Second volume of a memoir from a Confucius Institute director offers an insider’s account of the ordinary people behind an institution often portrayed in extraordinary terms.
I have some experience about why cities with a large elite school population would not be happy to have the peons learning Chinese and becoming less dependent on their intermediation. I can remember the unhappy looks of the other 9 scholarship recipients when I showed up at the reception for the new batch of 10 AASCU scholars at Taiwan's Foreign Affairs Department in 1983.
Lack of political sensitivity applies also to the author himself. In the eyes of many westerners, his account of the map not showing Taiwan as part of the PRC will look like damning evidence of censorship and political indoctrination.
I have some experience about why cities with a large elite school population would not be happy to have the peons learning Chinese and becoming less dependent on their intermediation. I can remember the unhappy looks of the other 9 scholarship recipients when I showed up at the reception for the new batch of 10 AASCU scholars at Taiwan's Foreign Affairs Department in 1983.
Lack of political sensitivity applies also to the author himself. In the eyes of many westerners, his account of the map not showing Taiwan as part of the PRC will look like damning evidence of censorship and political indoctrination.
You mean like the new UN map that the USA just voted against?