Recently, the official list of approved projects for the 2025 National Social Science Fund Special Project for Rare and Endangered Disciplines has been officially released. The research project Morphosyntactic Research on Khitan Language and Corpus Construction, led by Dr. Li Siqi from the School of Foreign Languages, has been successfully approved as an Individual Scholar Project. This is the first time that the SFL has been granted this special project, marking a new stage in the SFL’s research in this field.

2025 National Social Science Fund Special Project for Rare and Endangered Disciplines

 Approved Projects by the School of Foreign Languages 

Project Title：Morphosyntactic Research on Khitan Language and Corpus Construction

Approval Number：25VJXG001

Principal Investigator：Li Siqi

The National Social Science Fund Special Project for Rare and Endangered Disciplines is an important initiative to implement Xi Jinping Thought on Culture and strengthen the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage. It focuses on supporting research on endangered disciplines that are of great significance to national development, cultural inheritance and cultural security, or that fill academic gaps.

 The approval of this project highlights the SFL’s academic accumulation and cutting-edge advantages in the fields of corpus linguistics and digital humanities, and represents a major breakthrough achieved by the SFL in actively aligning with national cultural strategies and devoting itself to the research of rare and endangered disciplines. The SFL will attach great importance to and fully support the implementation and advancement of the project to ensure that the research plan is firmly implemented and completed with high quality. Taking this opportunity, the SFL will further promote interdisciplinary integration and innovation in research methods, and strive to produce a number of landmark achievements with significant cultural inheritance value and academic influence.

Brief Introduction to the Principal Investigator

Li Siqi holds a PhD from Hitotsubashi University, Japan. He is a Lecturer and Master’s Supervisor at the School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His main research areas include Khitan language and writing, as well as Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges. He has published many academic papers and presides over one general project of the Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Planning Program.