Esperanto Museum in Zaozhuang University
Zaozhuang University
Simplified Chinese枣庄学院
Traditional Chinese棗莊學院
Literal meaningZaozhuang College/Educational institute

Zaozhuang University (Chinese: 枣庄学院; lit. 'Zaozhuang College/Educational institute') is a post-secondary educational institution in Zaozhuang, Shandong, China.

History

Zaozhuang Teacher Training School opened in 1971. The government of Shandong Province converted it to a tertiary institute focused on the education field in 1984. It received its current name in 2004 along with a change into being a general post-secondary college.[1]

In 2018, Zaozhuang University began allowing students to major in Esperanto.[2] In 2023, in all of China, only Zaozhuang University still had a department dedicated to teaching Esperanto. In January 2023, that department had 24 students. That enrollment decreased after a social media influencer mocked the program the following month.[3]

In 2012, a museum to Esperanto (Esperanto Museum) was established at Zaozhuang University.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Zaozhuang University". China Daily. 2019-05-15. Retrieved 2024-01-06.
  2. 1 2 Fang, Tianyu (2021-06-24). "Esperanto, China's Surprisingly Prominent Linguistic Subculture is Slowly Dying Out". Radii China. Retrieved 2024-01-06. - Re-posted at the Global Council for Anthropological Linguistics, SOAS University of London.
  3. ↑ He, Kai; Wu, Huiyuan (2023-09-15). "China's Last Esperanto Students". Sixth Tone. Retrieved 2023-01-06.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.