These are centres that teach Chinese language and promote Chinese culture.

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Reporters that more often than not know very little about Chinese language and culture.

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The university claims to be the only one in Wales where students can read degrees in the Chinese language and culture.

BBC: Lampeter University (picture: Lampeter University)

In Macau they also immersed themselves in Chinese language and culture, so that influences were traded, not merely imposed, and a tolerance established that would be lacking in later colonial encounters.

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