scholarly journals Learning Chinese in Vietnam: The Role of the Confucius Institute

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 71-86
Author(s):  
Natalia V. Selezneva
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Chinese Foreign Policy ◽  
Confucius Institute ◽  
Confucius Institutes ◽  
Cultural Connections

Southeast Asian countries have always been one of the priority regions of the Chinese foreign policy due both to the geographic proximity and to the long historical and cultural connections and new forms of economic and trade cooperation which have been formed on that basis. Vietnam supports close interaction with its northern neighbour not only in the Party matters, but also in the trade and economic, agricultural, tourism, educational, medical, and other spheres. Naturally, this suggests intense learning of the Chinese language on a large scale. China, in its turn, is interested in maintenance and increase of its positive image among the countries of Southeast Asia. That is why China applies various methods and tools of nonforce pressure, which are known as cultural soft power. One of these tools is the Confucius Institute (Classes). China considered it the site of promotion of the Chinese language and Chinese culture abroad. From the outside, Vietnam and China appear to move toward each other in the matter of teaching and learning Chinese, but the reality shows that the Vietnamese side is not hastening to join the Chinese initiative, striving to control the situation, and does not let the Chinese side expand the Confucius Institutes network in Vietnam. Also, the analysis of the situation has shown the insignificant role of the Confucius Institutes in teaching the Chinese language.

scholarly journals Image of Confucius Institute in Italian Media Discourse

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Marco Volpe ◽  
Li Qiuyang
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Considerable Increase ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Confucius Institute ◽  
International Dimension ◽  
Political Propaganda ◽  
Chinese Studies ◽  
The Press ◽  
Confucius Institutes

<p align="LEFT">Along with a considerable increase of the</p><p align="LEFT">people involved in studying Chinese culture and</p><p align="LEFT">Chinese language, Confucius Institute, initially</p><p align="LEFT">founded in 2004 in Seoul, South Korea,</p><p align="LEFT">provoked different reactions regarding to the</p><p align="LEFT">management and the activity held. Especially</p><p align="LEFT">on American press, the debate focused on what</p><p align="LEFT">the real aim of the project consists in, has been</p><p align="LEFT">retained responsible for political propaganda</p><p align="LEFT">and a threat for the academic freedom. Soon</p><p align="LEFT">the debate involved reporters, journalists,</p><p align="LEFT">Chinese Studies experts, sinologists and</p><p align="LEFT">Confucius Institutes directors from every part of</p><p>the world, leading the debate to an</p><p align="LEFT">international dimension. 32 articles published</p><p align="LEFT">since 2010 on the Italian national newspapers,</p><p align="LEFT">periodicals, specialized website and online</p><p align="LEFT">channels, have been collected and examined in</p><p align="LEFT">order to propose a critical analysis on how the</p><p align="LEFT">image of Confucius Institute is perceived in Italy</p><p align="LEFT">through examining the discourse of the Italian</p><p>press and the voices of the experts in the press.</p>

Confucius institutes in the US: Platform of promoting China’s soft power

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Confucius Institute ◽  
The Us ◽  
Confucius Institutes

AbstractThis study examines the driving force behind China’s “soft power” strategy and how Confucius Institute (CI) fits in the strategy. Drawing on data from the large-scale international surveys from PewResearchCenter and the ten

scholarly journals The Role of Confucius Institutes in Chinese Education in Russia (Based on the Example of Confucius Institute of the Humanitarian Institute, Novosibirsk State University)

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 176-186
Author(s):  
Xinhui Bi ◽  
Iuliia A. Azarenko
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Active Role ◽  
State University ◽  
Chinese Education ◽  
Confucius Institute ◽  
Effective Work ◽  
Confucius Institutes

With the increase of Sino-Russian cooperation in various fields, interest in Chinese is growing in Russia, which highlights the role of Confucius Institute to meet demand. Confucius Institute is a non-profit educational organization jointly established by China and other countries. Each of the 22 Confucius Institutes and classrooms in Russia present its distinctive feature and work hard in helping the Russian people learn Chinese, understand Chinese culture and enhance the humanist exchange between China and Russia. Chinese education is the most important task of the institutes. Using Confucius Institute of Novosibirsk State University as an example, this paper introduces works done by the institute from three aspects. Firstly, it contributes to Chinese education in the university. Secondly, it meets local residents’ needs to learn Chinese. Thirdly, it broadens the scope of regional cooperation and trains local Chinese teachers. With the support of Xinjiang University in China, the Confucius Institute at Novosibirsk State University has cooperated with many higher and secondary education institutions in Russia to expand international cooperation in Chinese education. The effective work of Confucius Institute at Novosibirsk State University has proved that it has played an active role in Chinese education. Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, all Confucius Institutes and classrooms in Russia have continued operating by taking advantage of online teaching and learning and explored the route of development characterized with “Internet + Chinese”. The authors believe that Confucius Institutes will keep on contributing to the Chinese education in Russia with the joint efforts of both parties.

