Classical Chinese Poetry and Thought Pre-Qin Chinese historiography and thought; Chinese poetry; Chinese, Greek, and Latin comparative literature.
Harvard University 1989-1996 PhD, Comparative Literature (Chinese, Greek, and Latin literatures, with emphasis on early narrative and the development of historiography). Dissertation: “Foundations of Chinese Historiography: Literary Representation in Zuo zhuan and Guoyu.” National Taiwan University 1986-1988 Elective Student, Department of Chinese Literature Stanford University 1982-1986 A.B., ...
Functional Linguistics Mandarin discourse and grammar, applied linguistics, social and cultural linguistics, corpus linguistics.
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1993
modern and contemporary Chinese literature, Chinese cinema, popular culture in modern China, and literary translation.
PhD in East Asian Languages & Cultures at Columbia University
Chinese Archaeology archaeology of prehistoric and Bronze Age China, focusing on state formation, social memory, storytelling, place-making, and religious and social responses to climatic change maritime archaeology of the Asiatic Trade in the Early Modern Era (13-17th centuries), using research on ceramic production and trade in coastal China and Southeast Asia to document the transformations ...
graduate seminars in archaeology theories undergraduate courses on anthropological archaeology and ancient civilizations of China
Premodern Chinese Literature and Cultural History narrative literature from early medieval through medieval China (220–907 CE), with an emphasis on texts from the northern dynasties
Ph.D. in Chinese Literature and Cultural History from the East Asian Languages and Cultures department at Columbia University in spring 2015
East Asian Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, Asia Institute, Buddhist Studies
Chinese Asian Languages and Cultures
Premodern Chinese Literature and Cultural History
Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, Chinese and Comparative literature (2014) M.A., English Language and Literature, Peking University (2008) B.A., English, Renmin University of China (2005)
Modern Chinese Culture and History culture and history of modern China, with particular focus on left wing cultural politics and international communism
Ph. D in Comparative Literature from Washington University in St. Louis in summer 2017
semantics and syntax-semantic interface, specifically, event structure, scalar structure, lexical aspect, and grammatical aspect.
2008 Ph.D. Linguistics. University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Dissertation: Scalarity and Incomplete Event Descriptions in Mandarin Chinese. Advisor: Dr. Jean-Pierre Koenig. Committee: Dr. Robert Van Valin, Jr., Dr. Jürgen Bohnemeyer 2005 M.A. Linguistics. University at Buffalo, State University of New York 1997 M.A. Linguistics. National Chengchi University 1993 B.A. English. So...
2007-Present, Lecturer, Asian Languages and Cultures Department, University of California, Los Angeles 2006, Adjunct Lecturer, Linguistics Department, University at Buffalo, State University of New York\ 2001-2005, Teaching Assistant, Linguistics Department, University at Buffalo, State University of New York 1995-1998, Research Associate, Chinese Knowledge Information Processing Group, Institu...
Cultures in Transnational Perspective Comparative Literature, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian American Studies