Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education: Understanding and Application in the U.S.

Doctor of Arts, professor and doctoral supervisor at Beijing Normal University, member of the Academic Committee of Beijing Normal University, and member of the National Graduate Education Steering Committee for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. He has taught Chinese language and culture courses at Dartmouth College and Middlebury College in the United States, Sungkyunkwan University in Korea, and Kanazawa University in Japan. He has been honored as a distinguished professor at Beijing Normal University and one of the top ten teachers most beloved by graduate students. His research interests include ancient Chinese literature and international Chinese education. He serves as the editor of “Research on Chinese Culture and Intercultural Communication for Second Language Teaching.

Professor and doctoral supervisor at Nanjing University, the vice dean of the Overseas Education College, a researcher at the Chinese Language Strategy Research Center, the director of the World Chinese Language Teaching Association, the deputy chairman of the Teacher Development Professional Committee of the World Chinese Language Teaching Association, a part-time doctoral supervisor at Nanjing Normal University, and a special researcher at the Language Resources Advanced Innovation Center of Beijing Language and Culture University. He has been engaged in frontline teaching and research work both domestically and internationally for a considerable period. He has taught at Middlebury Summer School, the Monterey International Institute, and Grinnell College for many years. He has published over 60 academic papers, nearly 10 books and textbooks, and has chaired numerous projects funded by organizations such as the National Social Science Foundation and the Humanities and Social Science Foundation of the Ministry of Education.