Stanford University’s Confucius
Institute – Its Birth,
The Arrangement- The Present- The
Future
May 20, 2012
6:15 – Potluck Dinner - Optional
7:30 – 9 PM – Speakers Prof. Sun and Prof.
Wang – Free
at
Sunny View Senior Community, Community
Center Room
22445 Cupertino Rd, Cupertino, CA 95014
(one block north of Stevens
Creek Blvd., on Foothill Expressway)
Respond to Dana Eaton dana@eatonstudios.com
by May 16, 2012
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Sun,
Chao Fen (Suen Chiu Fun), originally from Hong Kong,
received his undergraduate education at East China Normal University in
Shanghai, MA from University of Oregon, and Ph.D in Linguistics from Cornell
University. Since 1991, he has been teaching at Stanford University as
assistant professor, associate professor and professor and chaired the
department of East Asian Languages and Cultures for six years and served as
director of Stanford Center for East Asian Studies. He is currently serving a
three-year term of Yangtze Scholar 长江学者 at
Beijing Language and Culture University, appointed by the Ministry of
Education, PRC. Prof. Sun as
Director of Stanford’s Dept. of East Asian Language and Culture was
instrumental in bringing the Confucius Institute to Stanford, 2009.
www.stanford.edu/dept/asianlang/cgi-bin/people/bios/sun_chaofen.php
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Wang, Ban is the William Haas Professor in
Chinese Studies at Stanford University and the Yangtze River Chair Professor
at East China Normal University. He is currently chairperson of the
Departments of Asian Languages and Cultures. He was a research fellow
with the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2000 and the Institute for
Advanced Study at Princeton in 2007. He has taught at Beijing Foreign Studies
University, SUNY-Stony Brook, Harvard University, Rutgers University, Seoul
National University, and E. China Normal University. Prof. Wang recently
edited the book, Words and Their Stories: Essays
on the Language of the Chinese Revolution.
www.stanford.edu/dept/DLCL/cgi-bin/web/people/ban-wang
Confucius Institute at Stanford University focuses on research and teaching Chinese language and culture. Chinese has become the second most popular foreign language at Stanford University. This is evidence of a growing interest among students in Chinese language and culture. To encourage research on the graduate level, each year the Institute will award a fellowship to one to three graduate students currently enrolled in their Chinese program.
The Confucius Institute at Stanford University is a partnership between Stanford, Peking University, one of China’s top research universities, and Hanban, an administrative arm of the Ministry of Education in China.
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