A graduate of the Chinese Department of Peking University, Yuehua Liu was Professor in Chinese at the Beijing Language and Culture University. In 1989, she continued her professional career in the United States and had taught Chinese at Wellesley College, MIT, and Harvard University for many years. Her research concentrated on modern Chinese grammar, especially grammar for teaching Chinese as a foreign language.
Her major publications include "Practical Modern Chinese Granmar" (co-author), "Comprehensive Studies of Chinese Directional Complements", and "Writings on Chinese Grammar" as well as the Chinese textbook series "Integrated Chinese" (chief editor) and the audio-video textbook set Learning Advanced Colloquial Chinese from TV (co-author). Ph.D., University of Hawaii. Chu is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Chinese Language Program at the University of California, Davis, where he also serves on the Executivc Board of the Second Language Acquisition Institute and is a member of the Graduate Faculty Group of Linguistics.
He is Vice President of the Chinese Language Teachers Association of California and a member of the editorial boards of the L2 Journal and several other scholarly periodicals. He taught at Stanford University and Beijing Language and Culture University for many years. He has published more than 20 articles on topics in Chinese linguistics, Chinese pedagogy, and cognitive semantics, and has a forthcoming book on motion conceptualisation and representation in Chinese.
He was PI of two major software projects in Chinese pedagogy and acquisition : "Chinese TA" and "the Corpus of Chinese Interlanguage". A graduate of the Chinese Department of Fudan University, a senior editor and member of the AII-China Writers Association and the Chinese Reportage Association, Dehua Yang is the editor of "Chinese", a standard-based experiment textbook series for first through ninth graders in China.
His literary works include short stories "Losing Weight" and "The Educated Youths Company", reportage "Narcotics Enforcentents : 100 Years in the World" (co-author), and translation of Milan Kundera' "Laughable Loves" (co-translator). He also puhlished many critical essays on Chinese literature.
