Yale-China Chinese Language Centre
 Fong Shu Chuen Building | |
| Established | 1961 |
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| Focus | Cantonese & Mandarin language instruction |
| Head | Professor Hang Fung Carole HOYAN Director |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
| Formerly called | New Asia - Yale-in-China Chinese Language Centre 新雅中國語文研習所 |
| Address | Fong Shu Chuen Building, |
| Location | , Hong Kong |
| Website | Official website |
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| Traditional Chinese | 雅禮中國語文研習所 | ||||||||
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Yale-China Chinese Language Centre (CLC), formerly the New Asia - Yale-in-China Chinese Language Centre, is a Cantonese and Mandarin language study centre at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The school offers small-class instruction programmes for students with various objectives. These include Cantonese and Mandarin for foreigners, Mandarin for Hong Kong people, and Cantonese for Mainland Chinese students and migrants to Hong Kong.[1]
The school is headquartered at the CUHK campus in Sha Tin, New Territories, and had additional classrooms in Jordan, Kowloon from July 2017 until May 2020.
History
[edit]The CLC was established by Jennie Mak Ling in 1961 to teach Cantonese to foreigners.[1] Ling studied at Diocesan Girls' School and Yale Divinity School. After returning to Hong Kong, she began teaching Chinese in her family home.[2]
In 1963 the school received support from New Asia College and the Yale-China Association and was renamed New Asia–Yale-in-China Chinese Language Centre.[1] It moved to New Asia in the spring of 1963[2] and was formally incorporated into the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1974. The Yale-China Association (then called Yale-in-China) formed a partnership with New Asia College in Hong Kong in the early 1950s, after the victory of the communist revolution.[3]
A new headquarters for the school, located at the CUHK campus across the street from University station, was built at a cost of $1.5 million with the support of the Fong Shu Fook Tong Foundation. The so-named Fong Shu Chuen Building was opened on 24 January 1980 by Chief Secretary Jack Cater.[4] This building remains the headquarters of the school.
In 1998, the centre launched a Cantonese-language programme for Mainland Chinese students.[1]
Notable alumni
[edit]- Lindzay Chan, dancer[1]
- Gregory Charles Rivers, actor[1]
- Sujan R. Chinoy, Indian diplomat[1]
- Arthur Li, member of the Executive Council[1]
- Christine Loh, undersecretary for the environment[1]
- Kevin Rudd, former prime minister of Australia[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Introduction". Yale-China Chinese Language Centre. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ a b Kaplan, Fredric (20 September 1964). "The lady who started a Chinese language centre". South China Morning Post. p. 4.
- ^ "Yale-China History". Yale-China Association. 2012. Archived from the original on 18 December 2013.
- ^ "Language centre opens". South China Morning Post. 25 January 1980. p. 14.
External links
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