scholarly journals A comparative study of the Confucius Institute in the United Kingdom and the British Council in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-63
Author(s):  
Liexu Cai
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Communication ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Confucius Institute ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
British Council ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Confucius Institutes ◽  
International Comparative

Since the first Confucius Institute was set up by the Chinese government for the promotion of Chinese language and culture overseas in 2004, the development of Confucius Institutes has become exponentially increasing. Currently, there are 29 Confucius Institutes in the United Kingdom among over 500 Confucius Institutes abroad; meanwhile, the activities of the British Council in China also became popular as one of the central paradigms for educational communication between China and the United Kingdom. Although there have been several studies on Confucius Institutes and British Council, respectively, little research exists about them from the international comparative perspective, with regard to both of them being cultural institutes abroad and the establishment of Confucius Institutes benefitting from the United Kingdom’s experience in promoting its national languages and culture. This article aims to discover the general similarities and differences between Confucius Institutes and the British Council in three aspects: the organisation structures and culture diffusion models, the language teaching and learning resources and activities, and the cooperation that the two institutes have with the other organisations.

scholarly journals China's Confucius Institutes and the "Necessary White Body"

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 647-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
National Language ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Confucius Institute ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Social Landscape ◽  
Distinct Process ◽  
Confucius Institutes ◽  
Canadian Multiculturalism

Abstract. Confucius Institutes (CIs), modelled on similar European organizations, promote China’s official national language and culture abroad. Unlike their European counterparts, however, the interactions between CIs and Canadian audiences are haunted by complex histories of a racialized “Oriental Other” in Canada and “Western Other” in China. Through ethnographic research on the Confucius Institute in Edmonton and the CI Headquarters in Beijing, this paper explores racialized representations of China and Chinese culture, as well as racialized understandings of the desired Western audience, in both locations. I argue that representations of Chinese culture are caught between two competing logics which I term reorientalism and reorientality. Reorientalism attempts to reclaim definitions of Chineseness and redress misunderstandings about China while simultaneously making China comprehensible and ultimately marketable through reorientality, or a use of familiar Orientalist tropes. Canadians (most often imagined and represented as white) are encouraged to engage with this reorientality through their own performance and embodiment of Chinese culture (a conceptually distinct process I call re-orientality) as a means of understanding the project of reorientalism. However, the spectacle of Chinese culture through CIs resonates with Canadian multiculturalism in ways that may unintentionally reproduce a social landscape that normalizes whiteness and the consumption of ethnicized Otherness.

The Literati and the Dao

2019 ◽  
pp. 373-392
Author(s):  
Scott Lash
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Holy Roman Empire ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The West ◽  
Imperial State

This chapter develops the argument that China is a civilizational state and follows a trajectory different from that of the Western nation-state. Weber is correct in selecting features of Chinese culture and social and political structure that stand in contrast to Western forms of rationalization: the role of magic, the particularism of guilds, the absence of the Western polis and Roman law, and the universalism demanded of Christianity in contrast to the religions of southeast Asia. Following Sheldon Pollock’s The Language of the Gods in the World of Men, the nature of language itself differentiates Latin in the West, Sanskrit in south and southeast Asia, and Chinese analogical language in China. Language, or langue-pensée, has a determining effect on stratification and configurations of power, especially in the development of the vernacularization of language as a precondition for the nation-state. China, in contrast to India and the West, resisted vernacularization. It is as if the West had kept to the Latin of the Holy Roman Empire. The nature of Chinese language therefore is intrinsic to the civilization and imperial state in China to this day.

scholarly journals Organization Structure, Operation Mode and Management Mechanism in Confucius Institute of Barcelona

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Gao Bo ◽  
Chang An ◽  
Chang Shiru
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Language ◽  
Operation Mode ◽  
Organization Structure ◽  
Cultural Activity ◽  
Management Mechanism ◽  
Organizational System ◽  
Confucius Institute ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
Chinese Language Teaching ◽  
Confucius Institutes

<p align="LEFT">Focusing on the organizational system,</p><p align="LEFT">operation mode and mechanism of Confucius</p><p align="LEFT">Institute of Barcelona, this paper explores the</p><p align="LEFT">successful experience, current problems and</p><p align="LEFT">solutions of Confucius Institute of Barcelona.</p><p align="LEFT">This study involves the issues of administration,</p><p>Chinese language teaching, cultural activity,</p><p align="LEFT">relations and integration with the local</p><p align="LEFT">government, aiming at summarizing the</p><p align="LEFT">successful experience of Confucius Institute of</p><p align="LEFT">Barcelona in order to provide reference for the</p><p align="LEFT">construction of Confucius Institutes, especially</p><p align="LEFT">the ones in Spanish-speaking countries and</p><p align="LEFT">further spreading the Chinese language and</p><p>culture globally.</p>

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