Beijing Foreign Studies University

Beijing Foreign Studies University
北京外国语大学

Motto	兼容并蓄博学笃行^[1]
Type	National
Established	1941
President	Peng Long
Academic staff	1,413
Students	8,600
Location	Beijing, China
Campus	Urban
Website	http://www.bfsu.edu.cn/

Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) (Chinese: 北京外国语大学; pinyin: Běijīng Wàiguóyǔ Dàxué), formerly known as the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute (Chinese: 北京外国语学院), is a university located in Beijing, China. It is China's foremost foreign language teaching university according to recent collegiate rankings.^[2]

The university's campus occupies 304,553 square meters, with a student dormitory area of 40,000 m² and a library of 9997 m², and is divided in two by Beijing's Third Ring Road. Other facilities on campus include an audiovisual center, a gymnasium, dining halls, and tennis courts. The university is popularly known as Běiwài (Chinese: 北外) in Mandarin and BFSU in English.

As a renowned teaching university, BFSU was affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from its establishment in 1941 to the early 1980s and was classified a key university under the Ministry of Education.

The wide ranging studies at BFSU are provided by over 600 faculty members, in addition to approximately 120 international experts and teachers invited from more than 20 countries each year.

BFSU qualified for the first round of the competition in its efforts to enter Project 211, a university development programme launched by the Ministry of Education in 1996.

History

Beijing Foreign Studies University was founded by the Communist Party of China in Yan'an in 1941, then known as the Russian Language Team in the Third Branch of Chinese People’s Anti-Japanese Military and Political College (Chinese: 中国抗日军政大学三分校俄文大队). The team was later renamed as Yan’an Foreign Languages School (Chinese: 延安外国语学校). In the Chinese Civil War, the school moved several times, till it settled down in Beijing in 1949 and gained its new name - Beijing Foreign Languages Institute. The current name was used since 1994. It was the first institution in the country to specialize in foreign language studies.

Schools and Departments

Schools

The gym of Beiwai

Law School
School of Asian and African Studies
- Department of Korean Studies
- Department of Southeast Asian studies
  - Cambodian Studies
  - Lao Studies
  - Malay Studies
  - Indologie
  - Vietnamese studies
  - Burma studies
  - Thai studies
  - Filipinology
- Department of South Asian Studies
  - Sinhala
  - Hindi
  - Urdu
- Department of West Asian and African Studies
School of Chinese Language and Literature
- Department of Chinese Language
- Department of Chinese as a foreign language
School of English and International Studies
- Department of English Studies
- Department of International Journalism and Communication
- Department of Translation and Interpretation
- Department of Irish studies
School of European Languages and Culture
- Department of Eastern and Southern European Studies
  - Albanology
  - Bulgarian Studies
  - Czech studies
  - Slovak Studies
  - Romanian Studies
  - Hungarian studies
  - Italian Studies
  - Latin
  - Maltese Studies
  - Polish Studies
  - Serbian Studies
  - Croatian studies
  - Slovene Studies
  - Greek Studies
- Department of Northern European Studies
  - Danish Studies
  - Dutch Studies
  - Estonian Studies
  - Finnish Studies
  - Icelandic Studies
  - Latvian Studies
  - Lithuanian Studies
  - Norwegian Studies
International Business School
- Department of Accounting
- Department of Business Administration
- Department of E-commerce and Information Management
- Department of Finance
- Department of International economics
- 国际金融与商务研究所
School of International Relations and Diplomacy
- Department of Diplomacy
- Department of International Politics
- 国际问题研究所
School of Russian Studies
- Russian Studies
- Ukrainian studies
Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation

Departments

Department of Arabic Studies
- Arabic Studies
Department of French and Francophone Studies
- French Studies
- Swiss Studies
Department of German Studies
- German Studies
- Swedish Studies
Department of Japanese Studies
- Japanese Studies
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
- Spanish Studies
- Portuguese Studies
Department of Computer Science

Online Law Programs

Since in 2012, Beijing Foreign Studies University became the first Chinese University to offer its law courses online in English in a partnership with Spirit of Law School of Law. This includes an online LLM for international professionals and is awarded by Beijing Foreign Studies University, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Justice of the People’s Republic of China. Full information can be found at www.bfsulaw.com.^[3]^[4]

