Chinese Language Faculty
Associate Professor
Chinese Language and Literature
Box: 30
Phone: (503) 768-7445
E-mail: dede@lclark.edu
Keith Dede joined the Lewis & Clark faculty as Assistant Professor of Chinese in 2001. In 2007 he earned the rank Associate Professor and became the Chair of the East Asian Studies program. He received his doctorate in Asian Languages and Literatures from the University of Washington with a dissertation analyzing an ongoing change in the syntax of the Xining dialect of Qinghai, China. He teaches courses in general linguistics, Standard Chinese language and Chinese literature, including “Bones to Blossoms,” a history of Chinese literature in translation from the earliest writings to the medieval period. His publications include studies of the Chinese dialects of Qinghai from a sociolinguistic, historical linguistic and dialectological perspective. Two recent publications are, “The Deep End of the Feature Pool: Syntactic hybridization in Chinese dialects” (Journal of Chinese Linguistics 35.1) and “Standard Chinese and the Xining dialect: the rise of an interdialectal standard” (Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 16:2). His current research includes an analysis of the structure of the Xining dialect’s verb phrase and influence of Tibetan and Mongolic languages on the history of the dialect.
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, 1996), has been teaching Chinese language and literature at Lewis & Clark College since 1994. Her research interests are China studies, applied linguistics and Chinese pedagogy. Prof. 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.
 Xiaofei Wang
Chinese Language Assistant
Phone: 503/768-7347
E-mail: xiaofei@lclark.edu
Ms.Wang is a Fulbright Foreign Language Assistant from Sichuan, China. In 2004 she graduated from Northeast Normal University with English as her major. At present she teaches English at the School of Foreign Languages, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in Chengdu. Her academic interests range from general linguistics to applied linguistics. She upholds the motto "非淡泊无以明志，非宁静无以致远".
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