Faculty-Language-Pedagogy

Zhirong Wang

Zhirong Wang

Senior Lecturer in Chinese, Director of the Chinese Language Program

Office: 512 Kent Hall
Office Hours: MW 10:30-11:30
Phone: (212) 854-3594
Email: zw30@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Chinese Language, University of Wisconsin-Madison
BA: Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University

Classes Taught

CHNS UN3003 Third-Year Chinese N I
CHNS UN3004 Third Year Chinese II
CHNS GU4019 History of the Chinese Language

Research Interests

Chinese Language
Chinese Historical Linguistics
Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language

Zhirong Wang joined Columbia University in 1996 and has taught courses including Elementary Chinese, Elementary Chinese for Advanced Beginners, Introductory Chinese, Intermediate Chinese, Advanced Chinese, Readings in Modern Chinese, and History of Chinese Language. She also serves as the EALAC Language Lecturer Coordinator.

Publications

Advanced Chinese for Humanities I: Renwentianxia人文天下 (Beijing Language and Culture University Press, 2016)
Advanced Chinese for HumanitiesII: Renwentianxia 人文天下 (Beijing Language and Culture University Press, 2016)
An Elementary Chinese Reader for Advanced Beginners I (Peking University Press, 2004)
An Elementary Chinese Reader for Advanced Beginners II (Peking University Press, 2005)
A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese 大学语文 (Simplified Characters Edition) (Columbia University Press, 2004; co-author)
DaxueYuwen: A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese (Columbia University Press, 2003; co-author)

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)

Sonam Tsering

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Sonam Tsering

Senior Lecturer in Tibetan, Director of the Tibetan Language Program

Office: 502-A Kent Hall
Office Hours: T 2:30-5 PM
Phone: (212) 854-0596
Email: st2931@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: Social Anthropology, University of London

Classes Taught

TIBT UN1600 First Year Modern Colloquial Tibetan I
TIBT UN1601 First Year Modern Tibetan II
TIBT UN2603 Second Year Modern Colloquial Tibetan I
TIBT UN2604 Second Year Modern Tibetan II
TIBT UN3611 Third Year Modern Colloquial Tibetan I
TIBT UN3612 Third Year Modern Tibetan II

Research Interests

Tibetan Language

Sonam Tsering is the director of the Tibetan language program at Columbia. Sonam previously taught at the University of Michigan, where he also remotely taught students at Yale and Ohio State University, via live video technology. Originally from Rebgong (Qinghai, PRC), Sonam later lived in the Tibetan community in exile in India, founding and editing Bod kyi Dus bab (Tibet Times newspaper).

Online publications

Introduction” for the English Translation of The Division of Heaven and Earth – on the peaceful revolution of the Earth Rat year by Shokdung, Xining (unpublished yet, 2008)
“The Historical Polity of Repgong” (The Tibetan and Himalayan Library, 2011) http://places.thlib.org/features/23751/descriptions/1225
Translation: Clear Sky and Red Earth – A Himalayan Story by Sienna Craig, Illustrations by Tenzin Norbu, (Mera Publications, 2004)
“Ipolito Desideri” (Latse Library Newsletter, 2004)
“La dwags kyi ag bar and its background” (Latse Library Newsletter, 2005)
New York Regular contribution to Nyenchen Thanglha, Nor Od, Tibetan Review, Mangtso and Tibet Times, Dharamasala, India 1987 – 1993
Numerous Articles in Qinghai Zangwen Bao (Qinghai Tibetan Language Newspaper), Qinghai Fazhi Bao (Qinghai Law Magazine), Xining, PRC