Brian Evans' View Of China And China-Canada Relations

Brian Llewellyn Evans is a well-known Canadian scholar on Chinese issues and a leading figure in the development of Chinese studies in Canada.He devoted his whole life to the study of Chinese issues by involving in Chinese history,economy,culture,policy,diplomacy,education and many other aspects.His publications are widely read and well influential in both Canada and China,which has won him a title of China Hand.This thesis focuses on the impact of Brian's view of China on the China-Canada relations through combing the achievements of Brian Evans with his outstanding contribution to China in his life both as a diplomat and a scholar.Besides,his relations with China and Canada as well as Chinese and Canadian scholars are examined to find out that his personal influence on Canadian scholars and others reveals his important position in the Chinese and Canadian academic circles.The full text is divided into six parts.The introductory part mainly describes the origin of the problem and the significance of the research.It includes the literature review of the Chinese and foreign publications,the main problems to be solved,and the research methods and sources of information.The first chapter combs the origin of Brian Evans' s view of China,mainly focusing on analyzing the cause of Brian Evans' s love for China,and how his view of China is formed.The second chapter explores Brian Evans' s career as a diplomat.It mainly analyzes the important role played by Brian in China-Canada relations when he was a diplomat in China and the influence of his view of China on the development of Sino-Canadian relations.The third chapter examines Brian Evans' s teaching career at the University of Alberta in Canada.It mainly analyzes Brian's teaching syllabus and his student training methods to see how he helped to the development of Chinese studies in Canada and what he has done might have potential impact on the healthy development of Sino-Canadian relations by two cases studies on the University of Alberta's East Asian Cultural Studies Center and China Institute to demonstrate the importance of Brian Evans.The fourth chapter locates on the inheritance of Brian Evans' s view of China and the development of Sino-Canadian relations.Through the analysis of Brian Evans' s publications and papers as well as his student Paul Evans,the thesis will demonstrate the role of his works and academic activities in Chinese culture and the exchanges between China and Canada.It proves that Brian Evans' s view of China has some unique impact on both the two sides relations and his students who have carried on his mission down to the next generation by summing up the important influence of his view of China on the development of Sino-Canadian relations.The conclusion part summarizes that a scholar could help to change or format the foreign policy of a country as well as to act as a bridge builder for the healthy relations between tow countries.