Introduction to the International Institute of Chinese Studies of Beijing Foreign Studies University

北京外国语大学国际中国文化研究院(简称“国中院”)创建于1996年，前身为海外汉学研究中心，2015年更名为现名，2023年中华文化国际传播研究院并入。国中院以加强中外文化交流、推动文明互鉴为使命，着力建设成为海外汉学与世界中国学研究高地，跨学科的高端智库，多语种、跨文化的中华文化国际传播实践平台。

Founded in 1996, the International Institute of Chinese Studies of Beijing Foreign Studies University (IICS-BFSU), formerly known as the Overseas Sinology Research Center, adopted its current name in 2015. In 2023, the Academy of International Communication of Chinese Culture was merged into IICS-BFSU. The Institute is committed to promoting cultural exchange and mutual learning among civilizations, and strives to become a leading center for overseas Sinology and global Chinese studies, a high-level interdisciplinary think tank, and a multilingual, cross-cultural platform for international communication of Chinese culture.

国中院现有专职教师23人，其中教授8人、副教授8人、讲师7人；博士生导师4人、 硕士生导师23人；学科领域覆盖文学、历史学、艺术学、新闻传播学等；工作语言除汉语外，涉及10个外语语种；教师全部拥有博士学位、海外访学或工作经历。国中院先后聘请外籍专家百余名，包括长期外国专家5名。每年有2-5名博士后在站人员和访问学者。

Currently, the Institute has 23 full-time faculty members, including eight professors, eight associate professors, and seven lecturers. Among them are four doctoral supervisors and 23 master’s supervisors. Their academic expertise spans literature, history, arts, journalism, and communication studies. In addition to Chinese, the working languages include ten foreign languages. All faculty members hold doctoral degrees and have overseas study or work experience. The Institute has also hosted over 100 international experts, including five long-term foreign scholars. Each year, it accommodates two to five postdoctoral researchers and visiting scholars.

国中院下设四个研究室：汉学与中外文化交流史研究室、世界中国学研究室、比较文学研究室、中华文化全球传播研究室。招收比较文学与跨文化方向硕士生与博士生；开设“中国学”留学生硕士项目，招生对象覆盖亚、非、欧、美洲等14个国家。

IICS-BFSU houses four research divisions, namely the Research Division for Sinology and the History of Sino-Foreign Cultural Exchange, Research Division for Global Chinese Studies, Research Division for Comparative Literature, and Research Division for the Global Communication of Chinese Culture. It recruits both master’s and doctoral students specializing in comparative literature and cross-cultural studies, and offers a master’s program in Chinese Studies for international students, with participants from 14 countries across Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.

新时代以来，国中院承担国家级重大项目3项、国家社科年度项目21项、省部级项目44项；承担横向科研项目23项，并多次荣获优秀科研集体奖。

Since the beginning of the new era, the Institute has undertaken 3 major national research projects, 21 annual projects funded by the National Social Science Fund, and 44 provincial or ministerial-level projects. It has also conducted 23 commissioned research projects and has been recognized multiple times as an outstanding research collective.

国中院科研人员已出版著作200余部，包括译著37部、教材10部。代表性著作有：《西方早期汉学经典译丛》《当代海外汉学名著译丛》《国际汉学研究丛书》《文明互鉴：中国与世界丛书》《梵蒂冈图书馆藏明清中西文化交流史文献丛刊》《20世纪中国古代文化经典域外传播研究书系》《中国戏曲海外传播：文献、翻译与研究》书系10种等。出版僧伽罗语、波斯语、孟加拉语版《论语》，《经典儒学核心概念》《先秦儒家哲学文献译解》。组织出版《习近平总书记教育重要论述讲义》英语、法语、俄语、西语、阿语版。

To date, researchers at IICS-BFSU have published more than 200 books, including 37 translations and 10 textbooks. Representative works include: Western Classics of Early Sinology, Contemporary Overseas Sinology Series, Studies in International Sinology, Mutual Learning of Civilizations: China and the World, The Vatican Library Collection Of The History Of Cultural Exchange Of The Ming And Qing Dynasties Cultural Exchange History Series, Studies on the Overseas Dissemination of Chinese Classics in the 20th Century, and The Global Dissemination of Chinese Opera: Literature, Translation, and Research (10-volume series). The Institute has also published The Analects of Confucius in Sinhala, Persian, and Bengali, as well as core works such as A Conceptual Lexicon for Classical Confucian Philosophy and A Sourcebook in Classical Confucian Philosophy. It has coordinated the multilingual publication of Understanding Xi Jinping’s Educational Philosophy in English, French, Russian, Spanish, and Arabic.

国中院主办五种学术期刊：《国际汉学》《国际汉学译丛》《国际中国文化研究》《国际汉语教育史研究》《中国学刊》(Cahier de la Chine),形成中国学研究的中外文期刊方阵。其中《国际汉学》创刊于1995年，是改革开放以来国内第一份国际中国文化研究的 CSSCI 来源期刊。

IICS-BFSU publishes five academic journals: International Sinology, International Sinology Translation Series, International Journal of Chinese Studies, Studies in the History of International Chinese Language Education, and Cahier de la Chine. Together, they form a comprehensive publishing platform for Chinese studies in both Chinese and foreign languages. Among them, International Sinology, launched in 1995, is China’s first CSSCI-indexed journal dedicated to international Chinese cultural studies since the beginning of reform and opening-up.

北京市哲学社会科学重点研究基地“北京中外文化交流研究基地”挂靠国中院。国中院与国际儒学联合会共建“世界汉学家研修基地”；与圆明园管理处合作，设立北京外国语大学国际中国文化研究院圆明园研究中心。

The Institute also hosts the Beijing Cultural Exchange Center, a key research center designated by the Beijing Municipal Key Research Centre for Philosophy And Social Sciences. It co-established the “World Sinologists Fellowship Base” with the International Confucian Association and collaborates with the Administration of the Old Summer Palace to run the Yuanmingyuan Research Center of IICS-BFSU.

国中院2016年入选中国智库索引(CTTI)来源智库名单，位列A+级别；研究成果多次荣获国家高端智库优秀成果重大贡献奖，多次获得党和国家领导人批示。

In 2016, IICS-BFSU was listed as an A+ institution in the China Think Tank Index (CTTI). Its research outcomes have repeatedly won major awards for outstanding achievements in national high-end think tank projects and have received commendations from senior Party and state leaders.

国中院与十余所海外高校和机构建立了校级合作关系，定期进行教师交流互访，合作开展研究，其中包括欧洲的意大利罗马大学、法国滨海大学、圣彼得堡国立大学；美洲的美国夏威夷大学、美国纽约皇后图书馆、加拿大拉瓦尔大学；亚洲的印度国际大学、尼赫鲁大学等。

The Institute has established institutional partnerships with over a dozen overseas universities and organizations, maintaining regular academic exchanges and collaborative research programs. These include notable institutions such as Sapienza University of Rome and Université du Littoral in France, Saint Petersburg State University in Russia, the University of Hawaii and Queens Public Library in the United States, Laval University in Canada, as well as Visva-Bharati University and Jawaharlal Nehru University in India.

国中院汉学图书馆为北京外国语大学图书馆分馆，常年接待国内外读者。现藏已编目图书7164种,另藏有数百种纸质及缩微胶片形式的珍稀资料和重要文献。

The Institute also operates the Sinology Library, a branch of the BFSU Library, which is open year-round to readers from China and abroad. The collection includes 7,164 catalogued volumes, alongside hundreds of rare documents and key historical materials in both print and microfilm formats.