THE CONFUCIAN TEAM
Joanna Wardega, Ph.D.
Director of the Confucius Institute Joanna Wardega is an assistant professor of the Middle and Far Eastern Studies Institute of Jagiellonian University. She studied Chinese language at universities in Shanghai and Xiamen. During many trips to almost all Chinese provinces she traversed more than a 100 thousand kilometres, discovering wander of the Middle Kingdom. She loves jiachang doufu and xiaolongbao.
Sun Zhongli
The Vice Director of the Confucius Institute in Cracow. In 1960's he studied Polish Studies at the University of Poznan. For a long time he worked for the Chinese-Polish Joint Stock Shipping Company as a translator and interpreter. While living in Poland for 12 years he visited the whole country, from Baltic sea to Tatra mountains. He is fascinated with Polish poetry and proverbs.
Zhang Xiaoli
A proud holder of two degrees – in Finance and in Malay Studies. She graduated from the School of International Business of Beijing Foreign Studies University. She was an exchange student at the University of Malaya. After coming to Poland she fell in love with Polish culture, food and the beautiful city she lives in – Cracow.
Lu Yan
a second-year graduate student in Beijing Foreign Studies University, now is one Chinese Voluntary Teacher in Krakow Confucius Institute. She is interested in touring, Chinese Dancing and Chinese Cooking.
Adina Zemanek, Ph.D.
PhD in cultural anthropology at the Jagiellonian University, and MA in Chinese and English language and literature at the University of Bucharest. Since 2001 she has been teaching Chinese language at the Jagiellonian University, since 2007 also at the Confucius Institute in Krakow. Fields of interest: media, popular culture, women's situation and middle class in China at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and at present.
Malgorzata Krzysko, MA
A graduate of Polish Studies and Far Eastern Studies. She is interested in Asian literature and movies as well as in food culture and aesthetics of art and everyday life of the Far Eastern people.
Monika Dabrowska, MA
A graduate of the Management and Social Communication Department of Jagiellonian University with specialization on tourism management. She chose those studies because of her interests – she loves to spend free time organizing trips for herself and her friends. When the weather is not trip-friendly she reads books, especially criminal novels.
