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Pacific imaginaries

13 Mar 2012

Johnson noted the great strides that had been made in Canada with respect to the teaching of Chinese language and with regard to the expansion of Chinese studies programs in a range of academic disciplines. [...] Maintaining and cultivating ties with colleagues working in these settings is of primary importance In Canada, of course, it is extremely difficult to obtain for many of us and to the students we are training.38 a federal commitment to building Chinese studies The question is how to establish stronger linkages because most of the money is distributed at the with our own programming here in Canada [...] In the United States, C-POL, a listserve concerned with the development of Chinese studies, run out of the University of California Los Angeles by we also need to increase interaction between scholars Richard Baum, serves as an indispensible resource of China and the disciplines in which many of us have for China scholars, journalists, and commentators. [...] A number of reasons have The United States is also home to Asia Network, a been given as to why it is that the study of Chinese consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges to Promote Asian Politics, for example, is rarely integrated into the Studies.44 ChinaNet, a website recently established to canon of comparative politics.48 It is clear that the provide information to China scholars in the Ottawa statu [...] Indeed, the decision to hold a workshop on the study of Chinese Politics in One of the untapped resources with respect to the Canada at the Canadian Political Science Association development of Chinese studies in Canada is the not meetings in 2011 was made in the hopes of spurring insignificant number of scholars who have the capacity greater disciplinary discussion.
china higher education education politics school science and technology canada culture history international relations social sciences students university think tank further education academia international development research centre graduate school interdisciplinarity interdisciplinary think-tank fen osler hampson

Authors

Manning, Kimberley P. E

Pages
17
Published in
Canada

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