Chinese Buddhism, the intellectual history of Chinese Buddhism, biographical literature and the representation of the person in the 7th century; Chinese Buddhist commentary
Habilitation, University of Heidelberg, 1999 Ph.D. in Chinese Studies, University of Tübingen, 1989 M.A. University of Tübingen, 1985
Seventeenth-century Chinese painting and woodblock-printed books
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH. B.A., Art History/Studio Art, 1970-1974 University of California, Berkeley, CA. M.A., Art History, 1974-1977 University of California, Berkeley, CA. Ph.D., Art History, 1977-1987 Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. 1976-77 Research Fellow, Kyoto University, 1980-83
Yale University Art Gallery, 1984-85, Intern, Department of Oriental Art Grinnell College, 1985-88, Instructor, Department of Art University of Chicago, 1988-93, Assistant Professor, Department of Art Stanford University, Winter 1994, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Art University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1995-present, Associate Professor, Art History
the role of family care giving in older adults’ recovery from physical and mental health problems the strategies for improving older adults’ access to needed health and mental health services.
BS, Capitol Normal University, Beijing, 1984 MSW, University of Iowa, 1994 PhD, Social Work, Washington University, 1999
Chinese word structure, Chinese psycholinguistics, and Chinese language learning
1976 B.A. magna cum laude in Chinese Language and Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 1982 M.A. in Linguistics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Thesis: The Acquisition of Modified Nominals in Mandarin Chinese. 1984 Ph.D. in Linguistics, Cornell University. Dissertation: A Linguistic Investigation of Tone Laterality in Aphasic Chinese Speakers.
7/84 - 7/85 Lecturer in Chinese, University of Pennsylvania 7/85 - 8/91 Assistant Professor, Chinese Language and Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania 8/91 - 8/93 Assistant Professor of Chinese and Linguistics, University of Illinois 8/93 - 8/00 Associate Professor of Chinese and Linguistics, University of Illinois 8/00 - date Professor of Chinese and Linguistics, University of Illinois 8/02...
unleash human potentials within their work, community, and societal context. investigating how the Internet and mobile technology can potentially change or have changed people’s learning and communication behaviors in teams, virtual teams, community of practices, and virtual community of practices to develop strategies to influence and enhance learning outcomes and promote performance improveme...
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University.
taught at the University of North Texas, Texas A&M University, and the North China University of Technology.
Chinese and Greek comparative literature modern and contemporary Chinese narrative modern Chinese intellectual history
History
Chinese Studies, Hong Kong Studies, Cultural history, Film history, War and culture
Ph.D, Stanford University, 1989
Professor of History, 2004-Present Professor of Asian American Studies Vice President, Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, 2019-Present Distinguished Visiting Professor, Faculty of Social Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Spring 2016 Director, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, 2010-2013
modern China, cultural history of Shanghai, Hong Kong cinema and popular culture, US-China cultural relations, and Global East Asia.
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how language structures itself at various levels of usages and how social interactions play a role in such structuring exploring how activity-based cognitive models are built interactively, for example, how children understand new concepts and how such conceptual orientation leads to new learning 1) genre features of marketplace interactions and how such genre features relate to the material an...
PhD in Applied Linguistics
Comparative Urban Politics and Policy, Urbanization in the Global South, Metropolitan and Urban Governance, City Building and Infrastructure Development, Urban Informality, Historic Preservation, Public Art and Creative Industry, Global Migration
2008 Ph.D. in Politics, Princeton University. Dissertation: The Fragmented City: Politics of Urban Preservation in Beijing, Paris, and Chicago. Advisers: Michael N. Danielson, Paul J. DiMaggio, Stanley N. Katz, Jessica L. Trounstine, Lynn T. White III (chair). Fields of specialization: Comparative Politics, Urban Politics, International Relations 2007 Institute for Qualitative Research Methods ...
Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, August 2014-Present Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, August 2008-July 2014 Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., 2015-2016
Sociocultural anthropology; policing, politics, law, security, justice, governance, administration and democracy; China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
B.A in Mathematics, University of Oregon Ph.D in Anthropology, University of Chicago
Methodology, Demography, Collective Memory, Life Course Researc
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Phonetics, Phonology, Tone, Intonation, Tone sandhi, Prosody modeling, Second Language Fluency, Pronunciation training, Chinese proficiency testing
Ph.D. in Linguistis. University of California at San Diego, 1986. M.A. in Linguistis. University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1979. B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature. National Taiwan University, 1977.
2007 - . Assoiate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of Linguistis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2003 - 2007. Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of Linguistis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 1993 - 2001. Member of the Tehnial Sta , Bell Laboratories, LuentTehnologies. 1989 - 1993. Assis...
how second language is acquired and taught, especially in different approaches used in teaching heritage and non-heritage students. language’s functions in migration recorded in film, narrative and poetry
ABD in Germanic Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago MA in Second Language Acquisition and Germanic Studies, Michigan State University BS in Technical German (Fachsprache), Tongji University, Shanghai
Asian diasporas in Latin America, particularly on the Chinese diaspora
Ph.D., History, Yale University B.A. History, Political Science, and Italian Studies, UC Berkeley
professor of Latin American history at the University of Colorado Boulder
Origins, structure, and development of the literary field Waka poetry and poetics Reception and uses of Sinitic culture in Japan Medieval, early-modern, and modern reception of Heian literature East Asian literary cultures
PhD Columbia University
legal history, nationality law, cultures of law, gender studies, gender and law, medical history of ethics and law, borderland studies, ethnic groups in China, U.S.-East Asia relationship, Sino-Japanese relationship
PhD, History Department, University of California Santa Barbara LLM, College of Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Asian Studies, Buddhism, Chinese Studies, East Asian Studies, Film Scripts, Korean Studies
International institutions International Relations Theory International cooperation International law and compliance Formal Theory
PhD The University of Chicago, 2000
teaching the foundations of the Mandarin system and incorporating cultural learning in the language classroom
MA in TESOL, Moray House Institute of Education, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK Two-Year Graduate Program in English Applied Linguistics, Beijing Foreign Studies University BA in English Language and Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University
professor of English at Beijing Foreign Studies University (China) teaching Mandarin Chinese in the United States since 2005
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