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In the summer of 2007 I received an invitation to teach the first graduate course on evolutionary psychology given in the People's Republic of China and to give lectures at the Schools of Marxism and Business Administration of Tianjin Normal University as well as to the Tianjin Philosophical Society. Western Marxists tend to be very environmentalist in their approach to the study of human behaviour. Since evolutionary psychology, as I see it, focuses on the functioning of biologically innate psychological mechanisms, I was worried how my course and lectures would be received. Moreover, the invitation came because of my friendship with a senior party official. Hence, I also worried that my lectures might embarrass her. I spent some time partying with party officials and was taken on a tour of Confucius's home and other historical sites. It turned out to be one of the most interesting three weeks of my life and changed my view about many things in PR China.