{"id":544,"date":"2024-10-01T13:11:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T17:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/?p=544"},"modified":"2024-10-01T13:17:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T17:17:43","slug":"dr-shuhua-fan-professor-of-history-has-published-an-article-titled-confucius-institutes-in-the-xi-jinping-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/2024\/10\/01\/dr-shuhua-fan-professor-of-history-has-published-an-article-titled-confucius-institutes-in-the-xi-jinping-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Shuhua Fan, Professor of History, has published an article titled \u201cConfucius Institutes in the Xi Jinping Era&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Shuhua Fan, Professor of History, has published an article titled \u201cConfucius Institutes in the Xi Jinping Era: From Peak to Demise in the United States,\u201d in Xiaobing Li and Qiang Fang, eds., China Under Xi Jinping: A New Assessment (Leiden University Press, 2024), pp. 165-200.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"4kLYKZgApF\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harvard-yenching.org\/research\/confucius-institutes-in-the-xi-jinping-era-from-peak-to-decline-in-the-united-states\/\">Confucius Institutes in the Xi Jinping Era: From Peak to Decline in the United States<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Confucius Institutes in the Xi Jinping Era: From Peak to Decline in the United States&#8221; &#8212; Harvard-Yenching Institute\" src=\"https:\/\/www.harvard-yenching.org\/research\/confucius-institutes-in-the-xi-jinping-era-from-peak-to-decline-in-the-united-states\/embed\/#?secret=n3pS2PMTVM#?secret=4kLYKZgApF\" data-secret=\"4kLYKZgApF\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Abstract: This article examines the Confucius Institutes (CI) in the Xi Jinping era, focusing on its expansion and demise in the United States. In 2004, the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC) established its first CI to export Chinese language and culture overseas. Under Xi, CIs expanded significantly across the globe, with about 118 CIs in the US. However, when China became more assertive and combative in both domestic and foreign policies and when U.S.-China relations deteriorated, U.S. leaders urged the closure of the CIs. As of May 2023, there were a handful of CIs still in operation.<\/p>\n<p>Why did the Chinese government initiate the CIs? What caused the stunning CI expansion during the early Xi era? Why did mounting hostility to CIs rise in Western nations and especially in the U.S. from the mid-2010s? Why and how did the mass closure of CIs take place in the U.S. in the past few years?<\/p>\n<p>This article argues that CIs are a part of China\u2019s cultural diplomacy to expand its cultural\/educational influence and promote its international image overseas, thus serving the country\u2019s national interest. China\u2019s vigorous campaigns to project its soft power abroad via CIs and the U.S.\u2019 soaring resistance are both driven by national interests. The mass closure of CIs in the U.S. is a result of the confrontation of the two countries\u2019 national interests.<\/p>\n<p>Key Words: Confucius Institutes, cultural diplomacy, Chinese cultural nationalism, U.S.-China relations, language and culture, CI demise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Shuhua Fan, Professor of History, has published an article titled \u201cConfucius Institutes in the Xi Jinping Era: From Peak to Demise in the United States,\u201d in Xiaobing Li and Qiang Fang, eds., China Under Xi Jinping: A New Assessment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/2024\/10\/01\/dr-shuhua-fan-professor-of-history-has-published-an-article-titled-confucius-institutes-in-the-xi-jinping-era\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}