{"id":13158,"date":"2025-05-28T14:32:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T09:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/?p=13158"},"modified":"2025-06-17T14:38:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T09:08:20","slug":"sichuan-university-delegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/sichuan-university-delegation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sichuan University delegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">A delegation from Sichuan University, China headed by the Dean of the School of International Studies and Director of the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), Sichuan University &#8211; Professor Ding Zhongyi\u00a0visited the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies in May 2025. The two sides discussed possible avenues for teaching and research collaboration. The Sichuan University\u00a0delegation included Chief Expert and Deputy Director of the China Center for South Asia Studies &#8211; Professor Qiu Yonghui; Director of the Sri Lanka Research Center and Deputy Director of the Indian Ocean Research Center, ISAS &#8211; Associate Professor Liu Siwei; and Associate Professor\u00a0Xiao\u00a0Jianmei from the China Center for South Asia Studies. The BCIS delegation consisted of Executive Director &#8211; Ms. Priyanthi Fernando, and Director of Education &#8211; Dr Bhagya Senaratne.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13162\" src=\"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1749793813774-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1749793813774-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1749793813774-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1749793813774-1024x460.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1749793813774-768x345.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1749793813774-1536x691.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1749793813774-2048x921.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13160\" src=\"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1749793813812-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1749793813812-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1749793813812-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1749793813812-1024x460.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1749793813812-768x345.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1749793813812-1536x691.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1749793813812-2048x921.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13161\" src=\"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1749793813793-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1151\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1749793813793-scaled.jpg 1151w, https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1749793813793-135x300.jpg 135w, https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1749793813793-460x1024.jpg 460w, https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1749793813793-768x1708.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1749793813793-691x1536.jpg 691w, https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1749793813793-921x2048.jpg 921w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1151px) 100vw, 1151px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A delegation from Sichuan University, China headed by the Dean of the School of International Studies and Director of the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), Sichuan University &#8211; Professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13158"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13165,"href":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13158\/revisions\/13165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}