GUEST LECTURE Yernur Rakhimov Kazakhstan perception of the Chinese presence. Kazakh factor on the “Great altaiI Date & Time 17.-18.4.2019 Location Vodární 6

GUEST LECTURE Yernur Rakhimov Kazakhstan perception of the Chinese presence, Kazakh factor on the “Great altaiI Date & Time 15.-16.4.2019 Location Vodární 6

GUEST LECTURE Sergey Abashin Migration from Central Asia to Russia Date & Time 24.1.2019, 10:00 AM CET Location Křížkovského 14

GUEST LECTURE Nhung Tuyet Tran Vietnamese Catholic identity in the early modern Era Date & Time 22.6.2023, 10:30 AM CET Location Trainee Centre Online Abstract Drawing from decolonial methodologies, Nhung Tuyen Tran will show that Catholicism had become a Vietnamese religion by the seventeenth century. By making the teachings legible to their co-believers, circulating them in vernacular manuscripts and oral performance, paying for the establishment of the community, and demanding pastoral care from Rome, local…

GUEST LECTURE prof. Li-ping Chang The Effects of an Experimental course using data-driven Learning Approach in Chinese as a Second Language Date & Time 13.6.2023, 10:30 AM CET Location Trainee Centre Online Abstract The Data-Driven Learning (DDL) approach advocates for learners to transition from passive knowledge recipients to active researchers by using typical, large-scale, and context-rich target language inputs to drive a bottom-up learning process (Johns, 1990). Given the scarcity of empirical research on applying…

GUEST LECTURE Chinyun Lee Hairnet production on Vysocina and Shandong Date & Time 7.6. – 14.6.2023 Location Trainee Centre Online Abstract Hairnet production on Vysocina and Shandong The manufacturing of hand-made paper at Puli, Taiwan Jewish life in Manchurie 1894-1935 Tang poet Li Shang-yin and his love Li Shieng: an Chinese anarchist

GUEST LECTURE Dr. Seb Rumsby Hmong Protestants in Vietnam´s highlands Date & Time 18.5. 2023 Location Trainee Centre Online Abstract “Hmong Protestants in Vietnam’s highlands“  &  “Everyday Political Economy of Christian Conversion and Ethnic Inequality among a Marginalised Minority Groups in Northern Vietnam“ As state economic policies promote integration under a single logic of modernist development, many impoverished groups remain on the margins. Using an everyday political economy lens, I demonstrate how seemingly powerless actors…

GUEST LECTURE Lian-Hee Wee Tonal prosody Date & Time 18.5.2023, 1:15 PM CET Location Trainee Centre Online Abstract While it is evident to many that tone is a prosodic entity, it remains unclear, to me at least, how one can develop a unified understanding with better known ideas from metrical phonology. This talk offers my reflection on two main sets of the ideas concerning a prosodic treatment of tone: in relation to prosodic wordhood and…

GUEST LECTURE Lian-Hee Wee Components of tone and their organization Date & Time 16.5.2023 1:15 PM CET Location Trainee Centre Online Abstract This talk begins with basic notation of tones and leads into the need for tone to be represented as features. The features as it turns out do not exist on the same plane, but needs to be separated into register features and contour features. Over the decades, there has been a growing acceptance…

GUEST LECTURE Lian-Hee Wee Drama of the Uncanny as the Aesthetics of old Master Q Date & Time 9.5.2023, 1:15 PM CET Location Trainee Centre Online Abstract Alfonso Wong’s long-running Old Master Q, arguably the most well-known and popular series in the history of Hong Kong comics, is commonly thought of as hilarious comedy with a streak of social commentary. Focusing on the previously neglected ways Wong plays with elements of the uncanny (in a…

GUEST LECTURE Mateja Petrovčič Why did it také 20 years to invent Chinese information processing + history of IT Date & Time 2.5. – 9.5.2023 Location Trainee Centre Online Abstract Why did it take 20 years to invent Chinese information processing + history of IT Coded vs noncoded character sets Encoding methods (legacy + unicode) Input methods (overview + available in Windows) Basic of fonts + create your own chars Bio Mateja Petrovčič works as…

