamen University (Xiang’an Campus)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Conference Theme:<\/strong>
The trans-era inheritance and cross-regional development of Han-character and literature education<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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1. About the Conference:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a carrier of civilization spanning millennia, Han characters exhibit rich regional forms within the East Asian cultural sphere: from the simplified standardization in mainland China to the traditional inheritance in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan; from the Japanese-made kanji using a mix of kana and Japanese script to the Korean-derived kanji using Hangul; and then to the Vietnamese kanji system within the N\u00f4m script. These diverse variations carry shared cultural genes and distinct historical trajectories. This ecosystem of “shared origins, divergent paths, and convergent development” in Han characters has shaped the writing traditions of various language families and serves as a crucial key to understanding the interactions between East Asian civilizations. This conference, grounded in this diverse landscape, invites scholars, teachers, and researchers from around the world to engage in in-depth dialogue on the study of Han characters themselves, cross-language comparisons, and teaching practices, exploring new possibilities for Han-character education in the digital age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since its inception, the International Conference on Han Characters Education and Research has been held fifteen times, gradually developing into one of the most representative international academic platforms in the field of Han-character research. The sixteenth conference, hosted by Xiamen University and co-hosted by Renmin University of China, marks the continuation and expansion of this academic tradition in a broader context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xiamen University has a 70-year history in international Chinese language education, boasting profound expertise and far-reaching influence, and has cultivated talents in Han-character and literature education across five continents. In recent years, it has focused on the forefront of interdisciplinary studies, continuously launching new initiatives and trials in various aspects, from talent cultivation to the construction of humanities laboratories. Renmin University of China, as a major center for humanities and social science research in China, enjoys a high reputation in linguistics, classical studies, and intercultural comparative studies. The strong alliance between the two universities will fully leverage their complementary disciplinary advantages and global academic networks, connecting Han-character research resources in Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Europe and America, to create a high-level academic exchange platform for scholars worldwide, jointly promoting the inheritance and innovation of Han-character civilization in the digital age.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2. Themes: (topics may include, but are not limited to the following)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Han-character \/ Han literature education: including theoretical frameworks, teaching materials, methods, assessments, teaching Han-Characters\/literature as a first or foreign language, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Research on Han Characters: including history, philology, theoretical studies, annotation and compilation, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Research on Han Characters and linguistics: including characters and the uniqueness of Chinese, Chinese characters and thinking, character-based language theory research, character- based and international Chinese teaching, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Classical Chinese (including Korean Hanja) education: including Classical Chinese educational theory, teaching materials, pedagogy, assessments etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Other related topics.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    3. Previous Conferences<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    1st Conference (University of Hong Kong, January 15, 2011)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2nd Conference (Yeungnam University, South Korea, October 21-23, 2011)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    3rd Conference (Beijing Normal University, August 18-19, 2012)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    4th Conference (University of Hong Kong, August 15-16, 2013)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    5th Conference (Korea University, July 11-12, 2014)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    6th Conference (Zhejiang International Studies University, July 8-10, 2015)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    7th Conference (Kaohsiung Normal University, January 5-8, 2017)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    8th Conference (The Society of Education for Translation and Cultural Studies in Japanese and Chinese, January 16-19, 2018)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    9th Conference (Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, January 19-21, 2019)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    10th Conference (Shaanxi Normal University, August 22, 2021 [Online])<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    11th Conference (Dankook University, May 5-7, 2022 [Online])<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    12th Conference (Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna\u0144, February 2-5, 2023 [Hybrid mode])<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    13th Session (University of Hawaii at M\u0101noa, February 14-18, 2024)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    14th Session (University of Hong Kong, January 16-19, 2025)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    15th Session (Taiwan Normal University, February 5-8, 2026)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-119","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icher2027.cacler.hku.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icher2027.cacler.hku.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icher2027.cacler.hku.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icher2027.cacler.hku.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icher2027.cacler.hku.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/icher2027.cacler.hku.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/icher2027.cacler.hku.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icher2027.cacler.hku.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}