Richard VanNess Simmons 

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Professor of Chinese and Chair
Department of Asian Language & Cultures
School of Arts and Sciences
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
330 Scott Hall, 43 College Avenue
New Brunswick , NJ 08901


Updated Fall 2011
 Tel: 732-932-7605
Fax: 732-932-7926
rsimmon@rci.rutgers.edu
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~rsimmon/

Also known as:
R. VanNess Simmons, Richard V. Simmons
史皓元 (sometimes written "史皓圆")
史瑞明 (prior to 1993)

Education

Highest Earned Degree
  Ph.D. in Chinese Linguistics and Dialectology, August 1992, University of Washington, Seattle.
 

Dissertation
  "The Hangzhou Dialect." Dissertation advisor: Professor Jerry Norman. The dissertation, based upon research done in China and Japan 1988-89, is a descriptive and comparative study of a Chinese dialect of significant historical interest.
 

Other Earned Degrees, Graduate and Undergraduate
  M.A. in Chinese Literature, June 1986, University of Washington, Seattle. Masters thesis: "The Soushen houji Attributed to Tao Yuanming (365-427)." Thesis advisor: Professor David Knechtges. The thesis is a study and translation of a Chinese Six Dynasties (222-589) collection of classical tales of the supernatural.
  B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature, March 1981, University of Washington, Seattle. Graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Employment History

Positions Held
  07/2011-ongoing Professor of Chinese at Rutgers University
  07/1999-06/2011 Associate Professor of Chinese at Rutgers University
  07/1993-06/1999 Assistant Professor of Chinese at Rutgers University
  09/1992-06/1993 Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese at Middlebury College
  09/1991-08/1992 Pre-doctoral Lecturer in Chinese at the University of Washington
  04/1987-06/1987 Pre-Doctoral Teaching Associate I in Chinese at the University of Washington
  09/1983-08/1986 Teaching Assistant in Chinese at the University of Washington

Publications

Books
  2011 Richard VanNess Simmons. Shanghainese-English/English-Shanghainese Dictionary and Phrasebook. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2011. 332 pp.
  2011 Richard VanNess Simmons 史皓元. Chinese Dialect Classification -- Theory and Practice 《汉语方言分区的理论与实践》(a revision and translation into Chinese of Simmons' Chinese Dialect Classification -- A Comparative Approach to Harngjou, Old Jintarn, and Common Northern Wu). Translated by Gu Qian 顾黔. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju 中华书局, 2011. 361 pp.
  2006 Richard VanNess Simmons史皓元, Shi Rujie 石汝杰 and Gu Qian 顾黔. Chinese Dialect Geography: Distinguishing Mandarin and Wu in Their Boundary Region 江淮官话与吴语边界的方言地理学研究. Shanghai: Shanghai Education Press 上海教育出版社, 2006. 338 pp.
  2006 Richard VanNess Simmons史皓元, Gu Qian 顾黔, and Shi Rujie 石汝杰. Handbook for Lexicon Based Dialect Fieldwork 汉语方言词汇调查手册. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju 中华书局, 2006. 196 pp. (On the copyright page of the first printing of this volume, Simmons' Chinese name is erroneously entered as "史皓圆".) Second printing Spring 2007.
  1999 Richard VanNess Simmons. Chinese Dialect Classification -- A Comparative Approach to Harngjou, Old Jintarn, and Common Northern Wu. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (E. F. K. Koerner, series editor), Volume 188. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Co., 1999.317 pp.
    • Reviews of this book include:
      • William G. Boltz. 2000. "Notes on Richard VanNess Simmons: Chinese Dialect Classification." In Oriens Extremus 42.1, 183-190.
      • Akitani Hiroyuki 秋谷裕幸. 2000. In Tôyô gakuhô 東陽學報 (Journal of the Research Department of the Tôyô Bunko 東陽文庫) 82.9, 1-8.
      • Zev J. Handel. 2001. In Journal of the American Oriental Society 121.4, 658-660.
 

Edited Books, Anthologies, Collections, Bibliographies
  1999 Richard VanNess Simmons, ed. Issues in Chinese Dialect Description and Classification. Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph Series, Number 15, 1999. 279 pp.
    • Review:
      • Laurent Sagart. 2002. In Journal of Chinese Linguistics 30.1, 179-193
 

Chapters in Books or Monographs
  2012 "The Rise of a New Urban Mandarin: Measuring the Outcome of Lexical Competition in the Contending Dialect Types of Jīntán County." In Urbanization, Language Contact, and Language Use in China, edited by Marinus van den Berg, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Forthcoming. 45 pp.
  2012 "Dialect Transition Zones in Southern Jiangsu—A Close Range Examination." In Microscopic Views of Language Distribution, edited by Cheng Chin-chuan, to be published by the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Forthcoming. 33 pp.
  2011 "Hangzhou Stories and Songs." In Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature. Edited by Victor H. Mair and Mark Bender. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. 12 pp.
  2010 "The Affiliation of the Yánzhōu Dialects From the Perspective of Common Dialectal Chinese 从汉语方言通音的角度考察严州方言的归属问题." In Studies in Honor of Jerry Norman 羅杰瑞先生七秩晉三壽慶論文集, edited by W. South Coblin and Ann O. Yue 柯蔚南、余藹芹 主編, published by the Ng Tor-tai Chinese Language Research Centre of the Institute of Chinese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong 香港中文大學中國文化研究所吳多泰中國語文研究中心, pp. 133-150.
  2006 "Common Dialect Phonology in Practice -- Y. R. Chao's Field Methodology." In The Chinese Rime-Tables: Linguistic Philosophy and Historical-Comparative Phonology. Ed. by David Prager Branner. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006, pp. 189-207.
  2006 "How Rime Book Based Analyses Can Lead Us Astray." In The Chinese Rime-Tables: Linguistic Philosophy and Historical-Comparative Phonology. Ed. by David Prager Branner. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006, pp. 171-181.
  2004 "A Syllabary for 'Jiangsu shin tzyhmuu [New phonetic letters for Jiangsu].'" Jointly authored with Shi Rujie. In "Wuyeu dwuben" onsei dēta no sakusei to kōkai [Compilation and publication of data for the Wu dialect reader]. Fukuoka University Research Reports for 2004, No. 14510491, pp. 1-10.
  2004 "Institute of Linguistics--Yuyan yanjiusuo (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing)." In Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture. Edited by Edward L. Davis. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. (1 page entry.)
  2003 “The Relationship of Wu and Mandarin Dialects in History: Assessing Change and Influence across Space and Time.” In Wuyeu yanjiu [Studies in Wu Dialects], Vol 2, edited by Shanghai shyh yeuwen shyuehuey [Shanghai city linguistics association] and Hong Kong yeuwen shyuehuey [Hong Kong linguistics association], 2003, pp. 31-43.
  2002 "A Gauchwen Village Dialect: Chyanshiyau tsuen [The Village Chyanshiyau]." In Short Chinese Dialect Reports 1, edited by David Prager Branner. The Yuen Ren Society Treasury of Chinese Dialect Data series, vol. III, 2002, pp. 155-256.
  1999 "On Chinese Dialect Classification -- A Case Study Examining the Relationship of the Harngjou and Jennjiang Dialects" In Issues in Chinese Dialect Description and Classification. Ed. by R. VanNess Simmons. Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph Series, Number 15, 1999, pp. 204-234.
  1995 "Distinguishing Characteristics of the Hangzhou Dialect." Wuyu yanjiu [Studies of the Wu Dialects]. Ed. by Eric Zee. New Asia Academic Bulletin, Vol. XI. Hong Kong: New Asia College, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995, pp. 383-98.
 

