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It has numerous subdivisions, including three separate Confucius Institute divisions in charge of Asian and African, American and Oceanian, and European regions. [1] In 2014, The Economist labeled Hanban a "government entity". [5] Hanban has been criticized for its Confucius Institute program and for the actions of former Director General Xu Lin.
Hanban provides examples of the exam for the different levels together with a list of words that need to be known for each level. [25] These examples are also available (together with the audio for the Listening Test) on the websites of the Confucius Institute at QUT [26] and HSK Academy. [27]
The first Confucius Institute opened in 2004 in Seoul, South Korea, [14]: 166 after establishing a pilot institute in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in June 2004. The CI in South Korea is no longer active. The second Confucius Institute was opened on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park, also in November 2004. [15]
In 2010, Hanban asserted that the HSK's six levels corresponded to the six levels of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). [7] However, the German, [ 8 ] : 1, 3, 5 French and Italian [ 9 ] associations of Chinese language teachers argued that HSK Level 6 is only equivalent to CEFR Level B1/B2/C1 (about TOCFL Level 4 ...
NEOMA Business School, after being specifically selected by the Hanban, launched in 2014 the first Confucius Institute for Business of France, and the seventh in the world. [13] [14] Other Confucius Institutes for Business are notably present in the London School of Economics [15] and the New York State University. [16]
Then it is the expansion period (1992 - today). The academy put effort in building Confucius statues and temples around the world, sponsoring and encouraging Confucius studies and organizing major seminars. When the Confucian Academy was first established, funding was extremely difficult. They rented a site for operation.
The Unified Examination Certificate (UEC) (Chinese: 华文独立中学统一考试; pinyin: huá wén dú lì zhōng xué tǒng yī kǎo shì) is a standardised test for Chinese independent high school students organised by the UCSCAM since 1975. The UEC is available in three levels: Junior Middle (UEC-JML), Vocational (UEC-V), and Senior ...
On 13 August 2020, the United States Department of State designated the headquarters of the Confucius Institute in the U.S. as a foreign mission of the Chinese government. This designation has been protested by the Center in an open letter to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.