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East Asian Studies

East Asian Studies at Manchester brings together the Centre for Chinese Studies and the new Japanese Studies discipline and offers taught and research programmes

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Research

With world-class research staff who are committed to their teaching and growing research collections in the library, East Asian Studies at Manchester is an exciting environment in which to develop projects and a wide range of supervision (including across discipline boundaries) is possible. See individual staff profiles for information on areas and projects and feel free to contact us informally.

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Current students

Please visit the student intranet for handbooks and useful information for current students:

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Funding for Doctoral Research in Japanese Studies

The North West Doctoral Training Centre, jointly run by the Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester, is offering 3 PhD studentships in Language-Based Area Studies, in fields which include East Asian Studies and Japanese Studies.

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