Articles in Refereed Journals
  2011 "Mixed Mandarin & Wú—Dialects of Jìngjiāng Island 靖江方言的性质." In Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics. Forthcoming. 29 pp.
  2007 "Perspectives on the history of Guānhuà -- Thoughts upon reading W. South Coblin's studies of nányīn and běiyīn." In Modern Chinese phonology: from Guānhuà to Mandarin. By W. South Coblin. Collection des Cahiers de linguistique - Asie Oriental, 11. École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale. Paris, 2007, 79-92.
  2007 "Isoglosses at the Boundary of Jiang-Huai Mandarin and Wu Dialects in Jiangsu 江苏境内长江两岸江淮官话与吴语边界的同言线." With Gu Qian 顾黔 and Shi Rujie 石汝杰. Studies in Language and Linguistics 语言研究 27.3, 2007.9, 14-25.
  2003 A Late Ching Wu Dialect Writing System — Ju Wenshyong’s “Jiangsu shin tzyhmuu [New phonetic letters for Jiangsu].” With Shi Rujie. In FULERC [Fukuoka University Language and Education Research Center]: Annual Review of Language Learning and Teaching, 2003.12, 25-32.
  2003 “The Distribution of Northern and Southern Lexicon in Danyang and Dantwu – A Preliminary Investigation.” In Junggwo yeuwen yanjiu [Studies in Chinese Linguistics], a refereed journal published in Hong Kong, Serial No. 16 (2003, No. 2 [September]), 1-14.
  1998 "Nantong and Harngjou Compared to Wu." Fangyan 方言 1998.2: 89-103.
  1998 "A Second Look at the Tôwa sanyô: Clues to the Nature of the Guanhuah Studied by Japanese in the Early Eighteenth Century." Journal of the American Oriental Society 117.3 (Fall 1997): 419-26.
  1996 "An Early Missionary Syllabary for the Hangzhou Dialect." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 59.3 (1996): 516-524.
  1996 "A Dialect of the Harngjou Suburbs -- a Vocabulary for Jiangjiatarng." The Yuen Ren Society Treasury of Chinese Dialect Data. 2 (March 1996): 113-147.
  1995 "A Recording of the Story and Song of a Venerable Harngjou Raconteur." The Yuen Ren Society Treasury of Chinese Dialect Data 1 (March 1995): 79-106.
  1995 "The Oral Transmission of a Late Nineteenth Century Harngjou Lyric." CHINOPERL Papers 18 (1995): 45-59.
  1995 "A Note on the Phonology of the Tôwa sanyô." Journal of the American Oriental Society 115.1 (Spring 1995): 26-32.
  1992 "Hangzhou Storytellers and Their Art." Kai Pian: Chûgokugogaku kenkyû [Studies in Chinese Language] 9 (1992): 1-25.
  1992 "Northern and Southern Forms in Hangzhou Grammar." Chinese Languages and Linguistics. Vol I: Chinese Dialects. Ed. by Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. Symposium Series of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. No. 2. Taipei: Academia Sinica, 1992. Pp. 539-561.
  1991 "Hangzhou Oral Performances." Kai Pian: Chûgokugogaku kenkyû 8(1991): 34-37.
  1989 "A Note on the Articulation of the -er Suffix in the Hangzhou Dialect." Fangyan 方言 1989.3: 180-81.
 

Published Conference Proceedings
  1996 "The Grey Area Between Mandarin and Wu Dialects: A Report on the Preliminary Mandarin-Wu Classification." In Volume III of the Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Languages and Linguistics: Pan-Asiatic Linguistics, in Bangkok, Thailand, January 8-10, 1996, 1051-1076.
 

Reviews
  2009 Review of A Systemic Functional Grammar of Chinese, by Eden Sum-hung Li. In The Modern Language Journal 93.1, 2009, pp. 125-126. [Correction to note: in this article as it was published, Systemic was incorrectly rendered as "Systematic."  Please see the Eratta page.  Simmons' deeply regrets the error and extends his sincerest apologies to the author of the book, Eden Sum-hung Li.]
  2005 Review of Difficult Characters: Interdisciplinary Studies of Chinese and Japanese Writing, ed. by Mary S. Erbaugh. In The Modern Language Journal. 87.3 (Autumn 2003): 478-79; and 89.1 (Spring 2005): 147-48.
  2003 Review of The Physical Foundation of the Patterning of Physical Action Verbs: A Study of Chinese Verbs, by Gao Hong. In The Modern Language Journal. 87.3 (Autumn 2003): 476-77.
  2002 Review of The Morphology of Chinese: A Linguistic and Cognitive Approach, by Jerome L. Packard. In The Modern Language Journal. 86.1 (Spring 2002): 139-140.
  2001 Review of Problems in Comparative Dialectology: The Classification of Miin and Hakka, by David Prager Branner. In Journal of the American Oriental Society. 121.2 (Spring 2001): 322-324.
  1998 Review of The Oral Tradition of Yangzhou Storytelling, by Vibeke Børdahl. Journal of Asian Studies. 56.3 (August 1997): 757-58.
 

Other Publications
  2012 Chinese translation of Jerry Norman 1994 "Pharyngealization in Early Chinese 早期汉语的咽化与腭化." With Gu Qian 顾黔. In 海外音韵学论文选译 [Selected Essays on Chinese Phonology by Scholars Outside China]. Edited by Pan Wuyun 潘悟云. (Original English article appeared in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, 114.3.)
  2011 Chinese translation of Jerry Norman 2006 "Common Dialectal Chinese 汉语方言通音." With Zhang Yanhong 张艳红. Fangyan 方言 2011.2, pp. 97-116. (Original English article appeared in The Chinese Rime-Tables: Linguistic Philosophy and Historical-Comparative Phonology, ed. by David Prager Branner. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006, pp. 233-254.)
  1992 Modern Chinese Prose. Edited by Marvin M.K. Li. Taipei: Pyramid Press, 1992. Simmons provided all the translations for this collection of ten short stories.
 