Languages

Arabic
Chinese (as a foreign language)
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Latin
Latvian
Malay
Norwegian
Persian
Portuguese
Russian
Serbian
Spanish
Thai
Turkish
Vietnamese

Source:^[5]

International students

International students told the Global Times newspaper they were highly satisfied with the Chinese language program. The report also said the facilities are modern and the teaching staff is dedicated.^[6] ^[7]

Notable faculty, administrators, and alumni

Faculty

Wang Zuoliang 王佐良-literary critic and poet, professor of English literature
Xu Guozhang 许国璋 – educator
Zhou Jueliang 周珏良-literary critic, professor of English literature
Hu Wenzhong 胡文仲-Co-host of BBC English language teaching program Follow Me!, professor of Australian literature, educator
Chen Lin 陈琳 – educator
He Qixin 何其莘 – co-author of New Concept English
jin limin 金利民 – co-author of New Concept English

Administrators

Yang Shangkun 杨尚昆 – late President

Alumni

Writers

Gao Xingjian 高行健 – Nobel laureate
Liu Zhenyun 刘震云
Bi Shumin 毕淑敏
Chen Shucai 陈树才
Jin Zhong 金重
Qiu Xiaolong 裘小龙

Academics

Bai Ruoyun (Toronto) (Media/Culture)
Chen Li (Toronto) (History/Law)
Chen Xiaomei (California) (Literature)
Feng Huiyun (Utah State) (Politics)
He Kai (Utah State) (Politics)
Hu Ying (California) (Literature)
Liu Haiming (Cal Poly) (Asian/Asian American Studies)
Sheng Yumin (Wayne State) (Politics)
Song Geng (Hong Kong) (Literature)
Wang Ban (Stanford) (Literature)
Yang Guobin (Pennsylvania)(Media/Sociology)
Yang Jianhua 杨建华, also: Peter Jianhua Yang (Cleveland), BA 1974, German Studies and MA 1982, German Studies. PhD 1996 from University of Utah, German Studies; PhD 2014 from Ruhr University Bochum, Green Economics — Associate Professor of German Studies at Case Western Reserve University ^[8] since 2002, author of several books in German Studies and Green Economics.
Zhao Shenghui (Miami) (Management/Marketing)

In politics

Li Guixian 李贵鲜 – State Councilor
Li Zhaoxing 李肇星 – Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China
Zhou Nan 周南 – Vice Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China
Zhang Hanzhi 章含之 – Vice Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China
Fu Ying 傅莹 – Vice Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China
Zhang Deguang 张德广 – Vice Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China
Wu Dawei 武大伟 – Vice Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China

In commerce and media

He Jiong 何炅
Jason Tom 譚志豪/谭志豪 - Chinese American beatboxer, entrepreneur, and mentor
Xu Gehui 许戈辉
Yang Lan 杨澜 – TV host

International Cooperation

Confucius Institutes

References

↑ "大学简介". Beijing Foreign Studies University. Retrieved June 24, 2014.
↑ "高校排名：2014年中国语言类大学排行榜". Retrieved 30 September 2015.
↑ "LLM GUIDE - Beijing Foreign Studies University Announces Online LL.M. Programs". Retrieved 30 September 2015.
↑ "About Online Chinese Law Programs". Beijing Foreign Studies University. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
↑ "北京外国语大学：外语语种全国最多(图)". Retrieved 30 September 2015.
↑ http://beijing.globaltimes.cn/life/edu-tech/2011-06/661373.html
↑ http://beijing.globaltimes.cn/life/edu-tech/2011-06/661375.html
↑ Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. "Prof. Peter Jianhua Yang". Case Western Reserve University. Retrieved 10 February 2016.

