Contact us
Location
The Institute main office is second floor of the James Logie Building on the University of Canterbury Ilam campus. Our reception is in room 209.
Postal address
Confucius Institute at University of Canterbury
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
CHRISTCHURCH 8140
New Zealand
Phone and email
Phone: +64 3 369 4399
confucius-institute@canterbury.ac.nz
Director
Zhifang Song
Lecturer in Anthropology
Anthropology Undergraduate Coordinator
Elsie Locke Building 308
Phone: +6433695568
Internal Phone: 95568
Deputy Director
The Board
- Professor Kevin Watson (Chair)
Acting Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts UC - Professor CHEN Jianguo (Deputy Chair)
Vice-president of HUST - Professor Letitia Fickel Executive Dean of UC (Faculty of Education, Health and Human Development)
- Professor Evgeny Pavlov
Head of the Department of Global, Cultural and Language Studies at UC - Professor Chris Jones
Chair of the International Committee of Arts UC - Monique van Veen
International Partnership & Support Manager (International Relationships Office at UC) - Professor XU Mingwu
Dean of School of Foreign Languages at HUST - Mr LIU Junhua
Dean of School of International Education at HUST - Professor LIU Jiuming
Dean of School of Humanities at HUST - Dr CHEN Jie
Dean of Office of International Affairs at HUST
The Staff
- Weibin ZOU (Andy) – Chinese Language Instructor
- Zhengnan SHEN (Nadia) - Chinese Language Instructor
- Nancy CHU – Local Chinese Language Instructor
2021 Mandarin Language Assistants
- Xiaolu CHEN (Sharon) - Nelson
- Liming QI (Lydia) - Christchurch
- Liu YANG (Simone) - Christchurch
- Mei JIN (Emily) - Christchurch
- Weibin ZOU (Andy) - Christchurch
- Xinjie HU (Jade) - Christchurch
- Yayu LI (Skye) - Christchurch
- Yulian LI (Ann) - Lincoln
- Jie JIANG (Joanna) - Oamaru
- Xingna SHEN (Sinna) - Oamaru
- Ya YANG (Lydia) - Dunedin
- Fan ZHANG (Evan) - Balclutha
- Mingyu ZHU (Skylar) - Balclutha
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic, there are no current MLAs in 2022.