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Professor Liu Shusen Attends an International Workshop at Beijing Forum
10/11/2019 Professor Liu Shusen attended the international workshop “The Pacific Region in the Pacific Century: Competition, Coordination, and Inclusive Participation”, which was held in affiliation with the 2019 Beijing Forum on 2-3 November.
On 2-3 November, on behalf of New Zealand Centre at Peking University, Professor Liu Shusen attended the international workshop “The Pacific Region in the Pacific Century: Competition, Coordination, and Inclusive Participation”, which was held in affiliation with the 2019 Beijing Forum. The workshop was co-organized by Institute for China-US People-to-People Exchange at Peking University and Asia Institute of The University of Auckland. The workshop was attended by about thirty participants from China, New Zealand and Australia, including Former Chinese Ambassador to New Zealand Mr. Chen Mingming; Former New Zealand Ambassador Mr. Tony Browne; First Secretary of New Zealand Embassy to China Ms Sally Page; Deputy Director of Institute for China-US People-to-People Exchange Professor Wang Dong; Professor Pookong Kee, Professor Zha Daojiong, Professor Ding Dou and Professor Zhai Kun of the School of International Relations at Peking University; Dr Chen Xin, Professor Manuka Henare and Professor Ward Friesen of the University of Auckland; Professor Rouben Azizian of Massey University; Dr Charles Johnston of the Auckland University of Technology; Professor David Walker of Deakin University; Professor Han Feng of Beijing Foreign Studies University; and academics of other Chinese universities and institutions.
Group Photo of the Participants at the International Workshop “The Pacific Region in the Pacific Century: Competition, Coordination Inclusive Participation”
In his presentation “China-New Zealand Relations: Past, Present and Future”, Professor Liu Shusen, Director of New Zealand Centre, discussed the history and status quo of China’s engagement with New Zealand since the 1850s on the basis of some of his recent discoveries as China’s earliest coverage of New Zealand in English-Chinese newspapers and magazines published in China after the Opium War in 1840. According to his presentation, the earliest article on New Zealand that appeared in an English-Chinese bilingual newspaper in China is a reprint of the English coverage entitled “New Zealand Coal”, which was published in The North-China Herald (《北华捷报》) on 22 November, 1851. The original source of the coverage was The Auckland Independent on 6 Sept, 1851. The number of coverages and articles of various topics on New Zealand, which were published in China, reached its first peak in the 1930s, and then its second peak since 2010s. The statics indicates that those articles and coverages play an essential role for both the mutual understanding and bilateral relations between China and New Zealand. Professor Liu Shusen also introduced the history and role of New Zealand Centre at Peking University in enhancing academic exchanges and collaboration between Peking University and eight New Zealand universities and helping build up a stronger and more productive relationship between China and New Zealand. |
