{"id":47318,"date":"2019-03-28T13:06:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T20:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.edu\/?p=47318"},"modified":"2019-03-28T13:06:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T20:06:31","slug":"what-are-confucius-institutes-and-do-they-teach-chinese-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/what-are-confucius-institutes-and-do-they-teach-chinese-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Confucius Institutes and do they teach Chinese propaganda?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Confucius-Institutes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Confucius-Institutes.jpg 680w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Confucius-Institutes-250x141.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><br \/>\nGovernment concerns about Chinese influence in Australia continue. One example is the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dfat.gov.au\/international-relations\/pages\/foreign-influence-transparency-scheme.aspx\">Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme<\/a>, which seeks to provide for the public and government<\/p>\n<p><em>visibility of the nature, level and extent of foreign influence on Australia\u2019s government and political process.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It has been reported the Attorney-General\u2019s Department has written to universities that host\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/politics\/federal\/china-funded-confucius-institutes-targeted-under-new-foreign-influence-scheme-20190312-p513i1.html\">Confucius Institutes<\/a>, asking them to register the institutes under the scheme. Confucius Institutes are Chinese language and culture centres set up through partnerships between an Australian university, a Chinese university and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/english.hanban.org\/node_7719.htm\">Hanban<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 an organisation directly under China\u2019s Ministry of Education.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/china-funded-confucius-institutes-belong-on-foreign-influence-register-20190325-p517bg.html\">Critics<\/a>\u00a0of these institutes consider that the funding Hanban provides gives China influence, if not control, over Chinese language and culture education. But universities have so far\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/politics\/federal\/foreign-influence-showdown-as-universities-decline-to-register-china-funded-confucius-institutes-20190315-p514kq.html\">reportedly chosen not<\/a>\u00a0to register the institutes under the scheme. This indicates they may not consider the institutes\u2019 actions as falling under the scheme\u2019s scope.<\/p>\n<p>So, what are Confucius Institutes, and do they teach Chinese propaganda?<\/p>\n<h4><strong>What are they?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Australia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/english.hanban.org\/node_10971.htm\">has 14 Confucius Institutes<\/a>\u00a0at 13 universities and one in the New South Wales Department of Education. There are also 67 Confucius Classrooms, which support Chinese language education in schools. These are usually attached to a Confucius Institute.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/english.hanban.org\/node_10971.htm\">Hanban\u2019s website<\/a>, Confucius Institutes:<\/p>\n<p><em>have provided scope for people all over the world to learn about Chinese language and culture. In addition they have become a platform for cultural exchanges between China and the world as well as a bridge reinforcing friendship and cooperation between China and the rest of the world [\u2026]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The usual process for establishing a Confucius Institute involves Chinese and Australian universities jointly submitting an application to Hanban. If approved, Hanban and the Australian university provide equal funding.<\/p>\n<p>Hanban provides start-up funding, annual funding of US$100,000, teaching material and teaching staff. The Australian university provides office space and a director. The Chinese university supplies a deputy director and sometimes teaching materials and teaching staff.<\/p>\n<p>Confucius Institutes are established on five-year contracts, which can be renewed. Schools that host a Confucius Classroom\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/nsw\/behind-confucius-classrooms-the-chinese-government-agency-teaching-nsw-school-students-20160525-gp3882.html\">receive<\/a>\u00a0A$10,000 in upfront funding, as well as books and other materials to the value of about A$10,000 each year.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>What do they teach?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>All Confucius Institutes teach Chinese language and culture but the nature of what they offer varies. Language courses may focus on everyday Chinese, such as those at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/confucius-institute\/programs\/learn-chinese.html\">University of Sydney\u2019s Confucius Institute<\/a>, or business Chinese, such as those at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/confuciusinstitute.unimelb.edu.au\/?q=confuciusinstitute-business-programs\">University of Melbourne\u2019s Confucius Institute<\/a>. The culture courses can vary too, from calligraphy to cooking to tai chi.<\/p>\n<p>Many Confucius Institutes also run a range of activities and events for a general audience. The University of Adelaide\u2019s Confucius Institute, for instance, runs a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/confucius.adelaide.edu.au\/chinabriefings\/\">China Briefing Series<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 public lectures on political, economic and cultural developments in China.<\/p>\n<p>Confucius Institutes might also organise translating and interpreting services, administer the Chinese language proficiency test, coordinate\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/confuciusinstitute.unsw.edu.au\/learn-us\/chinese-bridge-competition\/\">language competitions<\/a>\u00a0and arrange study tours to China.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_47320\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47320\" src=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/learningChinese.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/learningChinese.jpg 680w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/learningChinese-250x167.