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This platform is for scholars, instructors and students to jointly write and publish books as well as to provide and use course material.

Collaborative Book Projects 5 multilingual book projects with 400+ wiki pages in up to 7 languages. Explore our academic publications. Browse Books →

Become a Co-Author Contribute your expertise to our scholarly book projects. Help expand chapters, add references, and improve content. Register as Co-Author →

Become a Co-Translator Help translate academic works into your language. We need translators for EN, DE, ZH, FR, ES, RU and more. Register as Co-Translator →

If you want to participate with the right to edit in the platform, please read the Copyright Disclaimer, Legal Notice and Data Rights Information first. Afterwards, if you agree to the Terms and Conditions, please register on this platform (German manual here). Here you can learn how to use this Wiki. General information for students on How to write a scholarly paper/thesis.

Teaching / Lehre Course materials, semester schedules, and student resources. Browse Courses →

Full Texts / Volltexte Multilingual scholarly editions of Chinese literary classics. Browse Texts →

Conferences WACS 2026 (Hong Kong, Aug 12–14) and past conferences. More →

Institutions and Chinese Studies Conferences

• 10th World Conference of Chinese Studies, August 2026 Hong Kong
• 9th World Conference of Chinese Studies, August 2025 Witten and Berlin
• 8th World Conference of Chinese Studies, August 2024 Witten and Berlin
• 7th World Conference of Chinese Studies, August 2023 Witten and Berlin
• 6th World Conference of Chinese Studies, August 2022 Witten and Berlin
• 5th World Conference of Chinese Studies, August 2021 Witten and Brussels
• International Chinese Studies Centre
• Jean Monnet Chair, Jean Monnet Work Team
• 4th World Conference of Chinese Studies, August 15-18, 2020 Witten and London
• 3rd World Conference of Chinese Studies August 24-25, 2019 Witten/Germany and August 26-27, 2019 Paris/France
• 2nd World Conference of Chinese Studies August 18-19, 2018 Witten/Germany and August 21-22, 2018 Vienna University/Austria
• 1st World Conference of Chinese Studies August 19-20, 2017 Witten/Germany

Useful things

• Speech scripts
• Free online tools to learn Chinese
• DCG-Todo-Liste, Assistenz
• Übersetzungsprojekte = Translation Projects

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