The Development Course of Simian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities in East China Normal University

The Institute of Advanced Studies is a substantive humanities research institution directly under the school, based on "China Thought Tradition and Cultural Change" 985 National Innovation Base of Philosophy and Social Sciences, China Institute of Modern Thought and Culture, Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, and China Character Research and Application Center.

The Institute of Advanced Studies implements the president responsibility system under the leadership of the Council, and has an academic committee responsible for talent recruitment and evaluation of academic achievements. There are 6 research centers and 20 mobile scientific research institutions, which provide first-class research conditions and introduce outstanding talents at all academic levels at home and abroad; Accept different types of visiting professors, part-time professors and visiting scholars to study in the college; Recruit graduate students and postdoctoral students independently.

Advanced research institutes hold various academic activities in the form of academic seminars, academic forums, special seminars and academic salons, and carry out multi-level academic cooperation and exchanges with important academic research institutions at home and abroad; There are lectures on ape humanities, and famous scholars at home and abroad are invited to give lectures; Under its jurisdiction, Simian Humanities Library collects more than 200,000 books and newspapers with various characteristics. Simian Humanities Network has been established, which has many large databases, such as China ancient books, China modern thoughts, China modern literature, China text digitization, Jiangnan research, overseas China research and so on. , for public access and use by domestic and foreign readers.

The goal of the Institute of Advanced Studies is to become a first-class comprehensive research institution of humanities with international influence after several years of construction.