Faculty & Staff

Chinese

Keith Dede

Associate Professor (sabbatical 2009-10)
Chinese Language and Literature
Box: 30
Phone: (503) 768-7445
E-mail: dede@lclark.edu

Keith Dede specializes in Chinese linguistics, specifically the fields of dialectology and sociolinguistics. His recently completed dissertation,"Language Contact, Variation and Change: The Locative in Xining, Qinghai"(1999, University of Washington), examines linguistic changes in the dialect of Xining, a small city in northwestern China. The linguistic changes are studied from historical perspectives and in the context of current social change. The dissertation also examines the relationship of the dialect to other languages in the region, including Mongolian and Tibetan, the latter of which was the subject of an article co-authored with colleagues in the United States and China. Ancilliary interests include the history of Standard Chinese and its relationship to the dialects, Chinese language teaching, and modern Chinese literature and film.

Meiru Liu

Instructor
Chinese Language and Literature
Box: 30
Phone: (503) 768-7438
E-mail: liu@lclark.edu

Meiru Liu, (Ph.D., Portland State University), has been teaching Chinese language and literature at Lewis & Clark College since 1994. Her research interests are China studies, applied linguistics and Chinese pedagogy. Professor Liu is the author of several books and textbooks and numerous journal articles in her research area. She has presented papers and served as an invited speaker and panelist at local, regional, and international conferences, and at American and Chinese universities, academies and research institutions.

Lin Deng

Visiting Instructor of Chinese
Chinese Language and Literature
Box: 30
Phone: (503) 768-7445
E-mail: ldeng@lclark.edu

Lin Deng received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Peking University, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington. She specializes in Chinese linguistics, and her research interests include dialectology, historical phonology and grammar of Chinese with a special focus on approaching historical linguistic issues from comparative perspective. Her dissertation studies the development of demonstratives revealed in the Oracle Bone Inscriptions and the Bronze Inscriptions as well as transmitted texts that are allegedly contemporary with those two bodies of texts.

Wenjuan Zhao

Chinese Language Assistant
Phone: 503/768-7347
E-mail: wenjuan@lclark.edu

Ms.Zhao is a Foreign Language Assistant from Beijing, China. In 2009 she graduated from Soochow University, School of Humanities, Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language as her major.

Contact Us

The Chinese Program is located in Miller Center for the Humanities.

email forlang@lclark.edu

voice 503-768-7420
fax 503-768-7434

Chinese Program
0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road, MSC 30
Portland, Oregon 97219