China Institute
China Institute builds bridges
"The institute is now recognized all across the world," said Dr. Wenran Jiang, Acting Director of the Institute. "Our institute is on the map." As well as providing public policy analysis and advice, the China centre will be the epicenter of the U of A's China projects. Among those projects is an educational program for university vice presidents from China - 22 of them are on campus now and attended the China Institute launch. Another is a School of Business program that helps train some of the Chinese government's most senior bureaucrats.
Original: ExpressNews
U of A Museums receive $37 million in rare Asian artefacts
Edmonton philanthropists, Sandy and Cécile Mactaggart, have donated more than 700 pieces of ancient and modern Asian art and textiles to the University of Alberta This donation, one of the largest in university museum history, will form the foundation on which the new Chinese studies centre will be built.
Original: ExpressNews
The China Institute at the University of Alberta (CIUA) was established in the fall of 2005. The Government of Alberta gave an endowment of $37 million to the Institute to match the appraised value of the Mactaggart Art Collection which was donated to the University of Alberta Museums by Sandy and Cécile Mactaggart.
The China Institute aims to promote China-related initiatives and scholarship at the University of Alberta and to support new teaching and research activities between Canada and China. The China Institute also hopes to develop a strong friendship with China and to promote cultural, scientific, and business exchanges.
The CIUA will be the umbrella organization for all China-related activities at the University of Alberta. It will support China-related teaching and research work at the University of Alberta, involving undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, staff, and faculty. The China Institute's vision is to become recognized as a unique Canadian enterprise that stimulates outstanding China-related teaching and research initiatives and interdisciplinary collaboration. The work being done at the Institute will involve scholars from all disciplines and the Institute will forge links between the University and the broader community in order to encourage cultural understanding and scientific and business ventures between the two nations.
The Institute is governed by a Board of Governors, which reports to the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) of the University of Alberta.
The programs offered by the China Institute include:
- The joint-lab research project with China's Ministry of Science and Technology
- The annual Canadian-China energy forum
- Student exchange programs
- Cross-cultural leadership development programs
- Research on Chinese politics, economy, society, and culture
- Research on Canadian-China relations
- Language instruction programs
The China Institute also provides information to people at the University regarding external opportunities such as internship openings in the Embassy of Canada in Beijing or the China-Canada Scholars' Exchange Programme.
The events organized by the China Institute include the 3rd Canada-China Economic Cooperation Conference and numerous lectures on topics such as the study of Chinese literature and China's macro-economic management and fiscal policy.
Staff at the China Institute also collect China-related energy news, analyses, and documents from international media sources on a daily basis. This information is then compiled into an archives of energy news.
To read more about the China Institute at the University of Alberta, please visit its website.