Since 2006, The Confucius Institute @ China Institute (CI@CI) in partnership with the prestigious East China Normal University (ECNU) has been leading the professional development in teaching Chinese as a second language in the U.S. This spring, three renowned professors from ECNU will visit CI@CI in New York for the first time, to present this symposium, Scholars’ Perspective: Teaching Chinese as a Foreign/Second Language. All three professors are leading scholars in their respective fields and will be discussing various topics such as, theories and principles of Chinese phonetics and phonology, understanding Chinese characters from multiple perspectives, and contextualizing the use of Chinese languages. Symposium will be given in Mandarin Chinese.

BEIJING, April 27, 2009 – China Institute, the New York City based cultural and educational nonprofit institution focused exclusively on China, opened the 5th Annual China Institute Executive Summit in Beijing, China this morning.

“We are extremely pleased to host our first invitation-only Executive Summit in China. The Summit brings together a select group of business executives from China and the United States for a forum of open and constructive dialogue (more…)