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Faculty Affiliated with the Confucius Institute
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Dr.Tan Ye
is the Director of Confucius Institute, Director of Asian Studies, Chinese Program Director, and Full Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at USC.
Dr. Ye joined the University of South Carolina in 1992 after teaching at Washington University and Vassar College. His area of specialization is Chinese Theatre, Chinese cinema and comparative theater. He is an honorary member of the Kun Opera Society of Beijing and a visiting scholar at the National Academy of Chinese Theater Arts and Beijing Normal University.
Publications include the book, "Common Dramatic Codes in Yaun and Elizabethan Theaters" and "Traditional Theater: East Asia" in the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. He has written over 100 essays on Chinese theater and cinema.
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Jing Zhao
is the Associate Director of the Confucius Institute at the USC and the associate professor at the
Beijing Language and Culture University.
Publications include the book Intermediate Chinese Listening and Speaking, Chinese
Listening and Speaking Course, HSK Chinese Proficiency Test Simulation Exercise
Collection(Higher), HSK(At the beginning, Medium) Eight Levels of Fine Solutions, HSK
Strategies: Course Material (Elementary-Intermediate), HSK Strategies: Grammar Handbook
(Elementary-Intermediate), HSK Strategies:Vocabulary Handbook (Elementary-Intermediate).
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Wei Hu
is from the Beijing Language and Culture University. She is an instructor of the Confucius Institute and teaches Intermediate Chinese and Business Chinese in the Chinese Program. Her research areas involve international business and politics.
Translated books (English to Chinese): The Next Sustainability Wave, by China Social Sciences Press, Beijing, 2007; Greeniology, by Xinhua Publishing House, Beijing, 2008.
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Jie He
is an instructor at the Beijing Language and Culture University. Her research interests include mathematical linguistics and first language acquistion.
Publications include The Syntactic and Semantic Analysis of Adverb Jiu, The Third International
Conference on Formal Linguistics and the Second Yuelu Workshop on Language Acquisition, 2005 and Overpass, Flyover or Bridge, College English, 2007.
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Tianxu Chen
is an instructor at the Beijing Language and Culture University and teaches Intermediate Chinese.
His research interests include cognitive grammar and Learning Chinese as a Second Language.
He also received the Prize of Innovative Chinese Teaching at the 9th International Symposium of Chinese Teaching in 2008.
Publications include Chinese Movie Appreciation: Shower, Beijing: BLCU press, 2008: College Chinese: Listening and Speaking II, Beijing: BLCU press, 2009.
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Krista Van Fleit Hang
is an assistant professor of Chinese in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at USC, and is also an affiliate of the Women's and Gender Studies Program. Her areas of specialization include Twentieth Century Chinese Literature and Film, Communist Literature, and Gender Studies. Currently her main research project focuses on the creation of a system of people's literature in the Maoist period, with a spcial interest in exploring the ways in which members of the Maoist cultural establishment combined international theories of socialist realism with native Chinese Literary Tradition.
Recent Courses include: Imagining Modern China, Love and Revolution in Chinese Literature, Woman in China, Screening China: Cinema and the Nation, and intermediate Chinese language.
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Michael Gibbs Hill
is Assistant Professor of Chinese and core faculty member in the Program in Comparative Literature. His research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century Chinese literature, classical-language Chinese prose, comparative literature, translation studies, and the history of the book. He has published articles and translations in Twentieth-Century China, Dongya Renwen, and Gender and History,and is working on a book project on the famous translator Lin Shu (1852-1924) and his collaborators. Professor Hill teaches first-year Chinese and serves as the faculty coordinator for USC's first-year Chinese language program; he also teaches courses on modern Chinese literature, Chinese civilization, and comparative literature.
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Chinese Language Council International 
Beijing Language
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