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Zhaohua Yang

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Sheng Yen Assistant Professor of Chinese Buddhism

Office: Room 307, 80 Claremont
Office Hours: M 6:00-6:45 PM/W 4:45pm-6:00 PM; email for appointment confirmation
Phone: (212) 851-4147
Email: zy2200@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Stanford University

Classes Taught

RELI UN2405 Chinese Religious Traditions

RELI GU4307 Interactions of Buddhism and Daoism in China
CHNS GR9333 Readings in Chinese Religion

Research Interests

Zhaohua Yang received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. He specializes in tantric or esoteric Buddhism in middle-period China. His research interests also include indigenous scriptures, the interactions between Buddhism and Daoism, and religions on the Silk Road. In addition to his training in pre-modern Dunhuang and Japanese manuscripts, he has done extensive fieldwork in Mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, and the US. He is finishing his first book manuscript, Devouring Impurities: Myth, Ritual and Talisman in the Cult of Ucchuṣma in Tang China (618-907), which explores Chinese responses to antinomian tantric practices as seen through a Dunhuang manuscript on this fierce god. His next project, tentatively titled Performing Yoga: Transformations of Buddhist Ritual in Late Imperial China (960-1450), studies the evolution from Yoga in esoteric Buddhism to Yoga as a monastic category in institutional Buddhism.

Selected Publications

“Snake, Spell, Spirit, and Soteriology: The Birth of an Indian God Jiedi 揭諦 in Middle-period China (618-1279).” Religion 14 (2023)

Ling Yan

Ling Yan

Senior Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 512 Kent Hall
Office Hours: TR 11:15am-12:45pm
Phone: (212) 854-3594
Email: ly2131@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Linguistics, University of Kansas (2005)
MA: Applied Linguistics, Northwestern Polytechnical University (1996)
BA: British Literature, Northwest University (1986)

Classes Taught

CHNS UN1101 First Year Chinese I
CHNS UN1102 First Year Chinese II
CHNS GU4015 Fourth Year Chinese I
CHNS GU4016 Fourth Year Chinese II

Research Interests

Linguistics
Second Language Acquisition
Chinese Teaching Pedagogy and Culture
Syntax and Prosodic-Syntax

Ling Yan started teaching Chinese in 1999 and has taught Chinese at all levels. She joined the Columbia faculty in 2004. In addition to teaching, she also serves as the Coordinator of Elementary Chinese. Before joining Columbia, she played an active role as a summer instructor at the University of Kansas.

Publications

Approaching China Textbook (1st Year) (Pekin University Press, 2015)
“Yuti (Register-Stylistic) Grammar and Textbook Compiling” (Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 2013; co-author)
“An Analysis of the Chinese Prosodic Words in Rewritten Chinese” (Proceedings of The 18th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL) and 22th Annual North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL), 2010)
201 Chinese Verbs (2nd edition) (Barrons Educational Series, Inc., 2007; co-author)
“A Statistic Analysis of VP Prosody in Modern Chinese Writing” (Harvard University Proceedings on New Trend of Chinese Written Language Teaching and Studies, 2005; co-author)
“The Syntax of the Ba-constructions” (Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2004)

Jia Xu

Jia Xu

Senior Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 506 Kent Hall
Office Hours:  MTWR 11:20-11:35, W 3:00-5:00
Phone: (212) 854-8545
Email: jx2196@columbia.edu

Educational Background

EdM: Educational Psychology: Cognitive Behavioral and Developmental Analysis, Teachers College, Columbia University

EdM: Curriculum and Methodology of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Beijing Language and Culture University

BA: Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Beijing Language and Culture University

Classes Taught

CHNS UN1101-UN1102 First Year Chinese I and II

CHNS UN2201-UN2202 Second Year Chinese N I and II

CHNS UN2221-UN2222 Second Year Chinese W I and II

CHNS UN3003-UN3004 Third Year Chinese N I and II

CHNS GU4015-GU4016 Fourth Year Chinese N I and II

Research Interests

Educational Technology

Cognitive Science in Education/Educational Psychology

Chinese Language Pedagogy

Jia Xu began her career as a Chinese lecturer in 2005 and joined the Columbia faculty in 2012. Prior to Columbia, she taught all levels of Chinese at BLCU. She also served as a program coordinator, language instructor, and textbook editor for the foreign diplomats program in Beijing. Additionally, she independently established and taught a full Chinese language program at the Bentley School in California. Jia Xu is the author or co-author of several textbook series, including the Authentic Chinese series, Chinese Textbooks for Foreign Diplomats, the Great Wall Chinese series, and the official examination papers and Chinese proficiency test syllabus for all levels of the HSK and YCT exams. At Columbia, she has taught Chinese from the first through the fourth year and currently teaches second-year and third-year Chinese. Jia Xu also serves as the third-year Chinese (humanities) coordinator and program coordinator for teaching associates (TAs) in EALAC.

Publications

Authentic Chinese (Volume II). Textbook. (Phoenix Tree Publishing Inc., 2024; co-author) 

Authentic Chinese (Volume I). Textbook. (Phoenix Tree Publishing Inc., 2023; co-author)  

Authentic Chinese (Volume I). Workbook. (Phoenix Tree Publishing Inc., 2023; co-author)

Teaching Standards, Approaches, and Techniques for K-12 Chinese Classes in the US (Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology, 2020)
Chinese for Foreign Diplomats, publication pending
Teaching Philosophy, Methods and Practices among U.S. K-12 Chinese Teachers (Intensive Chinese Language Educational Research, Beijing Language and Culture University Press, 2011)
Great Wall Chinese(textbook and workbook), publication pending
Official Examination Papers of HSK Level 1 to Level 6 (Sinolingua, 2011; co-author)
Chinese Proficiency Test Syllabus Level 3, 5 & 6 (The Commercial Press, 2010; co-author)
Chinese Proficiency Test Syllabus Speaking, (The Commercial Press, 2010; co-author)
Official Examination Papers of YCT Level 1 to 4 (The Commercial Press, 2009; co-author)