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-47320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Confucius Classrooms support Chinese language education in schools. from shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nSome Confucius Institutes specialise in a certain area. The one at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qut.edu.au\/about\/confucius-institute\">QUT<\/a>, for instance, specialises in professional development for teachers and in supporting Chinese language and culture education in schools. The one at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.griffith.edu.au\/tourism-confucius-institute\">Griffith University<\/a>\u00a0focuses on language and culture training for tourism purposes. The Confucius Institute at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmit.edu.au\/about\/our-education\/academic-schools\/health-and-biomedical-sciences\/about\/chinese-medicine-confucius-institute\">RMIT University<\/a>\u00a0mainly teaches Chinese medicine.<\/p>\n<p>These courses are short and aimed at the general public or specific audiences such as business people. For the most part Confucius Institutes don\u2019t offer courses for credits that count towards a university degree. But institute staff may do some teaching in Chinese language courses offered by the university.<\/p>\n<p>A student undertaking a university degree could do a course through an institute but this would not be part of their degree. The University of Queensland\u2019s Confucius Institute, for example, offers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/confucius-institute.centre.uq.edu.au\/chinese-language-and-culture\">free courses<\/a>\u00a0in Chinese language and culture to students and staff. Students could also participate in the activities and events run by the institutes.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Is there Chinese influence?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The materials Hanban provides, including textbooks, are published in China but it\u2019s up to the institute if and how to use them. One director\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/12119194\/Chinas_Cultural_Projection_A_Discussion_of_the_Confucius_Institutes\">told me<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We get more than 3,000 books, journals and also DVDs, which are very useful in our classroom teaching.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The University of Sydney\u2019s courses are based on the textbook series\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheng-tsui.com\/browse\/textbooks\/integrated-chinese-third-edition\/integrated-chinese-level-1-part-1-3rd-ed-textbook?id=20468\">Integrated Chinese<\/a>, published by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheng-tsui.com\/\">Cheng &amp; Tsui<\/a>, an independent publisher based in Boston, USA.<\/p>\n<p>Confucius Institute staff I\u2019ve spoken to have said such materials don\u2019t push Chinese government propaganda. As one director\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com.au\/books?id=YDU8DwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PP85&amp;lpg=PP85&amp;dq=if+you+look+at+the+actual+content,+they+are+as+innocent+as+strawberries.+They+look+like+the+language+teaching+material+for+any+other+language+you+might+want+to+pick+up+from+a+democratic+parliamentary+state&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=B1dKjqt1NA&amp;sig=ACfU3U09xuoYkqZjhd_UBghOCizfZSRopQ&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiE2ve9y6DhAhXVfSsKHfTlA2UQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ%20-%20v=onepage&amp;q=if%20you%20look%20at%20the%20actual%20content%2C%20they%20are%20as%20innocent%20as%20strawberries.%20They%20look%20like%20the%20language%20teaching%20material%20for%20any%20other%20language%20you%20might%20want%20to%20pick%20up%20from%20a%20de#v=onepage&amp;q=if%20you%20look%20at%20the%20actual%20content%2C%20they%20are%20as%20innocent%20as%20strawberries.%20They%20look%20like%20the%20language%20teaching%20material%20for%20any%20other%20language%20you%20might%20want%20to%20pick%20up%20from%20a%20de&amp;f=false\">put it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>If you look at the actual content, they are as innocent as strawberries. They look like the language teaching material for any other language you might want to pick up from a democratic parliamentary state.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The concerns of the institutes are of a more practical, rather than political, nature. At a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lcnau.org\/colloquia\/national-colloquium-2017\/\">languages and cultures university colloquium<\/a>\u00a0in 2017, for example, a teacher working at a Confucius Classroom explained that the TV, desktop computer and printer Hanban donated were not useful because the school was already equipped with smartboards and teachers had laptops. He also said students were unable to read the books Hanban had donated.<\/p>\n<p>Confucius Institutes do nevertheless focus on the positive aspects of China. A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/10357823.2018.1511684\">recent study<\/a>\u00a0of Confucius Institutes\u2019 activities, including some Australian ones, found they focused on traditional Chinese culture and generally avoided politics. Sensitive topics such as the Tiananmen Square massacre or the issue of Tibet were ignored.<\/p>\n<p>The study reasonably concludes Confucius Institutes portray a selective, rather than propagandistic, view of China. Whether this means Confucius Institutes are deemed to be exerting influence on the part of the Chinese government will be an interesting test of the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Author Bio: <\/strong>Jeffrey Gil is a Senior Lecturer in ESOL\/TESOL, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government concerns about Chinese influence in Australia continue. One example is the\u00a0Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme, which seeks to provide for the public and government visibility of the nature, level and extent of foreign influence on Australia\u2019s government and political process. It has been reported the Attorney-General\u2019s Department has written to universities that host\u00a0Confucius Institutes, asking [&hellip;]\n&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/what-are-confucius-institutes-and-do-they-teach-chinese-propaganda\/\" class=\"more\">learn more&rarr;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":47319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15645],"tags":[295184],"coauthors":[11733],"class_list":["post-47318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-confucius-institutes"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What are Confucius Institutes and do they teach Chinese propaganda? - World leading higher education information and services<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/what-are-confucius-institutes-and-do-they-teach-chinese-propaganda\/\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What are Confucius Institutes and do they teach Chinese propaganda? - World leading higher education information and services\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Government concerns about Chinese influence in Australia continue. 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