Lecturer

Dongxin Zou

Dongxin Zou

Lecturer in Discipline

Office Hours: M 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Office: 915 IAB
Email: dz2245@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: Beijing Foreign Studies University
MA: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
PhD: Columbia University

Classes Taught
HSEA GU4222 China’s Global Histories
ASCE UN1359 Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: China
 
Research Interests

Chinese history, history of medicine, global health, science and technology studies, Sino-Arab relations

Dongxin Zou is a historian of modern China, with special interests in the history of medicine, global production and circulation of knowledge and expertise, and the complex dynamics of China’s relations with the Arabic-speaking world. She is working on a book manuscript on Chinese medical missions to postcolonial Algeria and accompanying processes of technology transfer and knowledge production from the 1960s. It examines China’s health model of socialist medicine, medical humanitarianism, as well as the ongoing ramifications of globalization and world health politics in varied contexts across the global South then and now.

Dongxin received her PhD in History from Columbia University. Prior to coming back here, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Science, Technology, and Society Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

Selected Publications

Co-Author. “Heat, Cold, and Climatic Determinism in China’s Urban Epidemics.” Urban Studies (2022, online first). 

“Economizing Socialist Aid: China’s Failed Surgical Plant in Algeria, 1973–80.” Technology and Culture 63, no.3 (July 2022): 718–48.

“Orientalism without Power?: Chinese Female Ob-Gyns in Rural Algeria and Morocco in the Post-Mao Era.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 18:1 (March 2022): 105–133.

 

Yanwen Wu

 

Yanwen Wu

Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 615 Kent Hall
Office Hours: MW 1-2:30 PM
Phone: 212-854-0660
Email: yw4033@columbia.edu

Educational Background

Ph.D.: Chinese Linguistics, University of Wisconsin- Madison
M.A.: Chinese Linguistics, University of Wisconsin- Madison
B.A.: Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Nanjing University

Classes Taught

CHNS UN2201 Second Year Chinese N I
CHNS UN3003 Third Year Chinese I

Research Interests

Chinese Poetic Tonal Prosody
Second Language Acquisition
Phonology

Yanwen Wu joined the Columbia faculty in the Fall of 2022. Her dissertation, entitled “Tonal Prosody in Recent-style Verse of the Early Tang: From a Statistical Perspective”, studies the poetic metric patterns of Middle Chinese and how Chinese poetic prosody was developed throughout history. Her dissertation was awarded the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship supported by Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange and was invited to present at several national and international conferences. She also published and co-authored several articles in the field of second language acquisition and Chinese dialectology. Before joining EALAC, Yanwen taught Chinese language classes at all levels at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to teaching, she also had a lot of experience in coordinating and supervising different Chinese language and culture programs at UW-Madison.

Kaidi Chen

Kaidi Chen

Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 501 Kent Hall
Office Hours: TW 2:40 -4:10 PM
Phone: (212) 854-5038
Email: kc3640@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD ABD: Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies, University of Connecticut
MA: Chinese Linguistics, University of Macau
BA: Chinese Language and Literature (with Honors), Lanzhou University

Classes Taught

CHNS UN1101 First Year Chinese I
CHNS UN2201 Second Year Chinese N I

Research Interests

Psycholinguistics (speech perception and recognition)
Sociolinguistics (language attitude and sociophonetics)
Second language acquisition (L2 speech)
Language pedagogy (communicative approach and intercultural competence)
Open science and reproducible research practices
Data analysis and visualization

Kaidi Chen joined the Columbia EALAC department as a lecturer in the Fall of 2022. He works on applied linguistics in general. He has published (or edited) articles, book chapters and conference proceedings, and presented projects at regional, national and international conferences in many strands in this field. He is also an experienced language educator passionate about real-world pedagogical innovations. He is a core collaborator of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant project titled “An Engaging Digital Curriculum for Intermediate Chinese Language and Culture” from 2021 to 2022. His role in this project is mainly to work on the implementation of intercultural communicative competence and intercultural citizenship in the Chinese language classroom. He is one of the contributors to the book Teaching Beginning Chinese Grammar: Communicative Strategies and Activities, published by Boston Cheng&Tsui in 2020. He has experience in all levels of Chinese language/culture instruction, and domain-specific language/culture courses (e.g., Contemporary Chinese Film and Business Chinese). Prior to Columbia, he taught at Allegheny College, Trinity College, and Middlebury Summer Language School.