Dr. Liren Benjamin Zeng has held faculty and administrative positions in five universities in China, the United States and Canada.

He also had a short stint as a senior executive in a public American company operating in China. Before becoming the Co-director of the Confucius Institute for Chinese Medicine at the University of the Western Cape, he was the inaugural Chinese Co-director of the Confucius Institute at Temple University. At his home institution, Zhejiang Normal University, he was a senior member of the International Affairs Office and a professor in the College of Foreign Languages.