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Kentucky’s Withers named dean of CSU’s College of Liberal Arts (Colorado State University)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Apr 2016
(Source. Colorado State University) ... Benjamin Withers ... I hope to continue that leadership going forward.' ... In the areas of diversity and inclusion, as department chair he worked with UK's Office of Equity to revise faculty hiring processes, used cluster hires to boost multicultural diversity and supported the establishment of a Confucius Institute, where he helped establish a student exchange program with Shanghai University ... (noodl....

UK Family Invited to Enter Designs for Confucius Institute's Snapchat Filter Competition (University of Kentucky)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Apr 2016
(April 13, 2016)- The University of Kentucky Confucius Institute (UKCI)is now accepting submissions from UK students, faculty or staff for its Snapchat Filter Competition! ... Design must be relevant to the UK Confucius Institute brand ... Individuals submitting designs to the UK Confucius Institute are authorizing UKCI and the University of Kentucky to make unlimited, unrestricted use of their design for promotional purposes....

University of Nebraska Board of Regents to make campus visit to UNL (University of Nebraska Administration)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Apr 2016
(Source. University of Nebraska Administration). University of Nebraska Board of Regents to make campus visit to UNL 04/13/2016. The University of Nebraska Board of Regents will make a campus visit to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Thursday, April 14, 2016 ... The full itinerary for Thursday's campus visit is as follows. 9.15 a.m.. First-Year Experience & Transition Programs. Presenter ... Charles Wood, director of the Confucius Institute....

Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand visits Peking Un... [2016-04-13] (PKU - Peking University)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Apr 2016
(Source ... 3and both sides had cordial and friendly talks about the future development of PKU ... Since 2001, Princess Sirindhorn has visited PKU almost every year. Besides, the princess took up the post of Honorary Chair of the Science and Technology Cultural Exchange Center of PKU in 2005 and attended the opening ceremony of the Confucius Institute founded by PKU at Chulalongkorn University, her alma mater, in 2007 ... Original Document....

China-Ghana relations - stepping into a new era of win-win cooperation

Edit Graphic 13 Apr 2016
This visit, which is the first one of a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee to Ghana in the past nine years, and the third leg of Chairman Yu’s three-nation African tour, will write a new chapter in China-Ghana friendship ... China-Ghana cooperation ... The Confucius Institute in the University of Ghana has become a window of China-Ghana cultural exchanges ... ....

CCTV to air series on Confucius Institute

Edit China Daily 12 Apr 2016
A documentary series about how the Confucius Institute accelerated exchanges between China and other countries over the past decade will have its premiere on Thursday on China ......

Students participate in Fifteenth Chinese Bridge Preliminary Competition

Edit Modern Ghana 11 Apr 2016
Meilian Mei, Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Ghana, said promoting the study of Chinese language in Ghana bridged the gap between the two countries, and helped position the two sides better for fruitful collaboration ... The competition was sponsored by the Confucius Institute Headquarters in Hanban and co-hosted by the Chinese Embassy in Ghana and the Confucius Institute at the University of Ghana....

A Revolutionary Discovery in China

Edit The New York Review of Books 10 Apr 2016
Chinese political thought as exemplified by Confucius allowed for meritocracy among officials, eventually leading to the famous examination system on which China’s imperial bureaucracy was founded ... The texts also show a world in which magic and divination, even in the supposedly secular world of Confucius, played a much larger part than has been realized....

Restoration set to start on Confucius complex

Edit China Daily 09 Apr 2016
Work has begun on a 320 million yuan ($50 million), five-year project to repair colorful paintings on the ancient buildings that comprise the Confucius temple, mansion and cemetery in East China's Shandong province, a cultural heritage official said on Friday ... Established in 478 BC, several emperors subsequently renovated and enlarged the Confucius Temple in Qufu over the years....

Forget mindfulness, stop trying to find yourself and start faking it

Edit The Guardian 09 Apr 2016
Why is the history of Chinese philosophy now the most popular course at Harvard? Top tips on how to become a better person according to Confucius and co. People are often surprised to learn that Confucius, Mencius, Laozi and other classical Chinese philosophers weren’t rigid traditionalists who taught that our highest good comes from confining ourselves to social roles ... Confucius's birthday reminds us why he still matters....

Soul qualities: ‘Light, peace, and beauty’

Edit The Examiner 09 Apr 2016
Authentic happiness is often referred to as living with flexible optimism. Through the application of the new positive psychology, there is potential to achieve lasting fulfillment ... “Use your signature strengths and virtues in the service of something much larger than you are.” Seligman’s vision of happiness combines the virtue ethics of Confucius, Mencius and Aristotle, with modern psychological theories of motivation....

Thai Crown Princess Sirindhorn visits Confucius Institute in Bishkek

Edit Topix 08 Apr 2016
BISHKEK, April 7, 2016 -- Thai Crown Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn visits the Confucius Institute in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on April 7, 2016. Thai crown princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn visited on April 7 the Confucius Institute of Kyrgyz National University during her first visit to Kyrgyzstan ... ....

Confucius Institute of University College Dublin Holds Council Meeting at RUC (Renmin University of China)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Apr 2016
On March 22, the Confucius Institute of University College Dublin (UCD), which was jointly established by the Office of Chinese Language Council International (Hanban), Renmin University, and UCD in 2006, held its annual council meeting in Beijing for the ninth time ... Others in attendance included Chinese Director of UCD's Confucius Institute, CAI Yongqiang, and Associate Director of RUC's International Office, Professor Lü Jie....
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