Institute of Chinese Studies

The Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) is a 50-year old multi-disciplinary institute that undertakes research and capacity building activities on issu Read morees relating to East Asia (China, Japan and the Koreas). Some of its marquee activities include the publication of China Report, a highly rated peer-reviewed quarterly journal in its 56th year of publication, conducting weekly Wednesday Seminars since 1969, organising the All India Conference of China Studies (AICCS) which is in its twelfth year and the annual India Forum on China which was launched in 2017, and administering the prestigious ICS-HYI Fellowships in collaboration with the Harvard-Yenching Institute. ICS has partnerships with over forty organisations and access to a global network of East Asia scholars. The Governing Council of ICS is chaired by Prof. Patricia Uberoi, an eminent Sinologist and Sociologist, while the Advisory Board is headed by Ambassador Shivshankar Menon, a former Indian Ambassador to China, Foreign Secretary and National Security Advisor, Government of India. A former Ambassador of India to China, Ashok K. Kantha is the Director since April 2017. Several notable charities have supported the ICS including the Tata Trusts, Pirojsha Godrej Foundation, Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation, Ford Foundation, Japan Foundation, Gargi and Vidya Prakash Dutt Foundation and the Fung Foundation. It also receives project-based funding from ICSSR and the Ministry of External Affairs. ICS’s current areas of strength include China’s domestic politics, international relations, history, health, education, border studies, language and culture, and India-China comparative studies. It seeks to grow and diversify its sponsorship base in order to undertake a wider variety of research and capacity building activities in several contemporary fields such as trade and investment, technology, data governance, law, etc. for which institutional sources of funding are limited. If you have appreciated any ICS publication or event, or wish to see ICS expand its activities in more areas please do consider making a small donation.