GUEST LECTURE Oana Moldovan Doctoral schools: Projects as career development tools for scientist Date & Time 28.4.2023, 1:00 PM, CET Location Křížkovského 10

GUEST LECTURE Christophe Robert Visualizing the invisible: Covid-19 Pandemic seasons in Saigon Date & Time 25.4.2023, 11:30 CET Location Trainee Centre  Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic disrupted daily life in Vietnam and Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City in ways that diverged from reporting in Vietnamese and foreign media. Images of empty streets with no traffic became features of Western reporting and were mimicked by Vietnamese media. Yet, in alleyways and smaller streets, life went on. Through a…

GUEST LECTURE CHRISTOPHE ROBERT Long Covid: Contamination, contagion, and the politics of corruption during the Covid-19 pandemic in Vietnam (January 2020 to now) Date & Time 24.4.2023, 15:00 CET Location Trainee Centre  Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic can be divided into three main phases in Vietnam. The initial phase, in spring-summer 2020, was benign and well under control, largely because of adequate government preparations based on previous experiences with SARS and avian flu, and close collaboration…

GUEST LECTURE dr. Eva F. Nissa Profesionalisation of Halal Industries in Indonesia And Malaysia Date & Time 05.04.2023, 10:00 AM CET Location Trainee Centre  Abstract Neighbouring countries, Indonesia and Malaysia, are important global players in halal industries. Aspiring to be leaders amongst the halal global players, the two countries are refining their halal ecosystems to strengthen their global halal industry performance. But what does it mean for the local halal industries? Drawing on ethnographic research…

GUEST LECTURE Tanguy Struye de Swieland, Duncan McCargo, Monique Taylor Experience Sharing: time management, interviews, abstracts Reflesctions of a Seriál PhD. Supervisor: dissertations, journal submissions, konference presentations Experience Sharing: literature review, negative aspects of dissertations Date & Time 6. – 8.3.2023 Location Trainee Centre Online Abstract TANGUY STRUYE DE SWIELANDE Experience Sharing: time, management, interviews, abstracts BIO: Tanguy Struye de Swielande is Professor of IR at UCL where he teaches several courses in the fields…

GUEST LECTURE Eric Schluessel Book Talk-Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia Date & Time 14.12.2020, 16:00 CET Location Trainee Centre Online Abstract At the close of the nineteenth century, near the end of the Qing empire, Confucian revivalists from central China gained control of the Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang, or East Turkestan. There they undertook a program to transform Turkic- speaking Muslims into Chinese-speaking Confucians, seeking to bind this population and their homeland to the…

GUEST LECTURE Patrick Heinrich Language Endangerment Occurs in Borderlands: Case from Japan, Korean and China Date & Time 22.11.2019, 9:10 CET Location Křížkovského 12, Olomouc Abstract At least half of the world’s 7,000 languages are endangered today, that is to say, they are set to lose all of their remaining speakers by the end of this century because younger generations are no longer learning these languages. There are countless factors that lead to language endangerment, and no endangerment process…

GUEST LECTURE Dr. Ishani Naskar Charting Indian Foreign Policy in the Twenty first Century

GUEST LECTURE Thiombiano Dramane The narratives of China-Africa brotherly relationships and the realities xenophobia towards Africans migrants in China Date & Time 27.11.2020, 10:00 CET Location Trainee Centre Online Abstract Even with existence of records of ancient contacts between China and Africa, little is known about the extents of these relations. Modern relation between the two dates from Mao Ze Dong’s era after the Communist Party of China won the civil war against the nationalists…

GUEST LECTURE Twitter pro vědce Date & Time 14.4.2021, 9:00 CET Location Trainee Centre Online Abstract 9:00–10:00 Stručný úvod a představení (význam Twitteru, základní terminologie, ukázka prostředí TW) 10:00–11:00 Tvorba obsahu a možnosti jak obsah sdílet (Ukázka českých a zahraničních účtů vědců/institucí; jak se sdělení na TW stává virálním, jak tomu napomoci) 11:00–12:00 Práce s „feedem“ aneb jak prakticky fungovat na Twitteru a TweetDeck – analýza úspěšnosti příspěvků Bio Tomáš Kodydek vystudoval na Fakultě managementu a ekonomiky Univerzity…

