{"id":1847,"date":"2014-06-25T15:17:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T15:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2014-06-25T15:17:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T15:17:38","slug":"the-price-of-confucius-institutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/the-price-of-confucius-institutes","title":{"rendered":"The price of Confucius Institutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">BY EDITORIAL BOARD June 21<\/span><br \/>\nEDUCATIONAL EXCHANGES between the United States and China have grown to record numbers. With these programs come scholarly value but also risks.<\/p>\n<p>Confucius Institutes offer an example of this trade-off. <!--more-->These centers, heavily funded and supported by the Chinese government, offer Chinese language and culture classes around the world. But unlike Germany\u2019s Goethe-Institut or the U.K.\u2019s British Council, many are established directly inside U.S. universities. It\u2019s this combination of linkage and Chinese control that carries risk.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the American Association of University Professors called on almost a hundred U.S. universities to reexamine their ties with Beijing\u2019s signature cultural outpost. \u201cOccasionally university administrations have entered into partnerships that sacrificed the integrity of the university,\u201d the association wrote. \u201cConfucius Institutes function as an arm of the Chinese state and are allowed to ignore academic freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chinese officials have said that these institutes are key to expanding the country\u2019s soft power, and constitute \u201can important part of China\u2019s overseas propaganda setup.\u201d They\u2019ve proliferated quickly, with China aiming to hit \u201c500 large cities across the world by 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Better soft power than the alternative. But educational exchange should not come at the expense of free speech \u2014 especially not with the help of the U.S. academic community.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/the-price-of-confucius-institutes\/2014\/06\/21\/4d7598f2-f7b6-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY EDITORIAL BOARD June 21 EDUCATIONAL E &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/the-price-of-confucius-institutes\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[419],"views":1159,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1848,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions\/1848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}