2013 - The University of Texas at Dallas

The Confucius Institute at The University of Texas at Dallas, the first Confucius Institute in Texas, was launched on November 5, 2007. Its goal is to increase mutual understanding and cooperation between the people of China and the United States by promoting the study of China’s language, history and culture. As an integral part of the University’s mission to become one of the world’s great universities and one of the best public universities in the U.S., the Institute serves as a window to Chinese culture, a gateway to Chinese society, a bridge between Texas and China, a hub for cultural, intellectual, business and economic exchanges, and above all, a regional center for Chinese studies in north Texas. After five years of growth, the Confucius Institute at UT Dallas has distinguished itself from its sister institutes all over the world by focusing on not only teaching Chinese language, literature, history, culture and intellectual thought but also conducting scholarly research in these areas. With support from UT Dallas, the Confucius Institute Headquarters and the partner school, Southeast University in China, the Confucius Institute has developed a series of programs, such as • Chinese Language/Culture Courses • Chinese Proficiency Tests: HSK, YCT, BCT • Confucius Classroom • Chinese Language Teacher Training • Chinese Bridge: Chinese proficiency competitions and summer camp for American high school students • Confucius Salon • Chinese Culture Week The Confucius Institute also has a library that holds a collection of over 1000 volumes of books, dictionaries, audio/videos, references and other materials on Chinese teaching and learning. No matter whether you work or study at UT Dallas, or are members of the surrounding communities, The Confucius Institute is an accessible resource for you to learn and study Chinese language, history and culture, or to do research in these areas. Confucius Institute at UT Dallas 800 W. Campbell Rd., JO31 Richardson, TX 75080 For more information about the events or the Confucius Institute, call 972-883-4860, email [email protected], or visit their website:

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Featured Events Jonathan Stalling – Two Dreams of China: Ezra Pound vs. Ernest Fenollosa September 11, Jonsson Performance Hall, 7:30 p.m., free

For nearly a century, American poets have tucked a single slim book into their backpack while hiking landscapes in search of poetic inspiration. That book is Ernest Fenollosa’s Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry. Edited and first published by Ezra Pound in 1920, the book has gone on to become a mainstay for poets and poetry lovers, and one of the most heavily criticized texts for Sinologists, linguists, and later literary and cultural critics. It has also aroused a great deal of controversy. What has remained largely unexplored, however, is the tension between Fenollosa’s and Pound’s vision of the Chinese language and culture. Prof. Stalling will draw out “two dreams of China” in their visions and reveal an estuary of Buddhist, Daoist, and cosmological formalist influences seeping into the American poetic unconscious. Dr. Stalling is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Oklahoma specializing in American and East-West Poetry and Poetics. He is the co-founder and an editor of Chinese Literature Today magazine, and the editor of the Chinese Literature Book Series of the University of Oklahoma Press. He is the author of Poetics of Emptiness (Fordham U. Press, 2010), Grotto Heaven (Chax Press, 2010), and Yingelishi: Sinophonic English Poetry and Poetics (Counterpath Press, 2011). He is also the translator of Winter Sun: Poetry of Shi Zhi (Oklahoma, 2012), and a co-editor of The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry, A Critical Edition (Fordham, 2008).

Courses, Training and Tests Non-credit Chinese Language Courses Weekday evenings or Saturdays, Jonsson Building, (room to be determined) Chinese I, II & III, Conversational Chinese, Business Chinese. Open to register year-round. Contact: [email protected]

Teacher Training October 5, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., Jonsson Performance Hall Workshop to learn how to motivate students with” learning by discovery”, how to use standard tests like HSK to motivate learning, and how to use authentic online materials in your classroom. December 7, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m., Jonsson Building, room 4.614 Hosted by master Chinese teachers, this workshop teaches practical skills on how to manage a language classroom. Contact: [email protected]

Chinese Proficiency Tests: HSK, YCT, BCT

Standard tests to assess the Chinese language proficiency of non-native speakers engaged in social or business activities. HSK: October 19, November 30 YCT: November 16 BCT: November 16 Jonsson Building, (room to be determined) Contact: [email protected]

Dr. Howard Goldblatt

traditional Chinese medicine and demonstrate its healing power through on-the-spot diagnosis and treatment. He will also adjust the audience’s human biomagnetic field and give instructions on how to do body-nurturing and prevent diseases.

Acknowledged as the world’s foremost translator of Chinese literature into English, Dr. Howard Goldblatt’s translations played a major role in the awarding of the 2012 Nobel Prize in literature to Mo Yan. Goldblatt translated three of the first four novels that were awarded the prestigious Man Asian Literary Prize. The translation by Goldblatt and his wife, Sylvia Li-Chun, of the novel Notes of a Desolate Man received the 1999 American Literary Translators Association Award as the finest work of translation into English from any language.

Grandmaster Fu Wei-Zhong came from a family of traditional Chinese medicine for several generations and is widely regarded as China's "Medical Buddha." Chosen by the departed Holiness Grandmaster Ju Zan, Executive President of Chinese Association of Buddhism, Master Fu is the 13th “Robe-and-Bowl” lineage holder of Chinese Omei Linji School of Health, Healing, and Enlightenment. He has authored several books on Chinese metaphysics, medicine, qi-gong, body-nurturing and healing.

September 18, Jonsson Performance Hall, 7:30 p.m., free

Fu Wei Zhong – Traditional Chinese Medicine: Rationale and Practice Lecture – Nov. 20, Jonsson Performance Hall, 7:30 p.m., free Workshop – Nov. 21, Jonsson Performance Hall, 7:30 p.m., free His Eminence Grandmaster Fu Wei-Zhong will give a lecture and demonstration on a traditional medical system which has been healing people for three thousand years. He will present the basic rationale of

Chinese Culture Week November 18-22, various venues on the UT Dallas campus A series of cultural, social and educational activities including lecture, workshop, performance and movie, highlighted with a special workshop on Chinese medicine, health, healing and enlightenment.

Confucius Salon First Saturday of every month, Jonsson Building, room 4.102 A free, informal forum on Chinese history and culture. Contact: [email protected]