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Confucius Institute of Brittany in Rennes, France A Confucius Institute at Seneca College in Toronto, Canada. Confucius Institutes (CI; Chinese: 孔子学院; pinyin: Kǒngzǐ Xuéyuàn) are public educational and cultural promotion programs funded and arranged currently by the Chinese International Education Foundation [] (CIEF), a government-organized non-governmental organization (GONGO ...
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.
The Braga incident was a 2014 academic scandal in which Xu Lin, the Director-General (zhǔrèn 主任) of the Hanban and Chief Executive (zǒnggànshi 总干事) of the Confucius Institute Headquarters ordered her staff to remove pages referring to Taiwanese academic institutions from the published program for the European Association for Chinese Studies July–August conference in Braga ...
Hanban's Confucius China Studies Program, and recommended restaurants in Braga (15/16) the book exhibition and library donation organized by the Taiwan National Central Library as well as other publishers exhibiting books, and Dr. Sun Lam and Ambassador Joao de Deus Ramos, the keynote speaker (19/20, not removed from some copies)
The Confucius Institute at Transilvania University of Brașov was established in 2012, being created in partnership with Jianzhu University in Shenyang, China and operating under a cooperation agreement between Transilvania University in Brașov and Hanban – the Headquarters of the Confucius Institutes in Beijing.
The university's vice-chancellor, Peter Høj, had previously been a senior consultant to Hanban. [55] Several Confucius Institute contracts included clauses requiring the host university to follow Confucius Institute Headquarters' edicts on "teaching quality", raising concerns about foreign influence and academic freedom. [56]
The only time the Confucius Institute surfaced in minutes during Moreno's tenure was September 2011, when officials said the program was working to hire a third teacher.
The Confucius Institute program began in 2004 and is financed by the quasi-governmental Office of Chinese Language Council International (colloquially, Hanban), which is chaired by Politburo member and Vice Premier Liu Yandong, former head of the United Front Work Department. [8]