GUEST LECTURE PhDr. Mgr. Martin Rychlík, Ph.D., Ph.D. Tvůrčí psaní pro vědce Date & Time 28.4.2021 9:00 AM CET Location Trainee Centre Online Bio Martin Rychlík vystudoval etnologii a dějiny/teorii kultury na FF UK (Ph.D.). Od roku 2000 působí v médiích: pracoval v ČTK, týdeníku Euro, České pozici a Lidových novinách. Od října 2019 vede média Univerzity Karlovy. V roce 2009 studoval Science Communication na Tokijské univerzitě. Byl členem vědecké rady NF Neuron, je v poradním sboru UNICEF. Napsal čtyři knižní monografie, nejnověji Dějiny…

GUEST LECTURE FRANCISCO ORTEGA Rethinking community participation in global health: lessons from covid-19 pandemic in Brazil Date & Time 9.12.2022      10 AM CET Location Trainee Centre Abstract In the face of persistent neglect and denial of the severity of COVID-19 by the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro, residents in many of Brazil’s favelas have been left to organise their own responses to the pandemic. Mutual aid practice eschews paternalisticand charity-oriented development models and…

GUEST LECTURE Dr. Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb Climate Change and Health: The early warning and responce concept for infectious Diseases Date & Time 12.12.2022 10 AM CET Location Trainee Centre  Abstract Climate change and unplanned urbanization have significantly impacted the global public health profile by enforcing population migration, creating vulnerable groups and favouring the spread and intensity of infectious diseases. Disease outbreaks are hence, not normally distributed but inextricably linked to disadvantaged households and societies in tropical…

GUEST LECTURE Dr. GIANLUIGI NEGRO Media and Nation building in China Date & Time 07.12. 2022   5 PM, CET Location ONLINE GUEST LECTURE : https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/98143283694 & Trainee centre 2.40 Abstract The study of the media in China is a subject of increasing interest and debate among several disciplines, from media to international relations studies. Indeed, the use of new and powerful technologies in the media has contributed to revolutionizing the world of Chinese communication. The…

GUEST LECTURE MARCO FUMIAN Genealogies of Literary Forms and the “Limits” of Realism in Contemporary China Date & Time 05.12. 2022 09 AM, CET Location Trainee centre 2.40, Tř. Svobody 686/26 Abstract This presentation aims to (re-)explore the ways in which the main Chinese literary movements of the Post-Mao Era reconstructed the uneasy relationship between reality and form, carving up some acceptable spaces of representation by means of a strategic work of formal restructuring. In…

GUEST LECTURE THE JAVANESE KERIS. A LEGENDARY WEAPON AND POWERFUL OBJECT by Prof. EDWIN WIERINGA Date & Time 17.06.2022, 10:00 AM (CEST) Location Trainee centre 2.40, Tř. Svobody 686/26, Olomouc & ONLINE via ZOOM https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/91612294249 (meeting ID: 916 1229 4249) Abstract This presentation will address the Javanese keris or kris, which is a traditional dagger, best known for its distinctive wavy blade. It is both a weapon and extraordinary object, considered to have magical powers.…

GUEST LECTURE BRANCHING INTO HERITAGE THE GENESIS OF THE ANNE FRANK TREE AND ITS MULTIPLICATIONS by Prof. IRENE STENGS Date & Time 02.05.2022, 3:30 PM (CEST) Location Trainee centre 2.40, Tř. Svobody 686/26, Olomouc & ONLINE via ZOOM: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/94045486991  Abstract This presentation will address the genesis and multiplication of the so-called ‘Anne Frank Tree’, the horse chestnut tree behind the Secret Annex that Anne Frank wrote about in her diary. Fungus-infected, the tree fell in…

GUEST LECTURE TASTE IN THE MAKING / COOKING AT THE CORE: CUISINE AS PRACTICAL REGIME / SOCIAL FORMATION by Prof. Allen Chun Date & Time 20.04. 2022, 2:00 PM Location Trainee centre 2.40 & Online via ZOOM: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/93715365316 Abstract In Marilyn Strathern’s classic monograph, Kinship at the Core, she argued that the core of the English village had less to do with “real” kin structure than with the peculiarity of the village as a cultural…