Textbooks
  1990 Richard VanNess Simmons, Marvin M.K. Li. Chinese-English Translation -- Intermediate. Taipei: Pyramid Press, 1990.
  1990 Richard VanNess Simmons, Marvin M.K. Li, and James Anderson. Writing--Intermediate. Taipei: Pyramid Press, 1990.
 

Works in Progress
  2010 English translation of Gu Qian 顾黔 2001. Research in the Phonology of the Tong-Tai Dialects 通泰方言音韵研究. (Original Chinese monograph was published by Nanjing University Press 南京大学出版社.)
  2010 Syllabary of Common Dialectal Chinese 汉语方言通音字表. This will be a monograph length syllabary and analysis of the phonological system developed by Jerry Norman, that provides an outline of an earlier historical stage of the Chinese dialects and detailed presentation of their overlapping influences and relationships.
  2010 Wu Dialect Grammar. With Shi Rujie. Commissioned by Lincom-Europa.
  1993 Jin Ping Mei cihui suoyin [An Annotated Glossary to Jin Ping Mei]. With Zhang Huiying of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Linguistics, Beijing. Simmons provided English annotations for each entry in this manuscript, an exhaustive treatment of the language of Jin Ping Mei [The Plum in the Golden Vase], a 17th century Chinese novel.
 

Scholarship Other
  2008 Editorial Board for the Linguistic Atlas of Chinese Dialects 汉语方言地图集 (2001-2008). Cao Zhiyun 曹志耘, chief editor. Beijing: The Commercial Press, published in November 2008. Contains 510 maps in three 17" x 13" volumes: Phonetics, Lexicon, Grammar. Based on surveys of 930 sites throughout greater China where Hàn dialects are spoken.
 

Overseas Study and Research
  2006 Dialect Fieldwork in China and Taiwan for the Linguistic Atlas of Chinese Dialects 汉语方言地图集, 2005-2006.
  2004 Dialect Fieldwork in China for the project entitled "Investigation of the Boundary between Wu and Jiang-Huai Dialects," 1999-2004.
  1996 Dialect fieldwork focusing on Mandarin and Wu dialects in the Yangtze Valley region of China, under the auspices of the National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China of the Committee on Scholarly Communication with China and in affiliation with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, Summers 1995 and 1996.
  1991 Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama, September 1990-June 1991.
  1990 Center For Chinese Studies, National Central Library, Taipei, as a translator, November 1989-June 1990.
  1989 Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Linguistics, Beijing, as a researcher in Chinese dialectology and language history, August 1988-June 1989.
  1983 National Taiwan University, Taipei, as a regularly enrolled student in the Department of Chinese, September 1982-June 1983.
  1983 Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei, September 1981-June 1983.
  1980 Intensive Chinese in Beijing at Peking University, Summer 1980, offered jointly by the Council on International Educational Exchange and the University of Washington.

Funding

Internally-Funded Research and/or Training Grants
  1997 Undergraduate Curriculum Seed Grant for a project entitled "Integrating Computerized Audio-Visual Language Resources into the East Asian Language Distance Learning Curriculum (Chinese)." With Ching-I Tu. Awarded by the Vice President for Undergraduate Education in New Brunswick for January-June 1997. (Grant amount unavailable.)
  1998 (Grant Amount: $4,000) The Rutgers Research Council publication subvention for the project Monograph: Issues in Chinese Dialect Description and Classification, to publish a collection of papers edited by Simmons. (Declined.), Richard V. Simmons
 

Externally-Funded Research and/or Training Grants
  07/2007-08/2010 (Grant Amount: $400,000) Chinese on the Rise: A Collaborative Proposal For Coordinated Initiatives to Enhance and Expand The Training of K-12 Chinese Language Teachers Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Funded by a grant from the Freeman Foundation. [Simmons was 60% responsible for the writing of the grant proposal and had 20% responsibility for supervising and organizing the activities of the grant. Ching-I Tu and Mary Curran were co-PIs on the project.], Richard V. Simmons, Mary Curran, Ching-I Tu, Marion Yudow
  1999-2005 (Grant Amount: $81,000) The Henry Luce Foundation U.S. China Cooperative Research Program grant to support a project entitled Investigation of the Boundary between Wu and Jiang-Huai Dialects. Simmons was the principal investigator (Director) for this cooperative project, and worked with Dr. Gu Qian of Nanjing University, Co-Director in China, Dr. Zhiqiang Yu of Baruch College (CUNY), and Professor Shi Rujie of Suzhou University. The project investigated, analyzed, and classified Mandarin and Wu dialects in the villages and countryside of the Yangtze valley region of China. The original funding period was 1999-2001. A two year extension was granted for 2002-2003 and renewed for 2004-2005., Richard V. Simmons
  1998 (Grant Amount: $4,000) Chiang Ching-kuo Scholarly Publications Grant for the project Monograph: Issues in Chinese Dialect Description and Classification, to publish a collection of papers edited by Simmons., Richard V. Simmons

Honors and Awards

Professional Awards and Honors
  2007 Travel Grant from Academia Sinica in Taiwan to attend the International Symposium on Microscopic Views of Language Distribution (語言微觀分佈國際研討會), hosted by the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, sponsored by the Linguistic Society of Taiwan, September 28-29, 2007.
  2007 Travel Grant from the International Institute for Asian Studies to attend the 5th International Urban Language Seminar on "Industrialization, Language Contact, and Identity Formation in China and Europe", at Leiden University, the Netherlands, July 9-11, 2007. I also served as advising faculty during sessions of a Master Class that was held in conjunction with this seminar.
  2006 Awarded a Travel Grant from Yuan Ze University in Taiwan to attend the Conference & Workshop on Sociolinguistics and Functional Linguistics jointly held by Yuan Ze University and Chung-hsing University in Taiwan, in Chung-li and Tai-chung. November 5-7, 2006.
  2005 Appointed Researcher in Chinese Linguistics by Special Appointment at the newly established Y.R. Chao Center in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, beginning Fall 2005.
  2005 Received the Jiangsu Friendship Award in recognition of research cooperation with Nanjing University and scholarly contributions to the Province of Jiangsu. Conferred in Spetember 2005 by the provincial government in acknowledgment of cooperative work with colleagues at Nanjing University in researching and mapping the dialects of the province, for contributions to the training and guidance of Nanjing University graduate students in linguistic research and fieldwork, and for publications and academic presentations on the subject of the provincial dialects.
  1999 1999 Award for Outstanding Results in an Invitation of Foreign Experts, conferred by the Nanjing University Committee for Appraisal of International Cooperative Programs.
  1996 American Council of Learned Societies travel grant to attend the Fourth International Symposium on Languages and Linguistics: Pan-Asiatic Linguistics, in Bangkok, Thailand, January 8-10, 1996 (funded by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences).
  1993 Middlebury College Faculty Professional Development Grant, Spring 1993.
  1991 Full tuition award, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama, September 1990-June 1991.
  1986 Tatsumi Award, Department of Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington, April 1986.
  1984 Chester Fritz Tuition Award, University of Washington, September 1983-June 1984 (declined).
  1983 Republic of China Ministry of Education Grant for study at National Taiwan University, September 1982-June 1983.
  1982 Full tuition award, Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei, September 1981-August 1982.
  1981 Chester Fritz Tuition Award, University of Washington, Winter and Spring 1980 and academic year 1980-81.
  1980 Full scholarship for Intensive Chinese in Beijing (CIEE Program) awarded by the School of International Studies, University of Washington, Summer 1980.
  1980 Honors Committee Certificate for High Scholarship, University of Washington, 1979-80.
  1979 Honor Roll of Phi Kappa Phi, 1979.
  1979 University of New Mexico College Honor Roll, 1978-79.
 

