现在国家正在大力推广中国文化“走出去”战略,在全球设立了几百所孔子学院,教授汉语、传播中国文化。讲起美国大学开设中文课程之始,很多人会想到第一个在美国任教的中国人戈鲲化(1836—1882),1879年他从中国来到哈佛大学教授汉语。但他并不是第一个在美国教汉语和中国文化的人,美国汉学家卫三畏(Samuel Wells Williams,1812—1884)才是最早者。卫三畏曾在中国生活34年,集传 At present, the state is vigorously promoting the strategy of “going out” in Chinese culture and setting up hundreds of Confucius Institutes throughout the world to teach Chinese and spread Chinese culture. Speaking of the beginning of Chinese courses in American universities, many people think of the first Ge Kunhua (1836 - 1882), a Chinese teaching in the United States. In 1879, he came to China from Harvard to teach Chinese. But he was not the first to teach Chinese and Chinese culture in the United States. American scholar Samuel Wells Williams (1812-1884) was the earliest. Wei Sanwei had lived in China for 34 years