GUEST LECTURE CHINESENESS BETWEEN THE CULTURAL AND POLITICAL: IS IT POSSIBLE FOR SOCIAL SCIENTISTS TO BE OBJECTIVE ABOUT IT? by Prof. Allen Chun Date & Time 19.04. 2022, 11:30 AM Location Room n. 2.64 (next to the Korean corner), Tř. Svobody & Online via ZOOM: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/97013632419 Abstract In 2017 I wrote a book entitled Forget Chineseness: On the Geopolitics of Cultural Identification. For some people, it may have represented a sequel or expansion of a…

GUEST LECTURE Trojan Horses in the Chinese Countryside: The Bishan Commune and the Practice of Socially Engaged Art in Rural China by Dr. MAI CORLIN FREDERIKSEN Date & Time 05.05. 2022, 3 PM (CEST) Location online lecture via ZOOM: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/95490233449 Abstract In recent years an increasing number of urban artists have turned towards the countryside in an attempt to revive rural areas perceived to be in a crisis. This talk is concerned with socially engaged…

GUEST LECTURE MODELING MEANING Meet and Greet Lecture with Prof. Francis Bond Date & Time Wednesday 30th March 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM Location Trainee Centre 2.40 and online via ZOOM https://cesnet.zoom.us/my/joannasio Abstract We can use computers to model meaning and then do things with it. In this talk I introduce very informally two complimentary approaches: the Open Multilingual Wordnet, a large lexical network of words grouped into concepts and linked by typed semantic relations…

GUEST LECTURE THE MEGALITHS OF HIGHLAND JAMBI: ARCHEOLOGY AND ETHNOHISTORY OF AN OLD TRANS-SUMATRAN TRADE ROUTE By Prof. Heinzpeter Znoj Date & Time 7 April 2022 3 PM (CEST) Location hybrid lecture: TRAINEE CENTRE 2.40 (Třída Svobody) & online lecture via ZOOM https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/93783325617 Abstract The highlands of Sumatra have at least four distinct megalithic cultures: those of Pasemah in the South, the Minangkabau in the West, the Batak in the North, and of highland Jambi…

GUEST LECTURE A THEORY OF SUSPENDED ANIMATION: THE AESTHETICS AND POLITICS OF (E)MOTION AND STILLNESS By Prof. DAISY YAN DU Date & Time 11.04. 2022 10 AM CET (4 PM Hong Kong time) Location ONLINE via ZOOM: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/91800760046 Abstract Animation has long been regarded as an art of movement and a moving art. Showing the limits of the movement framework, this article examines suspended animation as an aesthetic category of representation and analyzes the political…

BOOK TALK BOOK TALK: CHINA’S HIGH-TECH PENAL COLONY By DARREN BYLER Date & Time 15.12. 2021, 5 PM CET Location Trainee Centre Online: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/92472265917 Abstract A cruel and high-tech form of colonization has been unfolding over the past decade in China’s vast northwestern region of Xinjiang, where as many as a million and a half Uyghurs, Kazakhs and Hui have vanished into high-security camps and associated factories. It is the largest internment of a religious…

GUEST LECTURE YIMIN SHIBIAN AND ITS LEGACIES: CONTRADICTORY RELOCATION ALONG THE TIBETAN BORDERS by ROBERT BARNETT Date & Time 07.12. 2021, 4 PM CET Location Trainee Centre Online: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/93031561358 Abstract Rulers of China have used demographic relocation as a policy tool for several centuries, sometimes for economic or social reasons and sometimes for military or defensive purposes, as in the case of the bingtuan. Currently, most relocation in China is associated, at least rhetorically, with…

GUEST LECTURE HORIZONTAL HAPPENINGS: PERFORMING SLEEP IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA by ROS HOLMES Date & Time 03.12. 2021, 11:15 AM, CET Location Trainee Centre Online: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/96305065411 Abstract Amid revelations centred on ‘007’ bosses (who work from midday to midnight, seven days a week) and the ‘996’ system – (staff working from 9am to 9pm six days a week) the vision of China as a sleepless (and highly productive) society continues to gain symbolic currency. If speed,…