Fellowships
  Taiwan Studies Faculty Research Award program for Americans, sponsored by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan. Short-term fellowship for two weeks of research in Taiwan, December 2005. Grant was administered by the Cultural Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office. Project title: "Local Variations and Trends in Spoken Mandarin." Award Amount: $3266.00
  Lilly Endowment Inc. Teaching Fellowship for the academic year 1996-97. Awarded by the Teaching Excellence Center of Rutgers University. Project title: "A Multimedia Approach to Teaching Elementary Chinese."
  Committee on Scholarly Communication with China six-month research fellowship under the 1995-96 National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China for research done in affiliation with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. Award amount of $15,150 was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Research under this fellowship focused on Mandarin and Wu dialects in the Yangtze valley region of China, and was done in the Summers of 1995 and 1996.
  Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program twelve month fellowship for research in China with the Beijing Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, academic year 1988-89, and in Japan at Waseda University, Summer 1989.
  Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China senior advanced research fellowship awarded by the National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China under the National Academy of Sciences, academic year 1988-89.
  Hsiao Kung-chüan Fellowship, China Program, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, academic year 1987-88.
  National Resource Fellowship (FLAS), University of Washington, Summer 1984 and academic years 1984-85, 1985-86, 1986-87, and 1987-88 (final year declined).

Conference Presentations, Lectures, Demonstrations

Keynote or Plenary Addresses
  2010 "Exploring Geographical Variation and Historical Change in the Northern Wú Dialects 北部吴语的地理与长江流域历史和地理的演变." Presented by invitation at The First International Conference on Chinese Geolinguistics 首届中国地理语言学国际学术研讨会 (CGL-1) hosted by Beijing Languages and Cultures University 北京语言大学, November 21-22, 2010.
  2006 "Using Lexical Surveys to Outline a Dialect's Phonology 怎麼樣通過詞彙調查方言音系." Presented by invitation at the Conference & Workshop on Sociolinguistics and Functional Linguistics jointly held by Yuan Ze University and Chung-hsing University in Taiwan, in Chung-li and Tai-chung (「社會語言學與功能語言學」研討會元智大學中國語文學系、新竹教育大學語文學系 舉辦), November 5-7, 2006.
 

Invited Addresses
  2009 "Two Generations of a Jìngjiāng Village Dialect." Presented by invitation at Stony Brook University's Department of Asian and Asian American Studies Colloquium Series, March 24, 2009.
  2008 "Research on the Chinese Language in the U.S. 美国的汉语研究" Presented by invitation at the Changzhou Institute of Technology 常州工学院, Changzhou, China, June 24, 2008.
  2006 "Competition among Dialects and Prestige Languages 方言與優勢語言的競爭." Presented by invitation at the Conference & Workshop on Sociolinguistics and Functional Linguistics jointly held by Yuan Ze University and Chung-hsing University in Taiwan, in Chung-li and Tai-chung (「社會語言學與功能語言學」研討會元智大學中國語文學系、新竹教育大學語文學系 舉辦), November 5-7, 2006.
  2004 "Phonological and Lexical Isoglosses in Danyang." Given as invited speaker to the Second Annual Symposium on the Study of Urban Languages at the First Anniversary Celebration of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory of Nanjing University, Nanjing University, June 15, 2004.
 

