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My Chinese Generation Is Losing the Ability to Express Itself

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One morning last November, I woke up to a stirring sight: video clips of young protesters in several Chinese cities singing, shouting and chanting for an end to the oppressive “zero Covid” policy that China had adhered to during the pandemic. I’m 31. Never in my life had I seen my fellow Chinese citizens stand up to the government on such a scale and with such determination.

I marveled at their courage, but a sense of disquiet crept in: The protests made clear just how thoroughly censorship, propaganda and the government’s iron grip on all discourse had stunted a generation’s ability to express itself.…  Seguir leyendo »

Students from a Confucius Institute in the US visiting the Confucius Temple in Qufu, China, April 17, 2013. Imaginechina via AP Images

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Since their beginning in 2005, Confucius Institutes have been set up to teach Chinese language classes in more than one hundred American colleges and universities, including large and substantial institutions like Rutgers University, the State Universities of New York at Binghamton and Albany, Purdue, Emory, Texas A & M, Stanford, and others. In addition, there are now about five hundred sister programs, known as “Confucius Classrooms,” teaching Chinese in primary and secondary schools from Texas to Massachusetts.

But while the rapid spread of these institutes has been impressive, in recent years their unusual reach in the American higher education system has become increasingly controversial: Confucius Institutes are an official agency of the Chinese government, which provides a major share, sometimes virtually all, of the funds needed to run them.…  Seguir leyendo »

China’s Digital Soft Power Play

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Looking at Chinese script, you might empathize with the words of an 18th-century Jesuit missionary: “One can only endure the pain of learning it for the love of God.” The piety may be gone, but the Chinese have heard this kind of complaint for over four centuries and are finally doing something about it.

This month, the Chinese government plans to introduce codes for some 3,000 Chinese characters as part of a grand project, known as the China Font Bank, to digitize 500,000 characters previously unavailable in electronic form. Until now, only 80,388 characters have been encoded in the international computing standard, Unicode.…  Seguir leyendo »

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Si el chino será o no la primera lengua mundial en el futuro es un interrogante que se asocia a la repercusión que puede ejercer cualquier cambio en la geografía lingüística actual y corresponde a un conjunto de variables dinámicas incontrolables. El análisis lingüístico que aborda tanto el espacio poblacional de una lengua como los factores determinantes de la circulación actual de las lenguas más habladas del planeta se vincula no sólo al número de hablantes de una lengua sino también a su mercado potencial y su expansión; este último factor es crucial, porque la movilidad de una lengua es la que garantiza a corto y largo plazo su poder en el mundo.…  Seguir leyendo »