MEARC Products

MEARC's deliverables show our will and ability to cater the needs for our target audiences. MEARC offers products listed below. For more details on MEARC's Products, please visit the following pages:

• MEARC Events
• MEARC Research
• MEARC Grants
• MEARC Publications

For a comprehensive overview of MEARC's mission, products, activities and research, MEARC publishes annual reports.

• MEARC Annual Report 2007-2008
• MEARC Annual Report 2006-2007

We are very grateful to LUF for their generous support to our Conference Attendance Grant Programme in 2009.

Leids Universiteits Fonds

Product Range

• International conferences, workshops, research seminars and a lecture series on Modern East Asia
• Lecturers in these series are leading academics, diplomats and policy-makers


• A visiting scholars programme
• In 2006/2007 our visiting scholars were Dr. Tze-ki Hon, Dr. Curtis Gayle, and Dr. Ya-pei Kuo


• Writing-up grants for recent PhD graduates to revise their PhD thesis into a book
• Dr. Kiri Paramore was MEARC's first writing up grantee, followed by Dr. Viren Murthy


• Two internationally recognised book series with renowned publishers in MEARC-related research fields
• Books in these series as well as other MEARC related books are listed in the Publications section


• Contribution to feature editions of journals in the field(s)
• Quarterly Journal China Information
• Bi-annual Journal Historiography East & West


• Support to Leiden University in East Asia Studies
• This support is to consolidate and enhance cutting-edge research facilities in Leiden


• Research support to local and affiliated researchers to facilitate excellence in research products



• The construction of a select, dynamic and internationally renowned group of research affiliates



• Infrastructural support for research/grant applications
• The recent establishment of Asiascape.net (Contemporary East Asian Media Centre) is one of the results of this kind of research support