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Confucius Institutes’ Engagement with Western Audiences

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Confucius Institutes (CIs), which exist as partnerships between Chinese educational institutions (or organizations) and a foreign counterpart, have been established worldwide as a means of promoting China’s official national language and culture abroad. Since their inception in 2004, CIs have proliferated with now over 400 globally and a further 600 plus Confucius Classrooms, which are similar but smaller in scale.

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Schulte, H. (2016). Reorientalism/Reorientality/Re-Orientality. In: Guo, S., Guo, Y. (eds) Spotlight on China. Spotlight on China. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-669-9_5

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