Press Play with Madeleine Brand
The Debate Over Confucius Institutes
China is funding the study of Chinese language, history and literature at 90 American universities. These centers are called Confucius Institutes and several California schools have them, including UCLA and Stanford.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readChina is funding the study of Chinese language, history and literature at 90 American universities. These centers are called Confucius Institutes and several California schools have them, including UCLA and Stanford. But a recent hearing in Congress has raised questions about whether these institutes are having a bad influence on students and limiting academic freedom. We examine the controversy.
Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Andrew Walsh
Too Beautiful to Live
Christian Bordal
Managing Producer, Greater LA
Matt Holzman
Producer, 'The Document'
Perry Link
Former professor of Chinese language and literature at Princeton. He now teaches at U.C. Riverside
Randy Kluver
Executive director of Global Partnerships at Texas A&M.