Are Chinese language centres in Canada culture clubs or spy outposts?

[Francis Hult]

National Post

 

Are Chinese language centres in Canada culture clubs or spy outposts?


Before McMaster University art history professor Angela Sheng leads a journalist on a tour of the year-old school of Chinese language and culture within the Hamilton, Ont., university, she invites him to sit for a cup of Kuan Yin tea, a Fujian Province specialty. After the tour, she suggests, they should catch lunch at one of her favourite local Chinese restaurants; in the meantime, would he like a Chinese calendar, or a VIP pass to the Institute's spring gala? Between her chummy demeanour and the shock of fuschia through her hair, the director of the Confucius Institute at McMaster is more outgoing (and probably hipper) than the visiting-from-China faculty who work for her, but all are unfailingly polite and gracious.


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http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/Chinese+language+centres+Canada+culture+clubs+outposts/3258936/story.html

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