Department of East Asian Studies

The Department of East Asian Studies began as the Centre for Chinese Studies in 1964. The Japanese Studies was introduced in 1969 and the department was renamed as the Department of Chinese and Japanese Studies. After the introduction of the Korean Studies in 2001, the department was rechristened as the Department of East Asian Studies. The department is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi.

The department offers two postgraduate courses: M.A. in East Asian Studies and M.A. in Japanese. It provides inter-disciplinary doctoral research programmes in East Asian Studies and Chinese, Japanese and Korean Studies offering opportunities in diverse areas such as history, culture, language, literature, society, economics, politics and international relations. In M.A. and Ph.D. in East Asian Studies language is compulsory component and students are required to learn one of the three East Asian languages: Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The department also offers postgraduate diploma in Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages, besides part-time Certificate, Diploma and Advanced Diploma courses in Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages in various colleges of the University of Delhi.

After successful completion of the courses, the students have placement opportunities in large number of business corporations and research organizations, such as Maruti Suzuki, Mitsubishi, LG, Samsung, HCL, American Express, Liteon, Vivo Mobiles, OPPO, Huawei, Shinhan Bank, VFS, Oracle, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, Institute of Defense Studies and Analysis, ORF, Centre for Air Power Studies, Institute of Chinese Studies, Indian Council of World Affairs, Vivekananda International Foundation etc.

The department facilitates scholarships for higher studies in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan from various funding agencies and organizations, viz. UNESCO/People‟s Republic of China-Great Wall Co-sponsored Fellowships, Taiwan Huayu Scholarship, Huawei Scholarship, Mitsubishi Corporation International Scholarship, Japanese Language scholarships for outstanding students from the Japan Foundation, Shinhan Bank Scholarships, LG Electronics, US-India-China Initiative by John Hopkins University, Harvard-Yenching Fellowships etc.

The Department is equipped with state-of-the-art Language Lab, which has a rich collection of audio and video teaching materials. The departmental Library has over 80,000 books and a number of prominent journals in English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

The Department of East Asian Studies is fully wi-fi enabled for all students, staff and faculty members.

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Head of the Department

Prof. Nabin Kumar Panda

Head of the Department

E-mail: nkpanda@eas.du.ac.in