Biography
I had taught in China and the U.S. before moving to Waterloo. The courses that I am teaching at Renison include Chinese language courses of different levels, Chinese Culture & Society (EASIA202R), Strategic Approaches to Learning East Asian Languages (EASIA101R), and Pre-Modern Chinese Literature (EASIA360R).
My fields of interest include comparative literature, introduction of Chinese classical literature to the English world, and Chinese language pedagogy.
Educational Background
MA/PhD: Comparative Literature & World Literature, Zhejiang University, CHINA
BA: Teaching Chinese as Second Language, Beijing Foreign Studies University, CHINA
Highlights of Work Experience
Renison University College, the University of Waterloo, Canada
Lecturer: Teaching East Asian Studies Courses and Chinese as a Second Language
Zhejiang University, China
Associate Professor: Teaching Chinese as a Second Language
University of Michigan, USA
Lecturer: Teaching Chinese as a Second Language
Publications
- Translation of Science Fiction “The End of The Dreams” (by James Gunn, from English to Chinese), published by He’nan People’s Press, China, 1998.
- Co-author, Di Wu (editor-in-Chief) etc., Translation History of Zhejiang Literature, published by Hangzhou University Press, China, 2008.
- Author, Pearl S. Buck’s Translation of All Men are Brothers and Her Revolt against the West, Journal of Zhejiang University, China, 2010. (in Chinese).
- Author, Robert Frost as a Poet between Romanticism and Modernism, Zhejiang Academic Journal, China, 2010.
- Co-editor, Weimin Xu (editor-in-chief) etc., Studies on Principle and Practice of Teaching Chinese as Second Language, Proceedings of the International Symposium, Zhejiang University Press, China, 2012.
- Author, Review of Domestic & Foreign Research on Coetzee, Journal of Ningbo University, China, 2013.
- Author, “Childhood of Jesus” and the Poetic Salvation, Chapter in Studies on Narration and Space, pp 151-166. Chinese International Broadcasting Press, China, 2018.
- Author, The Dilemma of “White Writing”: Coetzee and His Rewriting of Literary Classics Chapter in Study on the Generation and Dissemination of Foreign Literary Classics (Vol. 7), Beijing University Press, China, 2019.
- Author, Narrative Form of Diary of a Bad Year and “Authorial Chronotope”; pp 81-93, Chapter in Study of English Literature in African Countries, Shanghai: East China University of Science and Technology Press, China, 2019.
- Author, Person, Tense and Self in Coetzee’s “Autobiographical Trilogy”, Chapter in Study of English Literature in African Countries; pp 106-117, Shanghai: East China University of Science and Technology Press, China, 2019.
- Co-translator (of the English version), A Practical Chinese-English Dictionary of Difficult and Important Words for Teaching Chinese to Foreigners. Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 2022.
- Author, Pearl S. Buck’s Translation of All Men are Brothers and Her Revolt against the West, Chapter collected in A Collection of Pearl S. Buck Studies in China - Pearl S. Buck and the Chinese Novel. Nanjing: Jiangsu University Press, China, 2022.