China

Hai-Long Wang

Hai-Long Wang

Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 501 Kent Hall
Office Hours: MTR 3:00-4:00, or by appointment.
Phone: (212) 854-5038
Email: hw21@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Linguistics and Anthropology, Columbia University
MA: Comparative Literature, Shanghai Normal University
BA: Chinese Language and Literature, Jiangsu Normal University

Classes Taught

CHNS UN1111 First Year Chinese W I
CHNS UN1112 First Year Chinese W II
CHNS UN3005 Third Year Chinese W I
CHNS UN3006 Third Year Chinese W II

Research Interests

Language for Specific Purposes
Chinese Syntax
Chinese Language Pedagogy

Hai-Long Wang has been teaching Mandarin Chinese at Columbia University since 1998. He has taught Elementary Chinese, Intermediate Chinese, Advanced Chinese, Reading in Modern Chinese and other subjects. He has authored several Chinese textbooks including Aspects of Modern China and Cultural Interpretations of China.

Publications

Aspects of Modern China《深入中國》 (Peking University Press, 2011)
Reading China Through the Newspaper Volume I,《報紙上的中國》 (Peking University Press, 2004)
Reading the World Through the Newspaper Volume II,《報紙上的天下》 (Peking University Press, 2004)
A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese (Simplified Characters Edition),《大學語文》 (Columbia University Press, 2004; Co-editor and author of four chapters)
A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese (Traditional CharactersEdition),《大學語文-繁體字》 (Columbia University Press, 2003; Co-editor and author of four chapters)
Cultural Interpretations of China: An Advanced Chinese Reader I, 《文化中國》 (Peking University Press, Beijing, 2002)
Getting Into Chinese Thought: An Advanced Chinese ReaderII,《解讀中國》 (Peking University Press, 2002)
Introduction to BusinessChinese Writing,《應用漢語讀寫教程》 (Peking University Press, 2002)

Gray Tuttle

Gray Tuttle

Leila Hadley Luce Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Office: 401 Kent Hall
Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: (212) 854-4096
Email: gwt2102@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: Princeton University (’91)
MA: Harvard University (’96)
PhD: Harvard University (’02)

Classes Taught

ASCE UN1365 Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: Tibet
EARL GU4310 Life Writing in Tibetan Buddhism
HSEA GU4720 20th Century Tibetan History

Research Interests

Tibetan History & Religion

Gray Tuttle studies modern Tibetan history, from the 1600s to the 1950s. The role of Tibetan Buddhism in the history of twentieth century Sino-Tibetan relations as well as Tibet’s relations with the China-based Manchu Qing Empire is central to all his research. In his Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China (Columbia UP, 2005), he examined the failure of nationalism and race-based ideology to maintain the Tibetan territory of the former Qing empire as integral to the Chinese nation-state. Instead, he argues, a new sense of pan-Asian Buddhism was critical to Chinese efforts to hold onto Tibetan regions (one quarter of China’s current territory). His current research project, “Amdo Tibet, Middle Ground between Lhasa and Beijing (1578-1865),” is a historical analysis of the economic and cultural relations between China and Tibet in the early modern periods (16th – 19th centuries) when the intellectual and economic centers of Tibet shifted to the east, to Amdo — a Tibetan cultural region the size of France in northwestern China. Deploying Richard White’s concept of the “Middle Ground” in the context of two mature civilizations — Tibetan and Chinese — encountering one another, this book will examine how this contact led to three dramatic areas of growth that defined early modern Tibet: 1) the advent of mass monastic education, 2) the bureaucratization of reincarnate lamas’ charisma and 3) the development of modern conceptions of geography that reshaped the way Tibet was imagined. Recently he has turned to increasingly large data sets in an effort to ask and answer new questions about Tibetan history. In an effort to ask and answer new questions about Tibetan history, Gray has turned to increasingly large data sets over the course of his career. Starting with a database of over 1000 Amdo monasteries with dozens of fields of data (GIS location, foundation data, number of monks, rooms, livestock, etc), led to building datasets on 100s of incarnation series and monastic colleges as well, which have shaped the direction of the Amdo history book project in significant ways. Lately, with a research assistant, Gray has worked with larger datasets and the statistical computing and graphing programming language called “R” to examine existing data on Tibetan (mostly monk’s) longevity in comparison with Chinese monks, Chinese literati, and Europeans in history. Future plans include working with even larger datasets by examining the hydrology of the Tibetan plateau with climate scientists, to see if new perspectives of the large arcs of Tibetan history might be reframed by a deeper understanding of climate data.

