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)
The Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies Library supports the graduate-level program in Chinese and American studies. The only uncensored, open-stack library in the People’s Republic of China (mainland), the Nanjing Center Library houses approximately 120,000 volumes and 400 periodicals in English and Chinese, with access to thousands of electronic resources. Floor-to-ceiling windows, reading carrels, couches and meetings rooms provide students with a pleasing study environment.