With funds from the Fulbright East Asia Pacific regional travel program (RTP), Professor Xun LIU of Rutgers University, a US Fulbright Scholar in China in 2017-2018, was able to visit Kansai University in Osaka, Japan from March 1 to 8, 2018. On March 6, he gave a public lecture on his Fulbright-funded research project entitled “Daoist Patronage and Practice of Literati Arts, Elite Culture, and Local Politics in Late Qing Nanyang” at the Institute for Oriental and Occidental Studies at Kansai University. During his stay in the Kansai area, he was also able to visit Bukkyo and Kyoto universities.”

Prof. Liu giving the talk at IOOS of Kansai University

Prof. Liu greeted by Prof. Azuma, Dir of IOOC.

From left to right: Dr. Yamada Akihiro (Nara Gakuin University); Prof. Azuma Shigeru (Kansai), Prof. Nikaido Yoshihiro (Kansai), Prof. Xun Liu (Rutgers), Prof. Ogata Toru (Osaka University), Dr. Ikehira Noriko (Kobe Industrial University)

Prof. Xun Liu in front of Nakanoshima Library’s Rare Books Section