Research Fellow in Boya (Liberal Arts) College

1. About Us

Boya (Liberal Arts) College is a learning community founded by Sun Yat-sen University dedicated to liberal education in 2009. To counter the over-utilitarian approaches to higher education merely designed for competitiveness in the global economy, our college adopts approaches keener to classical liberal education emphasizing the value of broad learning and humanistic education in cultivating students’ free mind and their civic and ethical responsibilities in an interdependent and diverse world. Boya’s motto is “Integrating the ancients and the moderns, the East and the West”.

Our college offers six majors, which are literature, history, philosophy, politics, sociology and law, for undergraduate students, and has master programs in literature, history and philosophy, and Ph.D. programs in philosophy and literature. More than 85% undergraduates pursue further studies home and abroad after graduation and over 30% have been enrolled into QS Top 100 universities. Our practices and achievements in higher education are acknowledged by Guangdong Provincial 1^st Prize for Teaching in Higher Education (2017) and National 2^nd Prize for Teaching in Higher Education (2018).

Faculty members and research fellows of our college have academic training background in the various fields of Humanities and Social Sciences. We have already established cooperative and mutual constructive relationships with overseas universities and academic institutes, such as Cambridge University (U.K.), University of St. Andrews (U.K.), St. John’s College (U.S.) and University of California, Los Angeles (U.S.), etc. We endeavor to form an interdisciplinary academic research and exchange platform, which focuses on Sino-Western Classics, Comparative studies of Civilizations, Comparative studies of Modern Transformation inside and outside China.

2. Disciplines

Applicants with the following background are welcomed:

(1) Ancient Greek and Roman studies
(2) Studies on Confucian and Neo-Confucian classics
(3) Middle Age studies
(4) Studies on modern western political philosophy and social theories
(5) Studies on cultural and academic transformation in modern China
(6) Literature and art studies from the perspective of intellectual history
(7) Studies on history of civilizational communications and comparative studies of civilizations
(8) Studies on early western Sinology

3. Qualifications

Have comparatively great academic potentials and achieved comparatively great research results by publishing no less than two outstanding academic works in principle; for those who have made particularly significant achievements, the number of their works could be reduced to one; be an outstanding doctoral student or postdoctor from a well-known domestic or international higher education institute or research institute.

4. Remunerations and Benefits

1. Salary and Benefits: The University provides generous salary, research start-up fee, talent allowance, and settlement allowance. Talents working in Zhuhai and Shenzhen campuses can enjoy subsidies of the local campuses.
2. Housing Support: Talents can apply for the university's public rental housing. There are 1,200 new apartments in the Guangzhou campus; more than 1,000 new apartments and 1,500 new shared property houses in the Zhuhai campus; and 3,600 new talent indemnificatory apartments in the Shenzhen campus.
3. Quality Healthcare: There are 10 SYSU affiliated hospitals that provide high-level healthcare service.
4. Children Education: SYSU has constructed affiliated primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in Guangzhou, Zhuhai and Shenzhen campuses to provide high-quality elementary education for the children of faculty members.
5. Employee Wellbeing: Provides "sports time"; free use of sports facilities on campus; and annual health checkup. The Zhuhai campus provides meal subsidies.

5. Contacts

Contact Person：Ms. Xie

Email: xlxin@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Tel: 86-20-84110564

Website: http://lac.sysu.edu.cn/

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