sentences:  In 1970, Billeter was appointed teaching assistant at the Ostasiatisches Seminar, at the University of Zurich (under Paul Kramers), where he worked until 1978.At the Faculty of Humanities, University of Geneva, he began giving courses on Chinese history in 1971 and set up a course in Chinese language in 1973.It would develop into a fully-fledged course in Chinese language and civilization, leading to a BA in Chinese studies in 1987, at which point Billeter was granted a professorship.