Li Yu  Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Culture |  At Williams since 2005
Li.Yu@williams.edu
Office: Stetson Hall b12
(413)597-2799 | [Areas of Expertise and Interest]:
 Chinese language pedagogy
History of Reading in Late Imperial China
Multimedia Learning Material Development | | [Courses Frequently Taught]: (CHIN)
First-year through Fourth-year Chinese
Popular Culture in China
Minority Peoples and Cultures in China
Women Readers and Writers in Late Imperial China
| | [Education]:
B.A. Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (Duiwai Hanyu), East China Normal University, Shanghai, PRC, 1994
M.A. Chinese Language Pedagogy, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1997
Ph.D. Chinese Language Pedagogy and Cultural History, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2003 | | [Previous Posts]:
Adjunct Lecturer of Chinese Language, Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Emory University, 2003-2005
Visiting Lecturer and Master Teacher, Training Program for Teachers of Chinese and Japanese, SPEAC program, The Ohio State University, Summers 2003, 2004
Lecturer of Chinese, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University, 2000-2001
Coordinator and Instructor, Chinese Individualized Instruction, Ohio State University, 1998-2000
Graduate Teaching Associate (Instructor of Chinese), East Asian Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University, 1995-2000
Instructor of Chinese, International Exchange Center, East China Normal University, Shanghai, PRC, 1993-1995 | | [Publications]:
Yu, Li. 2004. "Learning to Read in Late Imperial China." Studies on Asia: Series II, Vol I, No. 1: 7-29.
Yu, Li. 2003. Book Review of King Arthasiddhi: a Mongolian Translation of "The Younger Brother Don Yod" by Marta Kiripolská (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2001.) Journal of Central Asian Studies 5.2.
Yu, Li. 2001. "Conference Report of Beyond Peony Pavilion: Performances, Ethnicity and Cultural Processes in China." AAS Newsletter, Vol. 46, No. 4, Winter Issue 2001. p. 19.
Yu, Li. 2001. Book Review of The Eternal Storyteller: Oral Literature in Modern China. Edited by Vibeke Bordahl. (Surrey: Curzon Press, 1999.) Journal of American Folklore. Volume 14, Winter 2001, No. 451. pp. 119-121.
Yu, Li. 2000. "Representation of Ethnic Minorities in Chinese Propaganda Posters, 1957-1983." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC) Resource Center Publication.
· Yu, Li. 1995. "Dianying yiming chutan" [A Preliminary Analysis of the Chinese Translation of English Film Titles]. Huadong shifan daxue xuebao [Journal of East China Normal University].
Translation
Yu, Li. and Ruirong Gu. (Trans.) 1996. Chun lai cao zi qing (The Grass Grows By Itself) by Osho, Shanghai: East Publishing Center.
| | [Awards]: Winner of the national competition for Council of Graduate Schools/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award in the field of Humanities and Fine Arts for 2002-2003.
Percy Buchanan Best Graduate Paper Award for the Area of China and Inner Asia at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA), 2003.
The Michio Nagai Award for Best Papers (1st place) at the Sixth Midwest Conference on Asian History and Culture, May 2002.
Presidential Fellowship for outstanding research, Graduate School, The Ohio State University, 2001-2002
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