The department offers, besides lectures on the fields covered by the full-time members, lectures on such subjects as modern literature after the period of the Republic of China, which are conducted by Professors belonging to the Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, the Institute for Research in Humanities and part-time lecturers from outside the university. Every year a part-time Chinese lecturer gives lessons in Chinese conversation and composition.

The students and the graduates of the department have or-ganized the Chinese Literature Association, which publishes Chugoku Bungakuho (Journal of Chinese Literature) twice yearly and holds occasional symposiums and lecture meetings.

• http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/chinese/ (in Japanese)