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Con Sul G Eneral Visits the University Confucius Institute. Newsletter June 2013 I Number 11 I Consul General visits the University visits General Consul Consul General Mr Pan Yundong visits the University of Sheffield On 15 April 2013, Consul in the Consulate’s catchment area after taking up his post in General Mr Pan Yundong Manchester, the University of Sheffield being the last and very from the Consulate of important stop of these seven Russell Group institutions. Mr Pan the People’s Republic was deeply impressed by the Vice-Chancellor’s fluency in Mandarin of China in Manchester and his keen interest in Chinese culture. He remarked that the visited the University University of Sheffield has a long history and beautiful surroundings, of Sheffield. He was world-class teaching and research and several Nobel-Prize winners accompanied by his among its alumnae. There are currently over 2000 Chinese students wife, Consul Zhu Yu, and scholars at the University of Sheffield, and Mr Pan thanked the as well as Consul Fu University for the care and help they are given while in Sheffield. Mr Hengsheng and Consul Pan also pointed out that Sheffield CI is among the first Confucius Wu Zhaosheng from the Institutes established in the UK and has already fostered many young Consulate’s Education The Vice-Chancellor meets Consul Pan and British students’ interest in Chinese language and culture, thereby Consul Zhu at Firth Court Section. making a great contribution towards promoting cultural exchange The University of Sheffield Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Keith and further friendly ties between the two cultures. He concluded by Burnett met Consul Pan together with the Pro-Vice Chancellor saying that the International Professor Rebecca Hughes. The Director of the Consulate will Sheffield Confucius Institute (SCI) Professor Zang Xiaowei, SCI give continuous Chinese Director from Nanjing University Professor Xiao Li and SCI support to the Deputy Director Dr Lucy Zhao also attended the meeting. The Vice- development of Chancellor extended a warm welcome to Mr Pan and his delegation, exchange and and thanked the Chinese Consulate in Manchester for its generous cooperation help and support towards the University’s work. He said that the between the University of Sheffield has now established long-term partnerships University with several world-renowned higher education institutions in China, of Sheffield and pointed out that an increasing number of Chinese students and and Chinese scholars are coming to study and work at the University, creating a universities. bridge that facilitates the development of friendly relations between After the Consul Pan’s delegation with University students China and the City of Sheffield as well as the University itself. This meeting Consul at the Confucius Institute (photo: courtesy of the has greatly contributed to taking forward the University’s level of Chinese Consulate in Manchester) Pan visited internationalisation. He stated that the Sheffield Confucius Institute the Sheffield is doing a very valuable contribution in promoting Chinese language Confucius Institute where he exchanged warm greetings with and culture with outstanding results, and has become an important the Institute’s management team, and met representatives of the platform for cooperation and exchange between the University of students and teaching staff of the Institute. Consul Pan encouraged Sheffield and Chinese universities. students to learn Chinese and become ambassadors for Sino-British Consul Pan thanked Professor Sir Keith Burnett for his kind cultural exchange. Consul Pan later also visited the University’s invitation. He said that he visited several well-known Universities Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN). Inside ..... Page 1: Consul General Mr Pan Yundong visits Page 4: Windows to China: Three Confucius the University of Sheffield Classrooms open in Sheffield Page 2: A Word from our Acting Director Page 5: Celebrating the Year of the Sssnake Page 2: Welcome to Sheffield Page 6: Learning to teach… even better Page 2: Success at Children’s University Awards Page 7: China in Photographs 2013 Page 3: News in Brief Page 8: Paddles up, Dragons! Newsletter 11 I June 2013 I Page 1 A word from our Acting Director Over the past six months, there have been many The celebration of Chinese events and achievements at SCI that we would festivals has also taken a new dimension at the SCI like to share with our readers in Newsletter this year. Following a very No. 11. successful Chinese New Year Gala in Sheffield City During his visit to the University of Sheffield in March, the Consul Hall in February, a team General for the People’s Republic of China Mr Pan Yundong from the SCI consisting came to the SCI office on Shearwood Road and expressed the of students from across Consulate’s praise and support for the SCI’s work. We were University departments delighted to welcome the delegation, and appreciated