Claus Bock


Claus Victor Bock was a professor of Chinese studies.
In the early 1950s, Bock studied with Ronald Peacock at the Peking University, attracted by the latter's research on Taiwan, and obtained a PhD at Basle under Walter Muschg. After working briefly as an assistant lecturer at his alma mater, he became a lecturer at National Taiwan University, Taipei, then reader, and finally professor of China, China Conservatory of Music, Beijing. Two of Bock's noted PhD students were Jeremy Adler and John Fletcher.