{"id":7537,"date":"2015-04-30T12:36:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T16:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=7537"},"modified":"2015-04-30T12:36:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T16:36:09","slug":"bfsu-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/bfsu-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Foreign Studies University Delegation Visit to the Brown University Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7542\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-01-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"BFSU-01\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-01-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-01-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-01-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-01-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-01-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-01-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-01-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-01-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-01-900x675.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On April\u00a029, 2015, a delegation from Beijing Foreign Studies University visited Brown University and the Library. Headed by Professor Peng Long, President of Beijing Foreign Studies University, the delegation included Professors Zhang Jian, Dean of the School of English and International Studies, Li Liwen, Dean of the School of English for Specific Purposes, Wang Lidi, Dean of the Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation, and Niu Huayong, Dean of the School of International Business, as well as Dr. He Jing, Deputy Director of the Office for Confucius Institutes and Mr. Wen Bin, Program Officer of International Affairs Office.<\/p>\n<p>After meeting with President Paxson, Sonia Feigenbaum, Associate Provost for Global Engagement, Karen Sibley, Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Dean, School of Professional Studies, and faculty members from the Department of American Studies (which has established a graduate exchange program with BFSU), the guests visited the Library. Christine Sprovieri, Global Relations Officer, Office of Global Engagement, coordinated the delegation\u2019s visit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7543\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-02-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"BFSU-02\" width=\"584\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-02-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-02-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-02-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-02-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-02-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-02-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-02-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-02-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/BFSU-02-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ned Quist, Associate University Librarian for Research and Outreach, Li Wang, Curator of East Asian Collection, Peter Harrington, Curator of Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Holly Snyder, Curator of American Historical Collections, and Jenny Li, Senior Library Specialist in Circulation &amp; Resource Sharing, led\u00a0the delegation on a\u00a0tour the Rockefeller and John Hay Libraries. The BFSU guests had a chance to view buildings, facilities, special rooms, and some rare items in special collections. They were very impressed with what they saw during the short library tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April\u00a029, 2015, a delegation from Beijing Foreign Studies University visited Brown University and the Library. Headed by Professor Peng Long, President of Beijing Foreign Studies University, the delegation included Professors Zhang Jian, Dean of the School of English and International Studies, Li Liwen, Dean of the School of English for Specific Purposes, Wang Lidi, <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/bfsu-visit\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Beijing Foreign Studies University Delegation Visit to the Brown University Library<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}