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PolishStudiesinChinaYesterdayandToday
TraditionandNewChallengesasExperienced
byaTeacherofPolishasaForeignLanguage
AgnieszkaJasińska
UniversityofWarsaw
aj.jasinska@uw.edu.pl
Abstract.TheChinesebecamefirstinterestedinPolandanditscultureduringthetmeof
greatchangesinbothPolandandtheirowncountry,namelyintheearly20thcentury.Yet
wehadtowaituntl1950sforthefirstChinesegraduatesofPolishstudies.Theirpioneer-
ingachievementsinresearch,translatonand,primarily,teachinghavebeenfollowedup
bylaudablesuccessors.Today,Polishstudiesareoferedinmorethanadozenacademic
centresacrossthePeople’sRepublicofChina.The21stcenturybringsmoregroundbreaking
eventsforPolandandChinaandtheintensificatonofmutualinterest:Poland’saccessionto
theEuropeanUnion,ontheonehand,andChina’s“NewSilkRoad”Programmeontheother.
TheprogressinmutualrelatonsgivesrisetothegrowinginterestinthePolishlanguageand
PolishcultureamongyoungChinesepeople.Theauthorofthistexthaspersonallyobserved
thosedevelopmentswhileworkingasateacherofPolishasaforeignlanguageatBeijing
ForeignStudiesUniversity(2000-2005)andatGuangdongUniversityofForeignStudies
(2014-2018).
Keywords:Polishlanguage;PolishstudiesinChina;BFSU;GDUFS;OneBelt,OneRoad
PolandandChinaareworldsapart-notonlyintermsofdistancebuttheir
culturesaregreatlydiferent,too.However,themutualinterestinbothnations
isnotthatrecent.MichałBoym,1aJesuitmissionaryfromLvivactiveinChina
duringthe17thcentury,wasapioneerofnotonlyPolishbutalsoEuropeansino-
logy.TeveryfirstmentionofPolandinChinesewritingsdatesbacktothe14th
century,2butthegreaterawarenessaboutPolandanditscultureemergedduring
1TeChinesetranslatorofBoym’swork,ZhangZhenhui(张振辉)professorattheInstitute
ofForeignLiteratureoftheChineseAcademyofSocialSciences,supposedlysaid:uMichBoymwas
atruefriendoftheChinesepeopleandgreatlycontributedtotheculturalexchangebetweenPoland
andChina.HisscientificworkswerefirsttranslatedfromLatinintoPolishbyEdwardKajdańskito
allowfortheirtranslationbymyselffromPolishintoChinese”(Rasińska2013,p.81).
2SeeWłodarski,Zhao2014,pp.18-19.
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