A portrait of Confucius
Author: Hill
The Confucius Institute, once seen as China's propaganda of cultural soft power to the world, was forced to change its name because of its infamous reputation abroad. Twitter and Weibo have suddenly circulated a document issued by the Chinese Ministry of Education, saying that the headquarters of the Confucius Institute will be renamed the "Chinese and Foreign Language Exchange Center of the Ministry of Education ", and no longer use the name" National Han Office ".
The confucius institute has now become the target of criticism, according to Apple Daily citation analysis, and the chinese communist party has played the trick of "pouring soup without changing medicine ", but in the global trend of" doubt "," rejection "and even" resistance ", even if it is a change of face, it can not escape the reputation of being a "brainwashing machine" of the communist party.
The Apple Daily reported that the famous Confucius Institute is suspected of changing its name to the "Chinese and Foreign Language Exchange Center of the Ministry of Education ". Although the official website of the Confucius Institute headquarters/National Han Office still exists, Apple found that the Chinese and Foreign language exchange center of the Ministry of Education started to operate and gradually replaced the role of the National Han Office.
Mainland chinese internet users don't think so, arguing that confucius has n' t worked well overseas for many years, and that "such a stupid institution is better renamed than abolished ".
The document issued by the Ministry of Education stated that, in order to further improve the work of Chinese-foreign language exchange and cooperation, the headquarters of the Confucius Institute had been renamed as the Chinese-foreign language exchange and cooperation center of the Ministry of Education, and the name "National Chinese Office (English HANBAN)" was no longer used outside the country, following a decision by the Ministry's party group. The document also states that the main responsibilities of the Centre are: to participate in the formulation and implementation of the overall international Chinese education strategy and series of national standards, to build and manage the international Chinese education resources system, to run international Chinese education projects, and to carry out relevant international exchanges and cooperation.
According to Apple, the official website (www.hanban.org) of the Confucius Institute headquarters/National Office of the Han People's Republic of China is still "alive" and there is no notice to change its name. However, a copy of the "Book number for Open Chinese as a Foreign Language Course" circulated on 30 social app last month shows that the Ministry of Education's Chinese-foreign language exchange center has been set up and is operational, including co-sponsoring the 2020 National Chinese Conference. The text also refers to the Ministry of Education's Chinese-foreign language exchange center, formerly known as the "Confucius Institute Headquarters/National Han Office ", and the director of the center, Dr. Ma Jianfei, before the title is the Secretary of the National Han Office Party Committee, Deputy Director-General of Confucius Institute headquarters, Deputy Director-General of the National Han Office. "Confucius Institute on the Internet" has been renamed "Chinese alliance ".," it said As for the Chinese and Foreign Language Exchange Center of the Ministry of Education, there is still no relevant information on the Internet and no publicity has been given to the center by the official media.
According to the Apple Daily,, for this change in the headquarters of the Confucius Institute, many of the mainland's "mind water clear netizens" pointed directly, Confucius Institute "because of the reputation stink, think that a change of name can cover people's eyes ", but also ridiculed :" to change the brothel into Qinglou, Yihong Yuan, prostitutes to grow up three, Mo 2, smoke, books and so on, what is the essential difference? It's just mystifying, fooling foreigners. "Even more so, the method of promoting the soft power of Chinese culture has been ineffective, has spent a lot taxpayer money, but has been" suspected of cultural aggression "by foreigners, angry :" such a stupid institution, change its name is better than cancel ".
As a Confucius Institute that promotes the soft power of Chinese culture, it began in the Jiang Zemin era and was personally promoted by Li Changchun, then member of the Politburo Standing Committee. It was formally established in the Hu Jintao era in 2004, and the Chinese government funded the construction of Confucius Institutes in universities around the world; teachers, The teaching materials and operating funds were provided by Hanban, a subsidiary of the Chinese Ministry of Education, which cost tens of billions of yuan. During the heyday, 512 Confucius Institutes and 1,073 Confucius Classrooms were established in 140 countries (regions) around the world.
Even in recent years, Europe and America many countries began to find that Confucius Institutes "do not do goods ", the surface of cultural exchanges, but the essence of the United front for the Communist Party of China, or even interference with academic freedom, after the controversy escalated, countries have also shut down Confucius Institutes. About 40 of the more than 100 Confucius Institutes in the United States have been closed, while Sweden, which has recently made friends with China, has closed its last.
