4月10日，由我校举办的博鳌亚洲论坛“2014亚洲文化与企业发展动力”分论坛召开，中心张西平教授率领中心成员李真副教授、管永前博士出席论坛。在论坛举行期间，张西平教授接受了《中国日报》记者的采访，张教授认为过去100多年的时间里，我们把更过的关注投向了欧美国家，而忽视了对我们邻国文化等的关注，中国的大学生能够很轻易的讲出西方一些哲人学者的名字，能够侃侃而谈西方文化，但是对于类似于柬埔寨和老挝这样国家的历史和文化却知之甚少。但是，我们需要对亚洲文化有一个整体的研究来促进我们的发展。中国学者应该将亚洲丰富而多样性的文化介绍给国内民众和企业，同时要借助世界汉学家的力量，在亚洲各国讲好中国的文化和形象，以此来达到亚洲各个国家的相互了解，共同发展与繁荣。

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Zhang Xiping, director of the National Research Center of Overseas Sinology at Beijing Foreign Studies University, emphasized that China needs to conduct an overall study of Asian cultures because systematic analyses of Asia by Chinese intellectuals have been almost missing since the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).

"During the last 100 years, we have devoted a lot more attention to Europe and theUSthan to our neighbors, because Asian countries are smaller in size and weaker in economic development," Zhang said.

"Chinese undergraduates can easily talk about Western intellectuals and tell stories related to Western culture, but they know little aboutCambodiaandLaos."

However, the situation has started to change, he said, since Chinese President Xi Jinping made diplomacy with neighboring countries a priority.

Zhang urged Chinese scholars to introduceAsia’s rich and diversified cultures to the general public and domestic companies to help increase mutual understanding among Asian countries.

BeijingForeignStudiesUniversityinvited Sinologists from 19 Asian countries to attend a seminar on Asian cultures and values inBeijinglast October.

"We hope that our neighbors will get a real picture ofChinathrough the eyes of Sinologists," Zhang said.

The university has also started building a database of Sinologists around the world and is collecting information on academic institutions specializing in Asian studies.

The university offers programs in all the official languages of the ASEAN countries to cultivate knowledge aboutChina’s neighboring countries and cultivate talent with excellent Asian-language skills.

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