Editor’s Note: Tao Xie is a professor of political science at the School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University. He is the author of U.S.-China Relations: China ...

Confucius, the venerable sage who lived in the 6th century BC, is enjoying a 21st century revival. His rehabilitators? The Chinese Communist Party. Yes, that party, the one celebrating the 61st ...

“Avatar” was bumped off screens in China by a state-sponsored biopic on Confucius. We look at his teachings — and the rise of Confucianism in China today. Promotional poster for the new Chinese film ...

Reporting from Washington — Red hanging lanterns welcome visitors to the University of Maryland’s Confucius Institute, the oldest of about 100 Chinese language and cultural centers that have popped up ...

With the closing of Confucius Institutes, China may be heading for a “soft power” war with the West. The first Confucius Institute opened its door in November 2004 in Seoul, South Korea. Hanban, or ...

In this Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011 photo, Chinese paramilitary policemen stands guard in front of a sculpture of the ancient philosopher Confucius on displayed in near the Tiananmen Square in Beijing, ...

Colleges and universities across America shut the doors to their Confucius Institutes over the past several years amid growing criticism of the centers' funding connection to the Chinese communist ...

Confucius Institutes are billed by the Chinese Communist Party as benevolent language and culture programs and once numbered more than 100 on U.S. campuses across the country. But intelligence ...

The Chinese government wants to polish its terribly tarnished image and one of the tactics it has been using is to influence the education of American college students. Since 2004, the Chinese have ...

Our nation has endured revolution, civil war, world war, and cold war. We have survived every kind of hardship and won. Today, we are in a new kind of war: a war of information. The Chinese Communist ...