Department for Chinese, South and Southeast Asian Studies

At the end of November, the HSE – Saint Petersburg hosted a new meeting from the “Culture Café” series which was focused on Russian-Chinese student mobility. Russian students talked about their experience of studying and living in China, and Chinese students who came to HSE on mobility shared information about the cities they live in, their universities, as well as their impressions of Saint Petersburg and HSE.

Starting from this year, teaching of modern languages of Southeast Asia at our University has been enriched by the study and teaching of Old Javanese which is one of the ancient Nusantara languages. In the framework o of project activities under the supervision of Alexandra Kasatkina, associate professor of the Department of history, students can now get acquainted with cultural tradition of ancient Java and written records of Indonesia from the pre-Islamic period.

In early September 2024, Anastasia Usyk, a graduate of the Bachelor’s Programme in Asian and African Studies at HSE University in St Petersburg, participated in the final round of the ‘Chinese Bridge’ International Language Competition in Beijing, where she won the first prize in online voting and received the Audience Award and the Award for Most Outstanding Performance. She spoke about her experience in the competition, her studies and future plans in an interview with HSE News Service.