Papers, Abstracts, and Lectures
  2011 "Dialect and Local Idiom in Dōngběi Èrrénzhuàn 东北二人转." Presented at the 2011 meeting of the American Oriental Society, Western Branch, in Santa Barbara, California, October 14-15, 2011.
  2011 "Chinese Dialect Islands." Read at the 221st Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Chicago, Illinois, March 11-14, 2011.
  2010 "Effectively Representing Tone in Romanization of Taiwanese and the Shànghǎi Dialects." Presented at the 8th International Symposium on Taiwanese Languages and Teaching 第八屆臺灣語言及其教學國際學術研討會 hosted by National United University 國立聯合大學, Miaoli, Taiwan, October 15-16, 2011.
  2010 "Tone as an Areal Feature and a Classificatory Criterion in Chinese Dialects." Given at the Workshop On Chinese Dialects, Phonology, and Lexicography, hosted by the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Rutgers University, May 1, 2010.
  2010 "Recent Developments and Findings in the Study of Dialects in China." With Xiaodong Huang. Presented at the 55th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association, in cooperation with the American Dialect Society (Northeast Region), at the State University of New York at New Paltz, April 15-17, 2010.
  2010 "More on the Shànghǎi Dialect: thrashing out a grammar that works for learners." Presented at The 220th Meeting of the American Oriental Society, St. Louis, Missouri, March 12-15, 2010.
  2009 "Mixed Mandarin & Wú—The Formation of the Dialect of Jìngjiāng Island." Given at the 6th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics, hosted by the Institute of Linguistics at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, August 26-28, 2009.
  2009 "Romanizations of the Shànghǎi Dialect—What Works for Learners?" Read at the 219th Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 11-15, 2009
  2008 "A Core Sample of a Dialect Transition Zone in the Lower Yangtze Watershed." Given at the 2008 meeting of The American Oriental Society, Western Branch, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, October 24-25, 2008.
  2008 "The Jìngjiāng 靖江 Dialect Across Time." Read at the 6th Urban Language Seminar, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, July 10-13, 2008.
  2008 "Two Generations of a Jìngjiāng Village Dialect." Presented at the 218th Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Chicago, Illinois, March 14-17, 2008.
  2007 "The Jeasheh 假摄 Vowel Shift: Comparing Common Northern Wu and Common Southern Jiang-Hwai with Common Dialectal Chinese—Using Vowel and Final Contrasts to Characterize and Identify Dialect Affiliation." Given at the 2007 meeting of the American Oriental Society, Western Branch, hosted by the University of California, Irvine, October 12-13 2007.
  2007 "Experiences And Lessons Learned In Village-To-Village Surveys In Jiāngsū 江蘇農村方言調查研究﹣﹣經歷和評估." Presented at the International Symposium on Microscopic Views of Language Distribution 語言微觀分佈國際研討會 hosted by the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, September 28-29, 2007
  2007 "Jerry Norman's Common Dialectal Chinese -- A Tool for Exploring Dialect Relationships 罗杰瑞的汉语方言共同音系 － '汉语方言通音'研究." Given at the 3rd International Conference on Jin Dialects 第三届晋方言国际学术研讨会, Taiyuan, Shanxi 山西太原, China, August 11-12, 2007.
  2007 "Measuring Lexical Competition in the Four Contending Dialect Types of Jiītán County." Read at the 5th International Urban Language Seminar on the topic of Industrialization, Language Contact, and Identity Formation in China and Europe, Leiden University, the Netherlands, 9-11 July, 2007.
  2006 "Problems and Discoveries in Fleshing Out Jerry Norman's Common Dialectal Chinese." Presented at the 216th Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Seattle, March 17-20, 2006.
  2005 "Dialect Vocabulary in Mandarin." Presented at the 2005 meeting of the WBAOS (American Oriental Society, Western Branch) at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, November 4-6, 2005.
  2005 "Shared Dialect Vocabulary at the Border of Mandarin and Wu in Jiangsu." Presented at the 13th National (China) Conference on Dialectology in conjunction with the International Conference on Chinese Dialect Research at Suzhou University, China, September 23-25, 2005.
  2005 "Choosing Language And Identity: Competition Between Mandarin & Wú in Jīntán County and the Shift of the Dominant Patois in the County Seat." Given at the 3rd Urban Language Survey Seminar (ULS-2005) at Nanjing University, China, June 25-26, 2005.
  2005 "Ancient Elements in the Recent Evolution of the Chinese Script." Presented to the Plenary Session (Topic: "Scripts and Writing") of the 215th Meeting of the American Oriental Society in Philadelphia, March 18-21, 2005.
  2005 "The Delights of Dialect Fieldwork: Discoveries Made at a Taixing Memorial to a Hero of the Korean War." Presented at the 215th Meeting of the American Oriental Society in Philadelphia, March 18-21, 2005.
  2004 "Mandarin Dialect Islands in Jintarn County, Jiangsu, China." Given at the 37th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, University of Lund, Sweden, October 1-3, 2004.
  2004 "The Geographic Range of the Nantong-Tongjou Vowel Shift." Presented at the12th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, June 17-21, 2004.
  2004 "Seeking Tone Isoglosses in Danyang and Neighboring Counties in Jiangsu, China." Presented at the 214th Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society, San Diego, California, March 12-15, 2004.
  2003 "Do Mandarin and Wu Isoglosses Cross the Yangtze?" Presented at the 2003 meeting of the American Oriental Society, Western Branch, University of California, Berkeley, October 10-12, 2003.
  2003 "Mapping Dialect Mixture in Tongjou and Lihshoei Counties - How Dialect Geography Reveals Language History." Presented at the meeting of the Yuen Ren Society held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society in Nashville, Tennessee, April 4-7, 2003.
  2002 "Common Southern Jiang-Hwai Mandarin." Given at the 35th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics held at Arizona State University, November 7-10, 2002.
  2002 "Northern and Southern Lexicon in Danyang and Dantu." Presented at the First International Conference on Chinese Sociolinguistics, organized by Beijing Languages and Cultures University, Beijing, China, September 6-9, 2002.
  2002 "Distinguishing Aerial and Classificatory Features in Chinese Dialect Field Research." Given at the 11th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, held at Aichi Prefectural University, Nagoya, Japan, August 20-22, 2002.
  2001 "An Unusual Mandarin Dialect -- The Village of Shoetair in Dantwu County, Jiangsu Province." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Branch of the American Oriental Society, hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles, October 12-14, 2001.
  2001 "Questions of History and Diversity in the Classification of Wu and Mandarin Dialects." Given at the Second International Conference on Wu Dialects hosted by Suzhou University, Suzhou, China, March 23-26, 2001.
  2000 "A How Local is Local -- Thoughts on the Hidden Influence of the Prestige Vernacular in Minor Locales." Presented at the annual meeting of the American Oriental Society, Western Branch, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, November 16-19, 2000.
  2000 "What Kind of 'History of Chinese' Are We Trying to Recover?" Presented at the Symposium on the History of Spoken Chinese. Held in conjunction with the 210th meeting of the American Oriental Society in Portland, Oregon, March 12-15, 2000.
  1999 "Report on the Project to Investigate the Boundary between Wu and Jiang-Hwai Dialects." Presented at the 32nd International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 28-31, 1999.
  1999 "A Late Ching Wu Dialect Writing System," Conference on the Past, Present, and Future of Chinese Characters at the University of Pennsylvania, April 30-May 2, 1999, with Shi Rujie of Suzhou University.
  1999 "A Comparative Model for the Classification of Wu Dialects," Annual Conference of the Yuen Ren Society for the Promotion of Chinese Dialect Fieldwork, Rutgers University, March 6, 1999.
  1999 "The Biggest Picture in the Shortest Time -- Y. R. Chao's Approach to Fieldwork," North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles, January 8-9, 1999.
  1998 "Doing Fieldwork with an Eye on the Common Dialect Phonology -- Y. R. Chao's Methodology as Revealed in His Harngjou Field Notes." Presented at the International Symposium on Linguistic Change and the Chinese Dialects Dedicated to the Memory of the Late Professor Li Fang-kuei at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, August 17-19, 1998.
  1998 "How Rime Book Based Analyses Can Lead Us Astray." Presented at the symposium on Chinese historical phonology entitled "New Views of the Philosophy Underlying the Chinese Rime Tables," held at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2, 1998.
  1998 "Development of Multimedia Chinese Courseware." Discussed at the conference on Chinese Language Instruction: Materials and Pedagogy, at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, April 25, 1998.
  1998 "Jintarn, a Town of Two Dialects." Read at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Washington D.C., March 26-29, 1998.
  1998 "Old Jintarn-Danyang Affiliation: Their Common System and Correlation with Common Northern Wu." Presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Yuen Ren Society for the Promotion of Chinese Dialect Fieldwork, Seattle, Washington, February 7, 1998.
  1997 "Comparing the Nantong and Harngjou Dialects with Wu." Presented at the First International Conference on Mandarin Dialects, jointly sponsored by Shandong University and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Qingdao, China, July 22-24, 1997.
  1997 "The Mixed Nature of Gauchwen Affiliation." Delivered at the University of Pennsylvania Conference on the Local Languages and Local Cultures of China, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 27, 1997.
  1997 "A Gauchwen Village Dialect: Chyanshiyau tsuen." Discussed at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Yuen Ren Society for the Promotion of Chinese Dialect Fieldwork, Seattle, Washington, March 24, 1997.
  1996 "A Comparative Sample of the Dialects of Southern Jiangsu and Northern Jehjiang." Presented at the Institute of Linguistics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, August 8, 1996.
  1996 "On Chinese Dialect Classification." Delivered at the 206th Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 17-20, 1996.
  1996 "A Dialect of the Harngjou Suburbs -- a Vocabulary for Jiangjiatarng." Discussed at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Yuen Ren Society for the Promotion of Chinese Dialect Fieldwork, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 17, 1996.
  1996 "The Grey Area Between Mandarin and Wu Dialects: A Report on the Preliminary Mandarin-Wu Classification." Read at the Fourth International Symposium on Languages and Linguistics: Pan-Asiatic Linguistics, in Bangkok, Thailand, January 8-10, 1996.
  1995 "The Dialect of Longjiing (Uengjiashan) and the Grey Area Between Mandarin and Wu Dialects." Presented at the 28th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics in Charlottesville, Virginia, October 6-10, 1995.
  1995 "A Recording of the Story and Song of a Venerable Harngjou Raconteur." Discussed at the Meeting of the Yuen Ren Society for the Promotion of Chinese Dialect Fieldwork., Salt Lake City, Utah, March 27, 1995; and at the annual meeting of the Conference on Chinese Oral and Performing Literature in Washington, D.C., April 6, 1995.
  1995 "A Review of the Vocabulary and Usage of the Tôwa sanyô: The Nature of the Guanhuah Studied by Japanese in the Early Eighteenth Century." Delivered at the 205th Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 26-29, 1995.
  1994 "Field Criteria for Wu and Mandarin Taxonomy: Test Cases in Jehjiang." Presented at the 27th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics in Paris, France, October 12-16, 1994.
  1994 "A Note on the Oral Transmission of a Late Nineteenth Century Harngjou Lyric." Discussed at the annual meeting of the Conference on Chinese Oral and Performing Literature in Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 24, 1994.
  1993 "The Phonology of the Tôwa sanyô in Comparative Perspective." Given at the 203rd meeting of the American Oriental Society in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, April 18-21, 1993.
  1992 "The Classification of the Hangzhou Dialect." Discussed at a colloquium sponsored by the Yuen Ren Society at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, May 6, 1992.
  1991 "An Early Missionary Syllabary for the Hangzhou Dialect." Presented at the 1991 annual meeting of the Western Branch of the American Oriental Society held at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, October 25-27, 1991.
  1991 "Hangzhou Storytellers: Reflections of the Past and Present in a Continuing Tradition." Delivered at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, New Orleans, April 11-14, 1991.
  1990 "Northern and Southern Forms in Hangzhou Grammar." Presented at the First International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics held at the Academia Sinica Institute of History and Philology, Taipei, Taiwan, July 20-22, 1990.
  1990 "A Preliminary Outline of Hangzhou Phonology." Discussed at a conference on Chinese dialects hosted by Ray Iwata at Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan, August 2-3, 1989.
  1988 "Distinguishing Features of the Hangzhou Dialect." Presented at the International Conference on Wu Dialects held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, December 12-14, 1988.
  1988 "Reflections of the Colloquial Language in the Writing of Han Yu (768-824)." Given at a colloquium on late traditional Chinese at the Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China, October 11, 1988.

