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Join a series of events hosted by De Montfort University’s Confucius Institute (DMUCI) to celebrate Chinese New Year 2021.

Lecture Introduction

DMUCI and DMU Global welcome Professor Mark Buck, an expert in Western Culture and English Language and Literature at the University of Science and Technology Beijing for a one-hour lecture on ‘Understanding China’. The lecture will explore how people of all cultures can look beyond their own assumptions and beliefs in order to understand other cultures and Professor Mark Buck will emphasise on historical development and focus on the assumptions held by many in the West about Chinese society and government and compare them with assumptions held in China about Western society and government. You will also have the opportunity to interact in a Q&A at the end of the lecture.

About Professor Mark Buck

Mark Buck studied and taught History at Cambridge from 1971-82, apart from 1974-5 when he was J.H. Choate Fellow at Harvard. He obtained his B.A. in 1974 and his Ph.D in 1979. His main published work is on English finance in the 1320s. He has also contributed a dozen articles to the New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004). Before coming to China, he was Head of the History department and taught medieval and modern History, Latin and Critical Thinking at Lancing College. In 2005, he came to the University of Science and Technology Beijing, where he teaches Western Culture and English Language and Literature and is currently a professor. He is joint author of How to Read Western Media Closely (Science Press of China, 2009), and sole author of 大学体验英语 口语教程 4 (Higher Education Press, 2012), and also author of A Guide to the Two Sources of Western Civilization (Renmin University Press, 2018).