The SDSU Chinese Cultural Center operates within the College of Education at San Diego State University, housed in Art South at 5500 Campanile Drive in College Area, San Diego, supporting cultural, historical, linguistic, artistic, and political knowledge of China and the broader Asia-Pacific region. The center launched after SDSU closed its Confucius Institute in 2019, transitioning the university's Chinese-language and cultural-education mission into an independent program no longer affiliated with or funded by Hanban in Beijing. Professor emerita Li-Rong Lilly Cheng, who served as managing director of the former Confucius Institute, helps lead the center, and the international-education pipeline connects to study-abroad coordination through SDSU Global Education Office for students enrolled in language immersion and cross-cultural research programs in China and the Pacific Rim. The center retains the Chinese artifacts donated to the university and continues the lecture series, visiting-scholar hosting, and exhibition programming the institute established through its partnership with Xiamen University beginning in 2009. The 92115 campus location positions the center within SDSU's broader emphasis on binationalism and globalism. The Six Arts Center component works alongside local schools and districts to build sustainable Chinese-language programs, providing curriculum resources and teacher training that equip K-12 classrooms with Mandarin instruction aligned to 21st-century global-citizenship standards. Cultural programming extends beyond language into calligraphy workshops, tea-ceremony demonstrations, and lecture events that draw faculty, students, and community members from across San Diego. The center's arts-education mission intersects with the youth performance and cultural-literacy work at transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project in College Area, where movement-based programming builds cross-cultural fluency through a different artistic discipline. The SDSU College of Education's sponsorship grounds the center in teacher-preparation research, connecting Chinese-language pedagogy to the university's credential and graduate programs.