Chinese Language Faculty:

 

Dr. TIM XIE is a graduate of the Shanghai International Studies University. He speaks Chinese, English and Russian. He came to the United States in 1985 and enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh where he earned a master's in linguistics and a Ph.D. in foreign language education.

 

Dr. JACK LIU received his doctorate in foreign language education from the Purdue University, and is Assistant Professor and coordinator of Chinese program in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at California State University, Fullerton. He played a major role in development of Chinese language and culture curriculum for the Indiana Department of Education. His research interests include heritage learners, language testing and applied linguistics.

 

Dr. RUIXI RESSY AI received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in June 2006. After that, he served as a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University for half a year while doing his post doc research. He joined Defense Language Institute (Foreign Language Center) as an Assistant Professor in Spring 2007. Dr. Ai worked there for two years before he joined California State University at Long Beach in Fall 2009. He speaks both English and Chinese.

 

Prof. CHING-I TSAO is currently an instructor for the Chinese language at California State University, Long Beach. She has been teaching Mandarin at the Mandarin Training Center of National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Taiwan since 1989. She also taught Mandarin at Western Illinois University and University of Massachusetts for several years, as well as several private Chinese language training institutes.

 

Prof. XIAOWEN WU received her Master of Arts degree in Linguistics at CSULB, with a specialization in Applied Linguistics. She began her teaching career teaching Chinese and English courses at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Prof. Wu has been teaching Chinese at El Camino College since 2000. She is currently a lecturer in Chinese Studies at CSULB.

 

 

Staff:

 

Prof. JEFF WINTERS has been teaching Mandarin Chinese for over ten years. He is currently serving as the Director of the College of Liberal Arts Language Labs at California State University Long Beach. Professor Winters works extensively on developing multi-media and web-based language learning programs. He has served as Director of Chinese Computing at the Chinese International School in Hong Kong and as a language specialist in the New Media Center at California State University Long Beach.