Organizing and Chairing Activities

Participation in Organizing or Chairing Conferences, Workshops, and Organizations
  05/2011 Co-chair of the Chinese Language Teachers Association of Greater New York's (CLTA-GNY) 9th New York International Conference on Teaching Chinese, held at Rutgers University and jointly-hosted by the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and the Rutgers University Confucius Institute. (Co-chaired with Shuming Lu of Brooklyn College.)
  04/2011 Co-chair of the 56th annual conference of the International Linguistic Association (ILA), held at Rutgers University and jointly-hosted by the departments of Asian Languages and Cultures, AMESALL, and Spanish & Portuguese. (Co-chaired with with David Prager Branner, Grove School of Engineering, City College of New York.)
  05/2010 Workshop On Chinese Dialects, Phonology, and Lexicography, hosted by the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Rutgers University, May 1, 2010.
  10/2008 Panel on "Teaching Asian Languages and Cultures to Learners from Heritage Backgrounds," organized for the Teaching Asia Workshop: Teaching Asia Legacies of the annual meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies, held at Rutgers University, October 24, 2008.
  05/2004 Conference Chair, the 3rd Annual Conference of the Chinese Language Teachers Association of Greater New York, at Rutgers University, May 1, 2004
  11/2002 Panel on "Chinese Dialects and Their History," held at the International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics at Arizona State University, Nov. 7-10, 2002.
  03/2000 Symposium on the History of Spoken Chinese. Held in conjunction with the 210th meeting of the American Oriental Society in Portland, Oregon, March 12-15, 2000. Jointly organized with David P. Branner.
  03/1999 5th Annual Meeting of the Yuen Ren Society for the Promotion of Chinese Dialect Fieldwork. March 6, 1999 at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Jointly organized with David P. Branner.
  03/1998 Panel on "Local Language in Local Chinese Culture," held at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Washington D.C., March 26-29, 1998, ten participants. Jointly organized with David P. Branner.
  03/1996 Panel on Chinese Dialect Description, Comparison, and Classification, held at the 206th annual meeting of the American Oriental Society in Philadelphia, March 17-20, 1996, ten participants.
  03/1995 Panel on the History of Mandarin, held at the 205th annual meeting of the American Oriental Society in Salt Lake City, March 26-29, 1995, four participants.

Editorial Activities

Membership on Editorial Boards of Scholarly or Professional Journals
  2010-ongoing Review Referee, Language and Linguistics.
  2010-ongoing Review Referee, Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics.
  2000-ongoing Review Referee, The Modern Langauge Journal.
  1995-ongoing Review Referee, Yuen Ren Society Treasury of Chinese Dialect Data.

Teaching Activities

Instructional Development
  07/2010-07/2010 Taught a master class on “Linguistic Issues in Chinese Language Teaching” on July 23, 2010 at the Jilin University Summer Chinese Pedagogy Workshop (in Changchun, Jilin Province, China) to train Chinese language teachers who are being sent to teach Chinese at Confucius Institutes throughout the world, including those coming to the Confucius Institute at Rutgers University. Over 300 teachers from all over China attended the half-day master class (taught in Chinese).
  07/2009-07/2009 Taught a master class on “Cultural and Linguistic Issues in Chinese Language Teaching” on July 24, 2009 at the Jilin University Summer Chinese Pedagogy Workshop (in Changchun, Jilin Province, China) to train Chinese language teachers who are being sent to teach Chinese at Confucius Institutes throughout the world, including those coming to the Confucius Institute at Rutgers University. Over 400 teachers from all over China attended the half-day master class (taught in Chinese).
 

