Following the growing CIPSH meetings and other activities in Asia, an understanding was made on the interest for undertaking multidisciplinary research in the Humanities, focusing in the Chinese cultures, internally and in other continents, including in this the study of Chinese history and philosophical thoughts, of the interaction and influence between the Chinese and Asian diasporas with their host cultures, of their impact in the circulation of knowledge, as well as of Chinese and Asian Humanities as perceived from other regions and cultural traditions.