The winners of the 5th Cross-Language Recitation Contest of Confucian Classics have been officially announced. Four entries submitted by Qingdao Binhai University have won multiple honors, including two national first prizes and two provincial third prizes, as well as the Outstanding Instructor Award, marking the university’s best performance since it first took part in the contest.

Cheon Gaeju, an international student from the Republic of Korea, claimed the national first prize in the adult international student category with his work Friends Come from Afar: A Korean Student’s Dream of Becoming a Chinese Teacher. Chen Xiangming, a faculty member, won the national first prize in the domestic adult category for his essay From “Hear and Act at Once” to “Teach Each in Their Own Way”: A Chinese Teacher of International Students’ Reflections on Confucianism. Yuehua, an international student from Russia, and Truong Thi Hai Ha from Vietnam received provincial third prizes and the Online Popularity Award respectively.

Hosted jointly by the Nishan World Confucianism Center, China Confucius Foundation, Shandong Provincial Department of Education, Shandong People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, and the Administrative Committee of the China-SCO Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Zone, this contest is one of the most authoritative and globally influential brand events for the multilingual international communication of Confucian classics. Over 31,000 submissions were collected from more than 60 countries and regions, contributed by over 60,000 enthusiasts of Chinese culture.

(Source: School of International Education | Editor: Yi Xuelian)