{"id":1768,"date":"2014-06-24T01:41:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T01:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2014-06-24T01:41:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T01:41:40","slug":"the-debate-over-confucius-institutes%ef%bc%9aa-chinafile-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/the-debate-over-confucius-institutes%ef%bc%9aa-chinafile-conversation","title":{"rendered":"The Debate Over Confucius Institutes\uff1aA ChinaFile Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"

ROBERT KAPP, JEFFREY WASSERSTROM 06.23.14<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nDressed in ancient costume, people kneel in front of a statue of Confucius during a ceremony to mark his birthday in Changchun, Jilin province.
\nLast week, the American Association of University Professors joined a growing chorus of voices calling on North American universities to rethink their relationship with Confucius Institutes, the state-sponsored Chinese-language programs whose policies critics say are anathema to academic freedom. We asked contributors to discuss the debate. Specifically: the costs and benefits of having a Confucius Institute on a university campus; the economic forces at play; and the role of China in university life more broadly. \u2014The Editors<\/p>\n

Beijing\u2019s Confucius Institute effort on American campuses has its ancestry in Republic of China, Republic of Korea, and perhaps other countries\u2019 efforts to \u201cdo well by doing good\u201d in American academia. It should not be viewed as uniquely insidious, in spite of China\u2019s exceptionally rapid economic and strategic ascent in recent years. To view the CIs through the prism of a looming Chinese threat to the core elements of American national life, material, military, or moral, is a mistake.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nowadays, Big China is indeed on a roll, publicly entertaining a \u201cChinese Dream\u201d of national \u201crejuvenation,\u201d but at the same time pondering how to be received by others as something more attractive than a gate crasher. The leadership\u2019s steady concern, for the past decade or more, with Public Diplomacy\u2014combined with its bulging coffers and the never-ending reminders of America\u2019s Wow Factor on the world stage (LeBron James, \u201cTransformers,\u201d Starbucks)\u2014are leading Official China to grapple with the problem of what defines China for its own inhabitants and what defines China for everyone else on earth.<\/p>\n

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