Chinese Studies

The 1st International Symposium on Chinese Language, Literature, and Culture

Brasov, Romania

October 30 – November 1, 2025

Transilvania University of Brasov invites scholars, researchers and experts to participate in an event dedicated to academic exchange in the fields of Chinese language, literature, and culture.

The symposium is organized by the Confucius Institute of Transilvania University of Brasov togheter with the Faculty of Letters of Transilvania University of Brasov. 

We welcome submissions of previously unpublished original research articles in English that engage to one or more of the following topics:

• Modern or contemporary Chinese literature
• Chinese linguistics
• Translation practice and theory
• Chinese literary translation
• Second language acquisition of Chinese
• Cross-cultural and translation studies
• Chinese culture and civilization

The symposium will be held from October 30 - November 1, 2025, at Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania.
The selected papers (after peer-review) will be published in a specialissue of the Bulletin of Transilvania University of Brașov: Series IV. Philology. Cultural Studies. The journal isB category for Humanities (Romanian Research Council) and isindexed in EBSCO, CEEOL, and WorldCat.

Guidelines for Submissions:
• Abstracts in English should be 300-500 words in length and include positions, affiliations, and email addresses for all authors.
• Deadline for abstract submissions: August 31^st, 2025.

The online registration form and abstract submission form will be available on the conference site from June 25, 2025.