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Sinophone Borderlands – Interaction at the Edges

Official title of the project: Sinophone Borderlands – Interaction at the Edges
Reg. Project number: CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000791
Call: 02_16_019 Excellent Research
Operational Program: OP Research, Development and Education
Project duration: 1. 7. 2018 – 30. 6. 2023
Budget: 175 304 059,50 CZK

Project leader: Mgr. Ondřej Kučera, Ph.D.
Recipient: Palacky University Olomouc
Project acronym: Sinophone Borderlands or SINOFON

Annotation: The main objective of this project is to present a unique concept of the sinophone world based on interregional dialogue and provide a new angle on the global impact of the rise of China. Political, economic, linguistic and sociological analyses will be presented to both Czech and EU politicians. The research team is strengthened by scholars from abroad, carrying out cross -cultural interdisciplinary field research in Taiwan, Russia, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan and in other regions and countries.

The infrastructure of the Research Centre will be modernized and three laboratories will be established within the project (Language, Computer analyses and Material culture laboratories). These will make it possible to better analyze and understand animosity between competition and cooperation processes and indentify current trends in migration activity between China and the outside world.

Contact person:Petra Vaculíková (Project Manager) – petra.vaculikova@upol.cz; phone: 774 274 252

GLOBAL VIEWS ON CHINA

As part of the Sinophone Borderlands – Interaction at the Edges project, a series of large-scale representative surveys of public opinion are conducted investigating global views of China. The first such survey was run in September 2020 in 13 European countries – Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Latvia, Serbia, and Russia. The next survey is planned for 2021 in selected Asian countries.

2020 in a nutshell

With the beginning of a new decade we would like to reflect on what our institute and especially its researchers achieved in 2020.
So please lay back while we present you the numbers that defined 2020 for us.

52 Guests visited us

27 Published articles

10 Visited countries

10 Conferences & Workshops

International guests

In 2020 we had 52 guests visiting us offline and online. These were from 24 different countries and 45 different Institutions. Among these were prestigious institutions e.g. George Washington University, Harvard University, RSIS Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, University of Copenhagen, University of Manchester.

Publications

27 Articles were published in academic journals by our researchers in 2020

- Celebration of Nowruz in Bukhara and Samarkand in Ritual Practice and Social Discourses (the Second Half of the 19th to Early 20th Centuries)
- Chemical and Microscopic Analyses of The Afghan Turkmen Ersari Tribe Headdres
- Claiming Heritage: the Manas Epic between China and Kyrgyzstan
- In the Case of Protosemiosis: Indexicality vs. Iconicity of Proteins
- Rhythms of nutag: Slowness and Deceleration in Inner Asian Mobilities
- State–society relations under a new model of control in China: Graduated control 2.0
- Intonational Morphology
- Vietnamese Organized Crime in the Czech Republic

Fieldworks and visited conferences

In 2020 our researchers visited 10 countries.
These are:
Turecko 2x
Tchajwan 1x
Slovensko 2x
Německo 1x
Rusko 3x
Maďarsko 1x
Velká Británie 2x
Japonsko 1x
USA 1x
Čína 1x

Surveys

In 2020 our team launched a series of large-scale representative surveys of public opinion investigating global views of China. The first such survey was run in September 2020 in 13 European countries - Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Latvia, Serbia, and Russia. As a result several reports were published, e.g.

European public opinion on China in the age of COVID-19: Differences and common ground across the continent

Conferences and workshops

In 2020 our project organized 4 conferences and workshops. These were on the topics of:

- Workshop on publishing in International Journals (10-14.2.2020)
- Southeast Asia´s and Russia´s Relations with China (29.1.2020)
- Survey workshop – European attitudes towards China during the time of Covid (2.-4.11.2020)
- Virtual workshop: Xinjiang colloquim (13.11.2020)