Confucius Institute China Week Co-founded by Jinan and Rhodes Topped Off(43082)

Since its inception in 2008, Confucius Institute co-founded by Jinan University of China and Rhodes University of South Africa organizes a China week every year which has become a new tradition of cultural activities at the school. The China Week this year held from September 27 to October 1 by the exhibition of Chinese books and stationery, Chinese history and culture tour photography exhibitions and community achievements of Chinese culture integrated into the exhibition, special academic lectures, Chinese poem translation contest, and poem reciting performance, Jinan University Students Art Troupe and a series of activities, art performances, widely displayed of Chinese culture, language and social development, and many other features of the results and basic information about the construction of the discipline of Chinese Studies at Rhodes University, and in the mean time once again in the distant South Africa held a wonderful birthday party celebrating the Chinese National Day.

During the China Week, some professors and experts from Jinan University of China and other countries and regions delivered a series of wonderful lectures to Rhodes University. The wonderful speeches made by several young teachers from Jinan University won plaudits from the audience. The speakers included Dr. Qin Jiajia, who for the first at Rhodes introduced to the audience Chinese medical culture, and demonstrated cupping, acupuncture and other traditional Chinese medicine care and treatment at the packed auditorium; Dr. Li Jing described the development of Chinese non-governmental organizations and the important role they play in philanthropy; Dr. Yang Hongbo showed a number of images and data to introduce Chinese Muslims religious and social life, and the protection of ethnic and religious policies in China, which dispelled the doubts in some of the audience s mind that if there are religious repression in China.

The evening of October 1, in the famous Guy Butler Memorial Theatre of the city of Grahamstown, Jinan University Students Art Troupe s wonderful performances was capped off with the Chinese singing of the theme song for 2010 World Cup in South Africa and the audience s blessing the 61^st anniversary of the Chinese National Day, and provided a fitting finale to the one-week China Week at Rhodes.

Proposed by Professor Marius Vermaak, Dean of the Confucius Institute at Rhodes University, well-known South African poet Robert Berold organized and presided over the Chinese poetry translation contest and the results were announced during the China Week. The event attracted students majoring in different languages at Language Institute of Rhodes University to actively participate, and the English verbatim of Du Fu s poem "Zeng Wei Ba Chu Shi" were translated into English, German, French, Afrikaans, Latin, and Xhosa. The participants expressed challenges and feelings they had in the translation contest . China Week also included reading briefing of poetry translation , and the translation work has been collected and published.

Dr. Peter Clayton, Director of Confucius Institute at Rhodes University, and Vice President of Rhodes University, was very excited in his speech after the performance, and praised the amazing show of Jinan University Student Art Troupe, which he said added color to the China Week, and made it the most solemn and successful Chinese cultural activity at Rhodes. On behalf of Rhodes and the South African audience, he also expressed heartfelt congratulations to the 61^st anniversary of the founding of PRC.

Confucius Institute China Week Co-founded by Jinan and Rhodes Topped Off

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