Project on Humanities and Social Sciences

　　By setting up a Lab on Humanities and Social Sciences, the project intends to achieve interdisciplinary integration, use the Geographic Information System (GIS) to construct Digital Social Maps, and study the social changes in Shilin District and better understand the structure of worldwide Glocalization.

Project on Arts and Aesthetics
http://www2.scu.edu.tw/artsco/paa/

　　Research is conducted first of all by the study of the theories of art and that of esthetics. Concerning the theory of art, the main areas of studies are writing systems (calligraphy), graphic representation, and sound, and concerning esthetic theory, the philosophy of esthetics.

Suzhou Research Project

　　The main research areas are the cultural developments in and around Suzhou city (in China) and how academic and cultural exchanges can take place between Suzhou and Taiwan (for example, in cultural matters, in the performance of the Kun style Chinese operas) and how Taiwan business enterprises operate in China.

Research Project on the Collection of Books Ancient and Present

　　This research center works in cooperation with the National Palace Museum to create a digital retrieval system for the Collection of Books Ancient and Present, containing about 170 million characters and over 10,000 pictures or illustrations, the index of which lists about six thousand book titles. It is by far the largest collection of books existing in China. Foreign scholars generally call it the Kang Xi Encyclopedia. The first phase of the research is already completed: it has produced the Palace Museum-Soochow University Search Engine for the Collection of Books Ancient and Present, a database with easy search program covering the complete text of the Collection.