标题：北京大学外国语学院东方语言文化系
师资
我系曾先后更名为东方语言学系、东方语言文学系和东方学系。我系现有教师55人，其中教授14人(博导9人)、副教授23人、讲师 13人、助教5人。教师中具有博士学位的22人，在职攻读博士学位的教师9人，具有硕士学位的13人。现有在校本科生205人、硕士生62人、博士生22人，学生共计289人。建系50多年来，我们为国家输送了2850多名毕业生。
专业
我系现有波斯语言文化专业、朝鲜/韩国语言文化专业、菲律宾语言文化专业、蒙古语言文化专业、缅甸语言文化专业、泰国语言文化专业、印地（印度）语言文化专业、印尼-马来语言文化专业、越南语言文化专业、乌尔都语言文化专业、希伯莱语言文化专业和梵巴语言文化专业等12个专业，此外还设有东方文化研究室。 其中梵文巴利文语言文化专业和希伯莱语言文化专业属于全国高校中唯有的专业。另外，我系还有吐火罗语、于阗语、巴列维语、古叙利亚语、苏美尔语、阿卡德语、赫梯语和圣经希伯莱语等方面的 教师和研究学者。我系设有南亚语言文学和亚非语言文学两个硕士点和博士点。我系相继开设了亚洲相关国别语言、文学、文化、历史、民俗、社会、宗教思想，以及跨专业的东方文学、东方文化、语言学概论、古代近东 文明、古代印欧文化、南亚文化、东南亚文化等本科课程约210余门，硕士、博士研究生课程约130门，开设课程的数量为全国高校相关学科之冠。改革开放以来，我系实行教学和科研并重的方针，成立了东南亚文化研究所、南亚文化研究所、印尼-马来文化研究所、朝鲜文化研究所、 伊朗文化研究所、泰国研究所和希伯莱文化研究所等7个研究所。我系研究方向古今并重，包括对各种古代文化的研究，如苏美尔学、巴比伦- 亚述学、赫梯学、佛教学、敦煌学、中亚学等，和现代语言文化，如：波斯文化、伊斯兰文化、蒙古语言文化、南亚、东南亚多国语言与文化 等。我系是教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地“北京大学东方文学研究中心”的主体部分，也是教育部国家外语非通用语本科人才培养基地。
书籍
自80年代以来我系教师承担了国家、教育部以及国外有关学术机构的科研项目30多项，主办了国际学术会议10多次；出版教材20余部，专著和 编著70余部，译著50余部，发表论文960多篇。此外，编写出版了《印地语--汉语辞典》、《印地语成语辞典》、《汉语－波斯语词典》、《韩 中词典》、《缅甸语－汉语词典》、《新印度尼西亚汉语词典》、《印度尼西亚语－汉语大词典》、《印尼－汉语，汉语－印尼语实用词典》 、《中外关系史词典》、《汉朝动物名称词典》、《汉朝植物名称词典》、《简明汉缅－缅汉词典》、《现代越汉词典》、《汉泰词典》、《 波斯语汉语谚语-汉语波斯语成语词典》等大型工具书。 
Brief introduction of the Department of Oriental Languages and Cultures in the School of Foreign Languages
Founded in 1946 by Prof. Ji Xianlin, the prestigious Chinese orientalist, the Department of Oriental Languages and Cultures boasts the most numerous oriental languages majors among universities nationwide, with its splendid history in the field of educating and researching. The department has adopted such titles as the Department of Oriental Linguisitics, of Oriental Languages & Literatures and of Oriental Studies chronologically. 
The faculty consists of 55 teachers, including 14 professors(9 as tutors for Ph.D. students), 23 associate professors, 13 lecturers and 5 teaching assistants, among whom 22 with doctor's degree, 14 with master's degree and 9 on-job doctorates. There are totally 289 students in our department: 205 undergraduates, 62 postgraduates and 22 doctorates. In the history of more than 50 years since founded, the Department of Oriental Languages and Cultures has fostered more than 2,850 graduates for the country. 
The department boasts 12 languages and cultures majors: Persian, Korean, Philippine, Mongolian, Burmese, Thai, Hindi(Indian), Indonesian-Malaysian, Vietnamese, Urdu(Pakistani), Hebrew(Israeli), Sanskrit & Pali, with oriental cultures researching office in addition. Among all the majors, Sanskrit & Pali together with Hebrew(Israeli) are unique nationwide. Tow basis for degrees of M.A. and doctor on South Asian and Asian-African languages & literatures have been set up. Besides, teachers and scholars in the field of ancient languages like Tocharian, Khotanese, Pahlavi, Ancient Syrian, Akkadian, Hittite, Sumerian and Biblical Hebrew have been actively working in the department. Courses on languages, literatures, cultures, histories, folklores, societies and religions of different Asian countries have been set up for undergraduate students of language majors respectively, as well as general courses on oriental aethetics, oriental cultures, basic linguistics, ancient Near East civilization, ancient Indo-European cultures, south Asian cultures, Southeast Asian cultures and so on. There are also more than 130 course launched for postgraduates and doctorates. The number of courses tops other universities with relative departments all around China. Since the policy of reform and open, under the guideline of balanced emphasis on educating and researching, 7 institutes have been established in our department, including institutes of culture studies of Southeast Asia, South Asia, Indonesia-Malaysia, Korea, Iranian and Hebrew and Thailand research center.
The domains of study of our department is focused, on one hand, on ancient cultures researches as Sumerology, Assyriology, Hittitology, Buddism studies, Tunhuang studies, Mid-Asia studies and so on, on the other hand on the modern languages and cultures like Persian, Islamic, Mongolian, South Asian & Southeast Ssian countries. Our department acts as the main body of the Peking University Researching Center of Oriental Literatures, one of the key bases for human culture and social studies; meanwhile the department is the base of minor foreign languages educating, under the direction of Ministry of Education. Teachers in our department has shouldered up more than 30 research projects held by the Government, Ministry of Education and overseas academic institutes since the 1980s, hosted more than 10 international academic conferences; at the same time published more than 20 textbooks, 70 academic books, 50 translated works and more than 960 theses. In addition, our department has compiled and published dictionaries like Hindi-Chinese Dictionary, Hindi Idioms dictionary, Chinese-Persian dictionary, Korean-Chinese dictionary, the new Indonesian-Chinese dictionary, the practical Indonesian-Chinese & Chinese-Indonesian dictionary, The dictionary of China and foreign relations, the Chinese-Korean dictionary of zoology, the Chinese-Korean dictionary of botany, the brief Chinese-Burmese & Burmese-Chinese dictionary, the modern Vietnamese-Chinese dictionary, the Chinese-Thai dictionary, the Persian-Chinese & Chinese Persian dicitonary of proverbs and idioms and so on.