Mark C. Eades is a teacher from the United States currently working at the College of Science and Technology, Ningbo University. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies in interdisciplinary Social Sciences and Humanities at San Francisco State University in California, USA. He has taught at high schools, colleges, and universities in both the United States and China. His work in China includes teaching at Fudan University, Shanghai International Studies University, and Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics before coming to the College of Science and Technology. In addition to teaching, he has also worked with these universities in editing and proofreading for university publications. 

His academic interests include art, literature, history, philosophy, and other subjects related to culture and society. His teaching experience includes courses in English language, Humanities, Art History, and other courses related to Western history, culture, and society. In his teaching, he strives to encourage students to engage with the subject on a personal level, and promotes active participation through class discussions, individual projects, and group projects. As an American teaching in China, he also tries to serve as a bridge for students between Chinese and Western cultures. In this effort, even his English language courses contain a strong cultural element including intercultural communication, since language and culture go hand-in-hand. In courses related to Western history, culture, and society, he encourages an appreciation of the similarities as well as differences between Chinese and Western cultures, and tries to help students develop a sense of familiarity with Western culture. He also emphasizes the deep historical ties leading from modern Western cultures back through earlier periods in history to ancient civilizations such as Greece and Rome, and the long history of contact and exchange between the West and China.

His first experience working with Chinese students was when he was still a university student in San Francisco, and worked as a teaching assistant with immigrant high school students from China and other countries in Asia and Latin America. His first visit to China was in 1991. Since then he has spent approximately fifteen years living and working in China and traveling in other Asian countries. In China he has lived in Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Ningbo (Cixi) and has travelled in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hainan in mainland China as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan. He has also traveled extensively in North America, Europe, and the Middle East.