Hanban
Hanban ( Chinese 漢 辦 / 汉 办 , Pinyin Hànbàn - "Chinese office") is the commonly used short name for a foreign cultural organization in the People's Republic of China. In the state apparatus, Hanban is assigned to the Ministry of Education.
Organization and mandate
Twelve state ministries and authorities are represented on the management council of Hanban, in particular the State Council Information Office SCIO (the state counterpart to the Communist Party's propaganda department) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, usually with those responsible for foreign propaganda. The chairman of this supreme hanban body is Liu Yandong. The deputy general manager of Hanban is Ma Jianfei.
The tasks are:
- worldwide spread of Chinese "soft power", especially as a counterweight to US pop culture
- Improvement of the predominantly negative image of the People's Republic in North America, Europe and China's neighboring Asian countries
- Promotion and dissemination of the Chinese culture and language, i.e. the simplified characters of the People's Republic (in contrast to the traditional script from pre-communist times, which is still used today in Taiwan, Hong Kong and by Chinese overseas).
Specifically, Hanban is primarily the headquarters of the more than 470 Confucius Institutes and 850 Confucius classrooms worldwide , which are organized as joint ventures with foreign educational institutions, mostly universities, and are co-financed by foreign taxpayers. These institutions are not to be confused with the around 20 Chinese cultural institutes (Chinese Culture Centers Abroad) around the world, which are financed solely by the People's Republic and are subordinate to the Ministry of Culture. Hanban is responsible for providing services and materials for the acquisition of Chinese language and culture skills and for compliance with the laws and regulations of the People's Republic, that is, "Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thoughts and Deng Xiaoping Theories "to monitor. The selection of personnel, the annual program plans and the events of the Confucius Institutes must be approved by Hanban.
Surname
The name Hànbàn is the short form of ( Chinese 國家 漢語 國際 推廣 領導 小組 辦公室 / 国家 汉语 国际 推广 领导 小组 办公室 , Pinyin Guójiā Hànyǔ Guójì Tuīguǎng Lǐngdǎo Xiǎozǔ Bàngōngshì - "State leadership group office for the international dissemination of the Chinese language").
literature
- Falk Hartig: Chinese Public Diplomacy. The rise of the Confucius Institute, Routledge 2016
- Marshall Sahlins: Confucius Institutes. Academic Malware, Prickly Paradigm Press, 2015
- Anne-Marie Brady: China's Thought Management, Routledge 2012
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information page of the Hanban. Retrieved October 10, 2014 .