GUEST LECTURE DR. LENA KAUFMANN CHINA’S DIGITAL SILK ROAD TO EUROPE: CONNECTING SWITZERLAND Date & Time 17.11. 2021 3 PM, CET Location Trainee Centre Online: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/92494385252 Abstract This talk provides ethnographic and historical insights on one important, though commonly overlooked, aspect of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the so-called Digital Silk Road (DSR). The latter refers to the massive investments in fiber-optic cables, data centers and smart cities built alongside the BRI energy and transport…

GUEST LECTURE DR. GUANGHUI DING CHINA’S ARCHITECTURAL EXPORTS TO THE GLOBAL SOUTH: FROM THE 1950s TO THE PRESENT​ Date & Time 19.11. 2021 2.15 PM, CET Location Trainee Centre Online https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/7262880184  Abstract China’s architectural exports to less-developed countries, such as conference halls, government offices, hospitals, institutional headquarters, schools, stadia and theatres, have played a special role in the state’s foreign aid and diplomatic strategy. This talk attempts to examine the development and transformation of this distinctive…

GUEST LECTURE Gauging the Pulse of Asia: Traditional Medicine and Capitalist Transformations By STEPHAN KLOOS Date & Time 25.11. 2021, 5 PM CET Location TŘÍDA SVOBODY 686/26, TRAINEE CENTRE 2.40 & ONLINE VIA ZOOM  https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/98459747068 Abstract This lecture will use the case of Tibetan medicine to introduce the notion of “Asian medical industries” and show that so-called “traditional” Asian medicines have become an integral part of modern Asia. As such, they need to be understood…

GUEST LECTURE JOURNALISM, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE IN VIETNAM by LE THU MACH Date & Time 24.11. 2021 10 AM, CET Location Trainee Centre Online: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/98554741382 Abstract This lecture provides an overview of the journalism and social media in Vietnam, and the formulation of public sphere in this single-party country. It analyses the unique ideological and legal foundation of Vietnamese state-owned journalism, and the evolution of social media, particularly Facebook, in this context.…

GUEST LECTURE FULFILLING THE POTENTIAL OF ALL PLANTS: JIUHUANG BENCAO AND THE DISCOURSE ON FAMINE FOODS by Huang Chen (Sarah) Date & Time 11. 11. 2021, 17:00 CET Location Online via ZOOM https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/98687957780 Abstract Jiuhuang bencao  救荒本草 (Materia Medica for Famine Relief or the Famine Herbal), published in 1406, was the first printed monograph on famine foods in China. The book listed 414 entries of edible plants that could be consumed in times of scarcity, with naturalistic illustrations…

GUEST LECTURE RUI GRAÇA FEIJÓ: THE HONOURABLE DEAD AND THE FATE OF THE LIVING. NOTES ON THE POLITICS OF MEMORY AND THE PROCESS OFNATION-BUILDING IN TIMOR-LESTE. Date & Time 4. 8. 2021, 15:00 CEST Location ONLINE LECTURE VIA ZOOM: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/93855710593 Abstract From December 1975 to October 1999, Timor-Leste suffered a neo-colonial occupation by Indone-sia. In the height of the Cold War, the brutality of foreign domination went mostly silenced, but it is now estiamted that…

GUEST LECTURE RUI GRAÇA FEIJÓ AGAINST FORMIDABLE ODDS. TIMOR-LESTE BOLD DECISION TO BUILD A DEMOCRATIC STATE. Date & Time 27. 7. 2021, 15:00 CEST Location ONLINE LECTURE VIA ZOOM https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/95216757512 Abstract On May 20,2002, Timor-Leste emerged from a long period of Portuguese colonialism followed by a brutal, neo-colonial rule by its giant neighbour, Indonesia, to become the first new nation-state of the 21st century. The task before the people of this small half-island in Southeast…