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Coordinates: 39°57′15″N 116°18′15″E / 39.95417°N 116.30417°E / 39.95417; 116.30417

Alumni of Nobel Laureates from the universities in mainland China

Physics	National Southwestern Associated University, ROC Chen-Ning Yang & Tsung-Dao Lee

Literature	Beijing Foreign Studies University Gao Xingjian Beijing Normal University Mo Yan

Peace	Jilin University Liu Xiaobo Beijing Normal University Liu Xiaobo

Physiology or Medicine	Peking University Tu Youyou

Universities and colleges in Beijing

Education, Higher education, and Universities in China

National	Peking University Renmin University of China Tsinghua University Beijing Electronic Science and Technology Institute Beijing Foreign Studies University Beijing Forestry University Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing Language and Culture University Beijing Normal University Beijing People's Police College Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Beijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing University of Chinese Medicine Beijing University of Physical Education Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Central Academy of Drama Central Conservatory of Music Central University of Finance and Economics China Agricultural University China Central Academy of Fine Arts China Foreign Affairs University China Institute of Industrial Relations China University of Geosciences (Beijing campus) China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing campus) China University of Petroleum (Beijing) China University of Political Science and Law China Women's University China Youth University for Political Sciences Chinese People's Public Security University Communications University of China Minzu University of China North China Electric Power University (Beijing campus) North China University of Technology Open University of China Peking Union Medical College University of Chinese Academy of Sciences University of International Business and Economics University of International Relations University of Science and Technology Beijing

Municipal	Beijing International Studies University Beijing Information Science and Technology University Beijing Technology and Business University Beijing University of Technology Beijing University of Agriculture Beijing Materials University Capital University of Economics and Business Capital University of Medical Sciences Capital Normal University North China University of Technology China College of Music Beijing Dance Academy Beijing Film Academy Beijing Institute of Clothing Technology Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology Beijing Institute of Machinery Beijing Union University

Private	Beijing City College

See also: List of universities in China

Project 211

Higher education and universities in China

Beijing	Beijing Foreign Studies University Beijing Forestry University Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing Normal University Beihang University Beijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing University of Chinese Medicine Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing University of Technology Central Conservatory of Music Central University of Finance and Economics China Agricultural University China University of Geosciences China University of Mining and Technology China University of Political Science and Law Communication University of China Minzu University of China North China Electric Power University Peking Union Medical College Peking University Renmin University of China Tsinghua University University of International Business and Economics University of Science and Technology Beijing

Shanghai	Donghua University East China Normal University East China University of Science and Technology Fudan University Second Military Medical University Shanghai International Studies University Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai University Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Tongji University

Tianjin	Nankai University Tianjin Medical University Tianjin University

Chongqing	Chongqing University

Anhui	Anhui University Hefei University of Technology University of Science and Technology of China

Fujian	Xiamen University Fuzhou University

Guangdong	Jinan University South China Normal University South China University of Technology Sun Yat-sen University

Guizhou	Guizhou University

Gansu	Lanzhou University

Hainan	Hainan University

Hebei	Hebei University of Technology

Heilongjiang	Harbin Engineering University Harbin Institute of Technology Northeast Agricultural University Northeast Forestry University

Henan	Zhengzhou University

Hubei	China University of Geosciences Wuhan University Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan University of Technology Huazhong Agricultural University Huazhong Normal University Zhongnan University of Economics and Law

Hunan	Central South University Hunan Normal University Hunan University National University of Defense Technology

Jiangsu	China Pharmaceutical University Hohai University Jiangnan University Nanjing Aeronautics and Astronautics University Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing Normal University Nanjing University Nanjing University of Science and Technology Soochow University Southeast University

Jiangxi	Nanchang University

Jilin	Jilin University Northeast Normal University Yanbian University

Liaoning	Dalian Maritime University Dalian University of Technology Liaoning University Northeastern University

Qinghai	Qinghai University

Shaanxi	Chang'an University Fourth Military Medical University Northwest A&F University Northwest University Northwestern Polytechnical University Shaanxi Normal University Xi'an Jiaotong University Xidian University

Shandong	China University of Petroleum (Huadong) Shandong University Ocean University of China

Shanxi	Taiyuan University of Technology

Sichuan	Sichuan Agricultural University Sichuan University Southwest Jiaotong University Southwestern University of Finance and Economics University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Yunnan	Yunnan University

Zhejiang	Zhejiang University

Guangxi	Guangxi University

Inner Mongolia	Inner Mongolia University

Ningxia	Ningxia University

Tibet	Tibet University

Xinjiang	Shihezi University Xinjiang University

See also: Project 985

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