In order to promote further Chinese teaching and cultural activities by Confucius Institute deeper into academic study, Confucius Institute at Adam Mickiewicz University has carried out a wide range of academic lectures on Chinese culture.

The speaker of the lectures is Prof. Gilles Guiheux from the Faculty of Languages and Cultures of East Asia at Diderot University in Paris, and his theme is “China in Transition”.

At the lecture “Chinese Socialist Heroes: From Workers to Entrepreneurs” held on May 31, 2012, Prof. Gilles Guiheux looked back at the coming back of Chinese private entrepreneurs, rural immigrants in China, and new labor regimes in the service sector, on basis of which the topic of construction of labor market of China was carried on.

At the lecture “Chinese consumption society" held on June 1, 2012, Prof. Gilles Guiheux began the lecture with different “three-major items” in 1950s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, and then continued with the topic of changes of Nanjing Road in Shanghai, with detailed introduction about the development of commercial economy after the policy of reform and opening to the outside world, as well as topics about construction of Chinese moderate well-off society, promotion of consumption within China and development of Chinese mid-class.

Prof. Gilles Guiheux provided the lectures invited by Confucius Institute at Adam Mickiewicz University, with the aim at helping Polish friends better and more deeply understand China in the process of modernization.

The lectures were warmly welcomed by students from Department of Sinology of Adam Mickiewicz University, students from Confucius Institute at Adam Mickiewicz University, and some teachers from Adam Mickiewicz University. Each lecture lasted over two hours, with heated interactive quiz between the speaker and the audience at the end of the lectures.