Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor of Language and Writing at Duke Kunshan University
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2016 - Present
DKU Faculty
Senior Director of the Language and Culture Center (LCC) at Duke Kunshan University
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2022 - Present
DKU Faculty
Recent Publications
The language of Chaozhou songbooks
Journal Article Global Chinese · April 1, 2023 In the pre-modern era, women in the Chaoshan region of southeastern China had a tradition of learning and performing long narrative songs. From the mid-1800s into the mid-1900s these songs were widely produced by local publishing houses in inexpensive wood ... Full text CiteWritten Cantonese and Cantonese textbooks in mainland China
Chapter · January 1, 2023 This chapter investigates why Cantonese language textbooks published in the Chinese mainland make such liberal use of written Cantonese - i.e. Cantonese written in Chinese characters - despite the fact that in the mainland written Cantonese is rarely encou ... Full text CiteRomanizing Southern Mĭn: Missionaries and the promotion of written Chinese vernaculars
Chapter · October 7, 2020 This chapter analyzes the promotion of written vernaculars in southeastern China by Western missionaries during the late nineteenth century. For example, in the city of Xiamen, the missionaries' ideological support of vernacular literacy was translated int ... CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
Indiana University at Indianapolis ·
1991
Ph.D.
Michigan State University ·
1983
M.A.
College of Wooster ·
1977
B.A.