The Ultimate China Bookshelf with Paul French

Our next lecture on 30th March is now open for registration

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Learn Chinese

Learning Chinese opens up your world, challenges your mind, and above all, it's fun! Explore our website for information on our range of courses and Chinese proficiency exams.

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Discover Chinese Culture

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Understand Chinese consumers and business practices through expert insight from guest speakers and academics. View business-related events, courses, and research.

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The Business Confucius Institute at the University of Leeds

We promote the understanding of Chinese language and culture in the UK, with a business focus on helping companies to communicate with Chinese customers more effectively.

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Doing business in China right now can feel like an almost impossible task. Well, thus was it ever. And of...

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Engage with Chinese traditional arts in a completely new way! This unique series of three dance workshops, part of a University of Leeds PhD research project, will cover poetry, calligraphy and painting in an intensive three-day programme. 

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Professor Xiaolan Fu, Professor of Technology and International Development at the University of Oxford, looks ahead to China's role in the world economy at the end of this decade.

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Take HSK and HSKK Chinese Proficiency exams at the University of Leeds. Register by 15th May for this exam date.

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Announcing a unique series of three dance workshops, part of a University of Leeds PhD research project, that will lead participants to engage with Chinese traditional arts in a completely new way.

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The Business Confucius Institute (BCI) at the University of Leeds held a celebratory event to welcome the arrival of the Year of the Rabbit with a variety of cultural activities, such as engaging workshops, educational talks and performances led by our knowledgeable and talented staff on 18 January 2023.

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Wishing you joy and prosperity in the Year of the Rabbit from the Business Confucius Institute at the University of Leeds!

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Professor of China and International Studies at Lancaster University Jinghan Zeng visited us at the University of Leeds to give the 2022 Business Confucius Institute Annual Lecture on China’s emerging Artificial Intelligence industry. 

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Emily Austin-Howell shares some thoughts on her year spent as an intern with the Business Confucius Institute team as the...

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On 27 April 2022, Leeds alumnus James Halstead MCIL CL delivered a lecture about the global language service providing (LSP)...

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Leeds alumna Nandini Venkata was joined by a panel of women living and working in Beijing at an online event...

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Jacopo Mazzanati lived in China for five years working in the world of professional football as a coach and as...

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