Courses Taught
  Elementary Chinese Conversation (01:165:103), Rutgers University, Winter 2006
  Characteristics of the Chinese Language (01:165:210), Rutgers University, Fall 1994, Fall 1995, Fall 1996, Fall 1998, Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011
  Elementary Chinese (01:165:101-102), Rutgers University, 1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-01, 2001-02, Spring 2003, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, Fall 2007
  Chinese Literature in Translation I: Prose and Poetry (01:165:241), Rutgers University, Fall 1994
  Chinese Literature in Translation II: Popular Fiction and Drama (01:165:242), Rutgers University, Spring 1994, Spring 1995, Spring 1996
  Chinese Drama and Performing Arts (01:165:264), Rutgers University, Spring 1998, Spring 1999
  Introduction to Literary Chinese (01:165:321), Rutgers University, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011
  Introduction to Literary Chinese II (01:165:322), Rutgers University, Spring 2011
  The Chinese Novel (01:165:410), Rutgers University, Spring 2000, Spring 2002
  Chinese Dialects (01:165:425) Rutgers University, Spring 2002, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2011
  Advanced Chinese Grammar (01:165:430), Rutgers University, Fall 1997, Fall 1999, Spring 2001, Fall 2005, Summer 2009, Summer 2010, Summer 2011
  Advanced Topics In Chinese Languages And Linguistics (16:165:504), Rutgers University, Summer 2008, Summer 2010, Summer 2011
  Third-year Chinese, Middlebury College, September 1992-May 1993
  Chinese Classical Literature in Translation, Middlebury College, January-May 1993
  The Chinese Storytelling Tradition, Middlebury College, January 1993
  Traditional Chinese Fiction in Translation, Middlebury College, September-December 1992
  First-year Intensive Chinese, University of Washington, June-August 1992
  Third-year Chinese, University of Washington, April-June 1992
  Second-year Classical Chinese, University of Washington, September 1991-March 1992
  Second-year Intensive Chinese, University of Washington, June-August 1987
  Third-year Chinese, University of Washington, April-June 1987
  Third-year Intensive Chinese, University of Washington, June-August 1986
  Second-year Intensive Chinese, University of Washington, June-August 1985
  First-year Chinese, University of Washington, September 1983-June 1984
 

Special Courses Taught
  Byrne First-year Seminar (01:090:101), "The Emerging Dragon--Contemporary Western Perspectives on China." Rutgers University, Fall 2008, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011
  Rutgers Summer Study Abroad Program in China, Summers 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
  Distance Learning course in Elementary Chinese (Chinese 101-102) taught jointly in the Interactive Television Rooms of Rutgers' New Brunswick and Newark campuses, 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-01, 2001-02, Spring 2003, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, Fall 2007
 

Curricular Development - Courses and Programs Developed
  01/2010-05/2010 Developed and proposed new course: Guided Research in China (01:165:393).
  01/2009-05/2009 Developed and proposed new course: Basic Spoken Chinese (01:165:107-108).
  09/2008-08/2009 Coordinated the relocation of the Rutgers Summer Study Abroad Program from Nanjing University to Jilin University.
  01/2008-05/2008 Developed new course for MAT in Chinese: Advanced Topics in Chinese Language and Linguistics (16:165:504).
  01/2005-05/2005 Developed and implemented revision of course from 300 to 400 level: Advanced Chinese Grammar (01:165:325 to 01:165:430).
  01/2002-05/2002 Developed and proposed new course: Intensive Reading and Writing in Chinese II (01:165:222).
  01/2002-05/2002 Developed and proposed new course: Advanced Chinese Conversation and Composition (01:165:402).
  09/2001-05/2002 Developed and initiated the Rutgers Summer Study Abroad Program in China, including the development, proposal, and implementation of two new courses for the program: Intermediate Chinese in China (01:165:205) and Advanced Chinese in China (01:165:305).
  07/1997-05/2000 Assistant Director of the East Asian Languages and Cultures project on "Development of Multimedia courseware for Classroom and Distance Learning Curriculum." Supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
  09/1997-ongoing Director of the pilot Distance Learning course in Elementary Chinese (Chinese 101-102) taught jointly in the Interactive Television Rooms of Rutgers' New Brunswick and Newark campuses.
  01/1997-06/1997 Undergraduate Curriculum Seed Grant for a project entitled "Integrating Computerized Audio-Visual Language Resources into the East Asian Language Distance Learning Curriculum (Chinese)," awarded by the Vice President for Undergraduate Education in New Brunswick.
  09/1996-05/1997 Development of a new First-Year Chinese language course which integrates multimedia and computerized audio-visual language resources into the curriculum.

Students Supervised

Postdoctoral Trainees
  2010 Xiaodong Huang, studied under me in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Rutgers University, supported by a post-doctoral grant from the China Scholarship Council of the PRC, from 11/09 to 11/10. 
  2009 Youhai Wang, studied under me in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Rutgers University, supported by a post-doctoral grant from the China Scholarship Council of the PRC, from 03/09 to 03/10.
 

Academic Advisement
  2001 Ongoing. Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Rutgers University. Typically over 100 advisees per year.
 

Students Supervised for Independent Studies
  2010 UG: Supervised Michael Opper in Paul Robeson Interdisciplinary Honors Thesis, with Paul de Lacy (academic year '09-'10). Topic of thesis: "Aspects of the Morpho-phonology and Typology of Taiwan Hakka Dialects." This thesis, based on fieldwork done in Taiwan, was awarded a Henry Rutgers Scholar Award, the highest honor for an undergraduate thesis. Mr. Opper, who double-majored in Chinese and linguistics, also received the Robert Jeffers Prize, which is awarded to the Rutgers senior who has made the most outstanding contribution to the academic life of the Linguistics Department.
  2010 UG: Supervised Youyou Ruan as Aresty Research Assistant (academic year '09-'10). Topic of project: "Translation of Tong-Tai fangyan yanjiu [Study of the Tong-Tai Dialects] by Gu Qian.
  2010 UG: Supervised Nian Zhou as Aresty Research Assistant (academic year '09-'10). Topic of project: "Translation of Tang shi yu yan yan jiu [Study of Tang poetic language] by Jiang Shaoyu."
  2008 UG: Supervised Adrian Pacia in Senior Honors Project (academic year '07-'08). Topic of thesis: "Confucianism in Ming Dynasty Government."
  2007 UG: Supervised Daniel Upbin in Independent Study (Spring '07). Topic: "Literacy and the Chinese Writing System in the PRC."
  2004 UG: Supervised Brendon Schumacker in Independent Study (Spring '04). Topic: "The Evolution of Chinese Characters."
  2001 UG: Supervised Hana Kang in Senior Honors Project (academic year '00-'01). Topic of thesis: "Comparison of initial and final endings in Sino-Korean, Mandarin, and Cantonese." Published in The Rutgers Scholar, Volume 3, 2001.
  2000 UG: Supervised Cesaer Brazza in Independent Study (Fall '00). Topic: "The Cantonese Dialect."
  2000 UG: Supervised Susan Hsueh in Independent Study (Fall '00). Topic: "Regional Factionalism in the Chinese Economy."
  2000 UG: Supervised Debbie Botha in Independent Study (Spring '00). Topic: "Understanding the Economic Developments in China after the Cultural Revolution."
  1999 UG: Supervised Peter Yuen in Independent Study (Fall '99). Topic: "The Rape of Nanking."
  1998 UG: Supervised Maya N. Vaughan-Smith in Senior Honors Project (academic year '97-98). Topic of thesis: "Censorship of Female Sexuality: Comparison of English and Chinese Literature."
  1996 UG: Supervised Maya N. Vaughan-Smith in Independent Study (Fall '96). Topic: "The Sexual Revolution of Women in Chinese Literature."
  1995 UG: Supervised David Yao-Tsung Tsai in Independent Study (Spring '95). Topic: "Contemporary Taiwanese Realism in Literature."
  1994 UG: Supervised Jessica Lee in Independent Study (Spring '94). Topic: "Buddhist Cave Temple Art" (in Six Dynasties through Tang China).
 