GUEST LECTURE CHI P. PHAM THINKING INDIAN DIASPORA STUDIES: PRESENTATIONS OF OLD AND NEW INDIANS IN VIETNAM Date & Time 7. 7. 2021, 10:00 CEST Location ONLINE LECTURE VIA ZOOM: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/98301292235 Abstract This talk analyzes images of Indian migrants in Vietnam, suggesting political associations of recent concepts of diasporic populations in diaspora studies. Specifically, this talk compares Vietnamese presentations of the Indians who migrated to Vietnam before and after the time of the Reform (1986) in…

GUEST LECTURE MATEJ ŠIMALČÍK VIZUALIZATION OF DATA FROM SURVEYS Date & Time 7. 6. 2021, 17:00 CEST Location ONLINE LECTURE VIA ZOOM Abstract The workshop is aimed at researchers participating in Sinofon’s survey project in East Asia.Drawing on experience from the survey project conducted in Europe in the fall of 2020. As part of the workshop, we will discuss how to work with the survey raw data to gain meaningful insights into public opinion and how to…

GUEST LECTURE DR. HAI HONG NGUYEN VIETNAM´S FOREIGN POLICY AFTER THE 13TH PARTY CONGRESS Date & Time 02.06. 2021, 9:00 CEST Location ONLINE LECTURE VIA ZOOM https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/95296988804 Abstract The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) convened its 13th Congress on 25 January – 1 February of 2021. The Congress adopted the nation´s foreign policy in the next five years and beyond. Vietnam´s successful economic reforms in the past 35 years; geopolitical position in the on-going evolution…

GUEST LECTURE BOOK TALK: THE GREAT DISPOSSESSION by ILDIKÓ BELLÉR-HANN AND CHRIS HANN Date & Time 21. 5. 2021, 16:00 CET Location ONLINE LECTURE VIA ZOOM https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/98606972800 Abstract Ildikó Bellér-Hann and Chris Hann present their new book, The Great Dispossession. Uyghurs between Civilizations. The book focusses on the Uyghurs oasis of Qumul in Xinjiang to recount the story of community and modernization but also of state violence and exclusion. The authors will answer questions after…

GUEST LECTURE THE RETURN OF THE ARMCHAIR: WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE A COMMITTED FIELDWORKER BUT MUST STAY AT HOME? by DR. VERONIKA SIMONOVA, EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY AT ST. PETERSBURG Date & Time 29. 04. 2021, 13:00 CET Location ONLINE LECTURE VIA ZOOM https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/95513807207 Abstract During the workshop, we shall discuss effective ways of gathering empirical data within the context of distant research work. Today social anthropologists and scholars from related disciplines find themselves in…

GUEST LECTURE Language behaviours shaped by the interplay between (non-) linguistic forces by Gyu-Ho Shin, Palacký University Olomouc Date & Time 23. 04. 2021, 09:30 CET Location Online lecture via ZOOM https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/91691601582 Abstract A usage-based constructionist approach assumes that language is a system that emerges, grows, and changes constantly as a function of properties of input and their interactions with cognitive-psychological mechanisms. In this talk, I share research outcomes that support this approach, with a particular…

GUEST LECTURE Maoist Campaigns and Uyghur Elites in Xinjiang, 1957-1966 by Joshua L. Freeman, Princeton University Date & Time Mar 29, 2021 05:00 PM Prague Bratislava Location Trainee Centre Online https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/95623599883 Abstract When the People’s Liberation Army marched into Xinjiang in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party had little expertise and no local operatives in the vast, Muslim-majority region. In order to effectively govern, the party swiftly formed alliances with groups of Uyghur intellectuals and elites,…

GUEST LECTURE ARE MALAYSIANS STILL HAVING POSITIVE VIEWS OF CHINA? A REPORT ON A 2016 SURVEY AND BEYOND by DR. CHOW BING NGEOW Date & Time March 2nd, 2021. Time: 10:00 AM Location This is a closed lecture. In case you are interested in joining please contact organizer Kristina Kironská (kristina.kironska @upol.cz) Abstract Malaysia and China established their diplomatic ties in 1974. Since then, and especially since 1990s, Malaysia-China relations developed rapidly in many fronts,…