Date: February 3rd to 6th 2015 (Tuesday to Friday), 9 am to 1 pm

Place: Department for East Asian Studies, conference room (KWZ 0.701)

Lecturer: PD Dr. Johannes Reckel, specialist for Tungusic languages, Göttingen State and University Library

Teaching language: English

The purpose of this four-day workshop is to give an introduction to the Manchu language and script. The workshop is aimed at post-graduate sinologists and scholars of Chinese history who are doing research on the Manchu Qing Dynasty (1644-1912).

Text book reference: Gertraude Roth Li, Manchu: A Textbook for Reading Documents (Honolulu: National For- eign Language Resource Center, 2010, 2nd ed.).

Organizer: Dr. Julia C. Schneider (julia.schneider@phil.uni-goettingen.de)

For further information, please contact Dr. Julia C. Schneider