The staff of the Centre for Asian Studies sends the Season’s greetings to all of you and wishes you to have a merry Christmas and happy New Year.
In most of the East Asian countries New Year will start only from February 19th. According to the traditional Chinese calendar the upcoming year will be a continuation of the last year’s blue – green tree element period, however the horse is going to be chased out by the stubborn goat. So next year, let’s embrace the stubbornness in a good way and allow it to help us complete every project or task in hand.

Year 2014 was a fruitful period for VMU. The list of our staff and professors became longer – Daiva Repečkaitė, Yumiko Nunokawa, Wang Baidi and Erika Griučkaitytė joined us one by one during the year.
Also, Confucius Institute’s teaching point was established at the university, the event itself being a wonderful result of the great relationship with VU Confucius Institute. What is more, this year VMU became an institution with the biggest Asian studies program in Lithuania due to the rapidly growing numbers of our RASK students. And of course, the online East Asian directory was successfully launched, with an amazing possibility for the students to develop it’s contents themselves, this way allowing everyone to participate in expanding Lithuania’s knowledge about the far-away countries.

We are extremely thankful to our Sopanet network – thank you for guiding us and taking care of us. We thank the clubs who are growing and maturing each season – we deeply appreciate your constant help with various events and projects. We gladly remember our graduate students that are spread around the world and finally found their place under the sun.

Thank YOU for being with us!!!!

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