Greetings from the Executive Director

Photo of WREAC Chief Executive V. Terry King.  Photographed by Mike Parnwell.

A warm welcome to the White Rose East Asia Centre. The Centre is a new and exciting joint initiative between the University of Leeds Department of East Asian Studies (DEAS) and the Centre for International Business University of Leeds (CIBUL) and the School of East Asian Studies (SEAS) at the University of Sheffield. For the past 40 years both SEAS and DEAS have been the main national providers of training and supervision in modern Chinese and Japanese language and area studies at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. We have decided that the time is ripe to combine our resources and expertise in language provision, and in the social sciences and humanities, under the umbrella of the White Rose consortium, to establish a unified and focused national centre of excellence. It is based on the already close and genuine collaboration between Leeds and Sheffield.

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Professor V. Terry King
Executive Director