Selected Publications

With Lan Wu. “Tibetan Buddhist Vanguards among the Mongols and Manchus, 1576-1638.” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, (October 2021).

“Pattern Recognition: Tracking the Spread of the Incarnation Institution through Time and across Tibetan Territory.” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines. 38 (February 2017)

Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China’s West. Co-edited with Ben Hillman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.

Sources of Tibetan Tradition (co-editor, Columbia, 2013)

The Tibetan History Reader (co-editor, Columbia, 2013)

Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China (Columbia, 2005)

Zhongqi Shi

Zhongqi Shi

Senior Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 615 Kent Hall
Office Hours: MTWR 11:00-11:30, 12:45-1:30
Phone: 212-854-0660
Email: zs2132@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Cognitive Studies in Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
MA: Applied Linguistics, Beijing Language and Culture University
BA: Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Beijing Language and Culture University

Classes Taught

CHNS UN3003 Third Year Chinese I
CHNS UN3004 Third Year Chinese II
CHNS GU4012 Business Chinese I
CHNS GU4013 Business Chinese II
CHNS GU4112 Advanced Business Chinese I
CHNS GU4113 Advanced Business Chinese II

Research Interests

Goals Theory and Motivation
Instructional Technology and Multimedia
Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
Teaching Chinese for Special Purposes

Dr. Zhongqi Shi has been at Columbia University teaching Chinese language and culture for more than 15 years. He has developed and taught Chinese language courses of all levels and specializes in Chinese for Business Purposes. He authored several textbooks that are widely used in the US and China. Dr. Shi is a frequent presenter at national and international professional conferences. Currently he serves on the Board of Chinese Languages Teachers Association (CLTA-USA), and has been elected as the Vice President of the largest Chinese teachers association in the United States. He also directed Columbia’s Business Chinese and Internship program in Shanghai from 2008-2016.

Publications

Needs Analysis in Teaching Chinese for Special Purposes: From Theory to Practice (专用汉语教学需求分析：从理论到实践), ChineseLanguage Teaching Methodology and Technology: Vol. 3 (2). 2020. Available at: https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cltmt/vol3/iss2/7

1997-2017 Business Chinese Teaching and Research Overview. International Chinese Language Education), 4(4), 6-19. 2019.

Student-teacher goal alignment: Conceptualizing, measuring, and determining its effect on interaction and motivation, In X. H. Wen, & X. Jiang (Eds.), Studies on Learning and Teaching Chinese as a Second Language” (CLTA Monograph V), 2018.

The importance of students and teachers having congruent goals for Chinese language learning, Studies in Chinese Learning and Teaching, 2016.

Pragmatic development in a study-abroad setting: A comparison between heritage and non-heritage Chinese learners. Global Chinese Language and Culture Education, 2014.

Word selection ratio and core wordlist for Business Chinese textbooks, Applied Linguistics, 2012.

Textbooks

Winning Strategies (V1): Learning Business Chinese through Real Companies《商务中文案例教程－策略卷》 (China Translation & Publishing Corporation; Editor-in-chief/Lead author)

Winning Strategies (V2): Cross-cultural Cases. 《商务中文案例教程－文化卷》 (China Translation & Publishing Corporation; Editor-in-chief/co-author)

Winning Strategies (V3): Real Talks in Business settings. 《商务中文案例教程－对话卷》 (China Translation & Publishing Corporation, in press; Editor-in-chief/co-author)

Understanding China – for Advanced Readers. 《理解中国－高级汉语教程》 (Peking University Press; Lead author)

Excellence in Business Chinese – Practical Application. 《卓越汉语－公司实战》 (Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press; Editor-in-chief /Lead author)

Business Chinese Vocabulary Handbook (Intermediate level). 《商务汉语词汇手册－中级》. Beijing: Beijing Language and Culture University Press. Manuscript under review.