Students from Northern schools spent two days at the University of Leeds for a Chinese Culture Day run by the East Asian Studies Department (EAST) with support from the Business Confucius Institute at the University of Leeds (BCI).
Year 13 students from Harrogate Grammar School visited the University of Leeds to put some of their Mandarin learning into practice with Business Confucius Institute (BCI) teachers. The six students, who are about to take GCSE Mandarin alongside their A-levels, have been learning Chinese as an extracurricular option since Year 8. Harrogate Grammar School is...
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.
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.
Wishing you joy and prosperity in the Year of the Rabbit from the Business Confucius Institute at the University of Leeds!
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.
The Business Confucius Institute (BCI) at the University of Leeds announced and held a Chinese writing competition that provided students with an opportunity to practice their Chinese writing.
The Business Confucius Institute held various activities and events to celebrate the institute’s 10th anniversary on the week commencing 14 November 2022.
The annual ‘China Day’ for students at Harrogate Grammar School marks another successful year of Mandarin education and Chinese cultural experience at our Confucius Classroom. The event this year took place on Thursday 13 October. The event saw our new BCI teachers, Yuanyuan Liang, Yuqing Wang and Yixuan Deng.
The Fourth International Symposium on Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISOCTAL-4) was on 20-21 June 2022, hybrid online and in person on the campus of The University of Leeds. ISOCTAL is a bi-annual winter event and a high platform for frontline research in Chinese theoretical and applied linguistics, a promotion channel for global collaboration across disciplines and a network for future development and innovation. Our Business Confucius Institute at the University of Leeds sponsored the conference of this year.