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7 unusual facts about Beijing Foreign Studies University


David Crook

They entered Beijing with the victorious Communists at "Liberation" in 1949 and for the next forty years, the Crooks taught at the Peking First Foreign Languages Institute (now the Beijing Foreign Studies University).

Hu Xijin

After graduating with a master's degree in Russian literature from Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1989, Hu began his career as a journalist at the People's Daily.

INTO University Partnerships

INTO has also set up university partnerships with three institutions in China: Nankai University, Beijing Foreign Studies University and Dongbei University of Finance and Economics.

Jin Liqun

Jin holds a master’s degree from Beijing Foreign Studies University and was a Hubert Humphrey Fellow in the Economics Graduate Program at Boston University.

Victor Gao

He graduated from a M.A. in English Language and Literature from Beijing University of Foreign Studies.

Yi Lijun

She taught Polish at the Department of East European Language, Beijing Foreign Studies University.

Zhou Lie

Zhou received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Arabic Studies from Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) in 1978 and got his PhD in 2000.


Meng Xianshi

In his speech in Beijing Foreign Studies University in 2010, he claimed that "Esperanto was created in the 1980s", which exposed his lack of academic preciseness.


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