Master's or Doctoral Students by Type of Supervision
  2009 Doctoral - Committee: EdD Dissertation committee member, for Youping Zhang, Graduate School of Education. Dissertation titled "Integrating CALL Writing Activities into a College Level Elementary Chinese Class," defended in December 2008.
  2007 Master's - Committee: Served as visiting professor on the thesis defense committees for 6 graduate students in the Chinese Department of Nanjing University, May 2007.
  2010 Master's - Committee: MAT in Chinese Teaching Portfolio Committee member, for Ming E. Ho, defended in March 2010.

Service

Service to New Jersey State Government
  2009-2010 Appointed by Governor Corzine to the Asian American Study Foundation – Board of Trustees.
 

Service to Other Public Bodies
  1998-2000 Vice Principal, Mid Jersey Tzu-Chi Academy, Edison, NJ
  10/2006-03/2010 Invited judge, Chinese Cultural Contest, sponsored by the New Jersey Chinese Cultural Studies Foundation, at Seton Hall University, October 2006, March 2008, March 2009, March 2010
  06/1998 Interpreter for the mayor of Edison Township during visit of a Chinese delegation
  1995-1997 Saturday morning conversation tutor, Central Jersey Chinese School
  10/1994 Speaker: "Doing Business in Modern China," at the Prudential, Newark, NJ
  12/1993 Impromptu interpreter for Healthnet Medical Group
  1984-1985 Senator to the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, University of Washington
  1984-1985 Student Representative, Department of Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington
 

Service to Rutgers University
  2010 Rutgers East Asian Languages and Cultures Korean Search Committees
  2009-2010 Conceived, developed, and organized the Asian Languages and Culture's Rutgers Day event: "Your Name Here in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean"
  2009-ongoing SAS ad hoc Chinese Studies Program Committee, Spring 2009, and the SAS Committee on Chinese Studies
  2009-ongoing Advisor to the Chinese Conversation Club
  2008 Rutgers East Asian Languages and Cultures Chinese Search Committees
  2008-ongoing Foreign Languages Advisory Committee--advisory to the SAS Core Requirements Committee
  2008-ongoing Study Abroad East Asia Advisory Committee
  2008-ongoing Chair, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
  2009 Assist the Study Abroad Office with the implementation of a new Semester Abroad Program at Jilin University in Changchun, China, as well as the relocation of the Summer Chinese Language Program to Jilin University
  2007-ongoing Asian Languages and Cultures Representative to the School of Arts and Sciences Majors Fairs
  2007-2008 University Senate Representative for School of Arts and Sciences
  2001-2006 University Senate Representative for the Livingston College Executive Council of Fellows
  2001-ongoing Departmental Digiclass coordinator
  2001-2002 Rutgers Faculty of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee
  2000-2007 Fellow at Large, Livingston College Executive Council of Fellows
  2000-2008 Assistant to the Chair in East Asian Languages and Cultures. Responsibilities include: the undergraduate programs in Chinese and East Asian Studies, departmental computerization and data management, supervision and maintenance of the departmental website, publicity, liaison with individual colleges, curriculum and program planning, departmental projects on distance learning, multimedia instruction, grant proposal preparation
  2000-2004 Advisor, Tzu Ching Student Association
  2000 Rutgers East Asian Languages and Cultures Chinese, Japanese and Korean Search Committees
  1999-2000 Rutgers Faculty of Arts and Sciences Promotion and Reappointment Committee
  04/1998 Assisted in the demonstration of the Rutgers Interactive Television Classrooms in Newark and New Brunswick for a delegation from the Danish Ministry of Education.
  1998 East Asian Languages and Cultures Chinese Literature Search Committee
  1997-2000 Assistant Director of the East Asian Languages and Cultures project on "Development of Multimedia courseware for Classroom and Distance Learning Curriculum" supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education
  1997-ongoing Rutgers Language Institute Steering Committee
  1996 East Asian Languages and Cultures Korean Language Search Committee
  10/1995 Speaker: "Doing Research in China: My Experiences this Summer Doing Dialect Fieldwork in Nanjing and Hangzhou," for the Asian Studies Program of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
  1995-ongoing Advisor, Rutgers Cantonese Student Association
  1995-ongoing East Asian Languages-RUCS/FAS Departmental Computer Liaison
  1995-2002 Advisor, All Children's Charity Association (formerly Asian Children's Charity Association)
  1995-1996 Nominated: Successful candidate, Fatema Razvi, for 1995-96 scholarship from Women's League of Rutgers University
  09/1994 Speaker: "Learning Chinese," at East Asian House Douglass/Corwin Campus
  1994-2000 Rutgers College Cultural Affairs and Programs (CAP) Committee
  1993-ongoing Rutgers East Asian Library Faculty Advisory Committee
  1993-2007 Rutgers College Fellow
  1993-2007 Livingston College Fellow
  1993-2001 Advisor, Asian Student Volleyball Alliance
  1993-2007 East Asian Languages representative to Rutgers College Majors Fairs

Memberships

Membership/Offices Held in Scholarly and Professional Societies
  05/2002-ongoing Chinese Language Teachers Association of Greater New York, founding member, on Board of Directors since May 2002, vice-president 2006-2007, president 2008-2009.
  04/2002-ongoing Guest Member, Early China Seminar of Columbia University.
  09/2000-ongoing International Association for Chinese Linguistics, elected to Executive Board in 2006 for a 3 year term.
  09/1999-ongoing North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences.
  01/1994-ongoing Circle for Chinese Historical and Comparative Dialectology.
  09/1993-ongoing Conference on Chinese Oral and Performing Literature.
  09/1992-ongoing Chinese Language Teachers Association, on Board of Directors 2001 to 2003.
  09/1991-ongoing American Oriental Society.
  09/1991-ongoing Western Branch, American Oriental Society.
  09/1991-ongoing Yuen Ren Society for the Promotion of Chinese Dialect Fieldwork.
  06/1990-ongoing Hangzhou Pynghua Research Association (Harngjou pynghuah yanjiou huey) under the Association of Hangzhou Oral and Performing Artists (Harngjou chiuyihjia shyehuey) in Hangzhou, China, honorary member.
  09/1989-ongoing Association for Asian Studies.