that with an interest in China Mr Pan also took time to meet some of our Chinese language have competed in a dragon students. boat race in Manchester. I would like to thank colleagues at the SCI for their work over This was the first time the the past months, and take this opportunity to extend a warm SCI actively celebrated the welcome at the SCI to Mr Zhao Gang and Miss Ma Kun from festival, and hopefully we can add the Dragon Boat Festival to our Beijing Language and Culture University, who have recently list of annual Chinese festival celebrations. joined us here in Sheffield. I am sure they will make an excellent More exciting news can be found on the pages of our Newsletter: contribution to our team. our students’ achievements at the 2013 UK finals of the Chinese The opening of three Confucius Classrooms this summer has Bridge contest, TCFL teacher training, this year’s China in marked an important milestone in the long-lasting cooperation Photograph Competition, information about upcoming Chinese between SCI and three schools in Sheffield: Firth Park language and culture courses, and much more. I hope you will Community Arts College, Eckington School and Birkdale School. enjoy the read. We have been providing Chinese language and culture tuition for Dr. Lucy Zhao all three schools since as early as 2008, and we are extremely Acting Director, Confucius Institute at the University of pleased to be able to further our links through this partnership. Sheffield Welcome to Success at Sheffield Children’s SCI welcomes to Sheffield Mr Zhao Gang and Miss Ma Kun University from Beijing Language and Culture University, who have Awards joined us in April and May this year respectively. On Thursday 2 May, 19 pupils from the SCI School for children and young learners collected their awards at the Sheffield Children’s University Awards Ceremony held at Sheffield Hallam University. The awards were given SCI pupils at the award ceremony in recognition of the number of hours the children spent learning Chinese at SCI. The Home Language Accreditation Project (HoLA), a city-wide Language Sheffield project, encourages children’s participation in a wide range of inspiring learning activities in complementary schools outside their A word from our Acting Director our Acting from A word regular school hours, and supports them to gain national accreditation in their mother tongue. “The HoLA project keeps record of our pupils’ Mandarin language learning hours, and awards certificates at Bronze (30h), Silver (60h) and Gold (over 100h) level – followed by graduate, postgraduate and PhD ‘degrees’ from the Children’s University,” explains Dr Hu Xinqun, our school Settling in: Mr Zhao and Miss Ma headmaster. “Hours are accumulated year by year, providing an exciting source of long-term at the Confucius Institute motivation for our students.” Newsletter 11 I June 2013 I Page 2 News in brief News Sheffield students shine Reaching out at Chinese Bridge 2013 Liam and Jasmin in London with Professor Wang Zhimin and Caterina Weber Congratulations to Jasmin Knowles and Liam Han for their wonderful performances at this year’s Chinese Bridge Competition held in London. The first year Chinese Studies students spent weeks The Lord Mayor of Sheffield visits the SCI stall preparing for the contest under the guidance of SCI’s Chinese Director Professor Xiao Li and Project Coordinator Caterina Weber. In addition to regular participation in annual University events such In her speech, Jasmin took a humorous look at common mistakes as the International Language Festival, the Give It a Go programme related to tones in Chinese, and Liam spoke about his plans to and the International Cultural Evening, the Confucius Institute explore China during his year abroad. Jasmin successfully entered has actively sought for new outreach opportunities. Our team the final round of the challenging contest and was awarded an attended the Showcase event during the University Court Meeting Outstanding Knowledge Prize. Liam just missed out on qualifying for and University Open Days, and delivered a sports-themed Chinese the finals, but his performance of a Mongolian dance was so popular language taster during the Thinking Social Science Sports Day. with the jury that he was asked for an encore before the prize-giving “The eye-catching Chinese decoration at our stall always makes ceremony at the British Museum. “The contestants’ level this year it attractive for visitors. Outreach events allow us to spread the was incredibly high. I am very proud of our students, who have only word about SCI courses and events, and also give our team many been learning Chinese since September,” said SCI’s Chinese Director interesting opportunities to meet and network with students, Professor Wang Zhimin, who was invited to be one of the judges at professionals and often high profile guests,” says SCI’s Chinese the contest. “They gave their very best – with great success!” Director, Professor Xiao Li.
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