Confucius Institute staff
Yi Zheng
Chinese Director
Yi Zheng, professor of Chongqing Normal University (CNU), China, specialises in English Literature and TESOL, as well as intercultural communication. He is a supervisor for the MEL and MTESOL in CNU.
Professor Zheng has 30 years of teaching and research experience in higher education institutions. He also has more than 20 years of experience in international collaborative education and teacher training. He once served as a visiting scholar at RMIT in Australia and Edge Hill University in UK. In the last decades, he has published more than 10 books and 30 articles. In addition, he was granted the Textbook Development Award by the Ministry of Education of China in 2025 for his special contribution to work-based textbook development.
Committed to higher education, he has specially made great contribution to the internationalisation of Chinese universities and colleges. Previously, he served as the Director of Sinhala Department at Chongqing Normal University for 7 years, conducting international collaboration and exchange programmes with the universities across the world, including the collaborative undergraduate programme between UOK and CNU, the Confucius Institute at EHU. Confucius Institutes aim to enhance people-to-people communication and cultural exchanges between China and the rest of the world. The Confucius Institute at EHU is dedicated to this aim and tries to serve as gateway to China by providing services to local students, teachers and communities as well as supporting local business needs in terms of Chinese language teaching, cultural activities and seminars, etc.
Professor Zheng hopes that the Confucius Institute at EHU can be a hub of learning Chinese language, Chinese culture, and China studies, thus promoting mutual understanding, communication and cooperation between China and the UK.