States.* For secondary schools and colleges that have no or little other coverage of China on campus, CIs are an important resource. Sponsored by the Hanban, an organization directly under the Ministry of Education in Beijing, but also with ties to the External Propaganda Leading Group of the CCP Central

-gifts, accessed 2018.07.17. 27 Admissions officers at leading universities say this is an increasingly common practice. 28 “China Studies Program.” Hanban. english.hanban.org/node_43075.htm. 29 This program, created in 2014, has been for short-term visits to China, but in 2018 has added a research gran