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Jason D. Patent, Ph.D.
American Co-Director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies
Based in Nanjing, China
Background and Education
Served as the inaugural director of Stanford University's Overseas Studies Program in Beijing from 2004 to 2007; has taught dozens of courses as a head instructor and teaching assistant in areas ranging from Chinese language to cognitive linguistics to values and worldview; spent four years in private business as a management consultant, entrepreneur and vice president of marketing; Ph.D., linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
“Supracultural Models, Universalism and Relativism: The Language of Personhood in Chinese and American Cultures” in Language and Social Cognition: Expression of the Social Mind (2009); “Cultural Models in the U.S. and China: A Linguistic Investigation of Distributed Cognition” in the conference volume for the Eighth Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse & Language: Language in Action (2006); “A Unified Account of Essentially Contested Concepts” in Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2005); “What Linguistics Can Tell Us About Affirmative Action Discourse” in Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Symposium About Language and Society—Austin (2000); “A Willy-Nilly Look at Lai Ideophones” in Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area (1998); “A Lousy Time to Be Silver: Crisis in China’s Family-Based System of Care for the Elderly” in Berkeley Journal of Asian Studies (1995)
- Regions
- China
- Topics
- Culture, Religion and Politics
- Human Rights
- Foreign Languages
- Chinese