On March 7th and 8th, Kanazawa University hosted the 1st International Symposium on Chinese Dialect and Culture, in collaboration with Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU), at Kanazawa University Satellite Campus. This conference, funded by the project “Japan-China Immaterial Heritage,” was realized on the basis of the various cooperative research and educational activities which have been carried out by our university and BLCU in the past 5 years, notably the époque-making publication, “Linguistic Atlas of Chinese Dialects”(in 3 volumes).
At the inaugural ceremony, Vice Presidents Isamu Nagano of Kanazawa University and Zhiyun Cao of BLCU delivered a welcome and a courtesy speech respectively. Following the ceremony, Professor Cao, who is also the director of the project “Dialect-Culture Archive” in China, delivered a keynote speech. During the two days, 18 papers, besides Cao’s paper, were presented by 12 Chinese scholars from various institutions in China including BLCU, Academy of Social Sciences, Nanjing University, Fudan University and Minzu University, and by 6 Japanese scholars from the National Institute of Japanese Language, Tokyo University, Toyama University as well as our university. Discussions were centered around the dialectal and cultural phenomena in China and Japan as well as the interaction between language and culture.
Preceding the symposium, on March 6th, Professor Cao, as the Vice President of BLCU, paid a courtesy visit to the Vice President Yumiko Kashimi.
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