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Korea Herald
03-06-2025
- Business
- Korea Herald
How is vocational education today forging the craftspeople of tomorrow?
BEIJING, June 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Finding Answers in China from As China's economic structure continues to upgrade, the demand for new-type skilled workers is growing rapidly. Vocational education is gaining increasing social recognition. How is vocational education developing in China? Can it meet the needs of the times and cultivate high-caliber technical professionals? In this episode, Sinologist Elsbeth van Paridon, also an editor at CICG Americas, travels to Jiangsu — one of China's economic powerhouse provinces — to find the answers.
Arab News
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Arab News
What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Making of Barbarians' by Haun Saussy
Debates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature often take Eurocentrism as the target of their critique. But literature is a universe with many centers, and one of them is China. The Making of Barbarians offers an account of world literature in which China, as center, produces its own margins. Here Sinologist and comparatist Haun Saussy investigates the meanings of literary translation, adaptation, and appropriation on the boundaries of China long before it came into sustained contact with the West. When scholars talk about comparative literature in Asia, they tend to focus on translation between European languages and Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, as practiced since about 1900. In contrast, Saussy focuses on the period before 1850, when the translation of foreign works into Chinese was rare because Chinese literary tradition overshadowed those around it. 'The Making of Barbarians' looks closely at literary works that were translated into Chinese from foreign languages or resulted from contact with alien peoples.
