International Chinese Forum 2018

• Introduction by Yea-Fen Chen 陳雅芬
• 南北台灣城鄉的文化，宗教，與語言變化的研究, Lung-Sheng Sung 宋龍生 (National Taipei Education University, Taiwan)

• Russell Valentino, Associate Dean, Office of International Affairs, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University

• Introduction by Ik-sang Eom嚴翼相
• Language and Culture Change: Chinese Color Terms in Social and Cultural Contexts, Professor Margaret M Yan 嚴棉 (Indiana University)

• Lee A. Feinstein, Dean, School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University

• Chaired by James H.-Y. Tai 戴浩一
• “Indiana School” of Chinese Linguistics and Pedagogy, Ik-sang Eom 嚴翼相 (Hanyang University, Korea)
• Experimental and Typological Approaches to Chinese Linguistics at Indiana University, Chien-Jer Charles Lin 林千哲 (Indiana University)
• From EASLI to FCI: Chinese Language Teaching/Learning at Indiana University and in the United States Yea-Fen Chen 陳雅芬 (Indiana University)

• Chaired by Marjorie Chan 陳潔雯 
• 中國雅文化探源, Chi-Ying Alice Wang 王寄瀛 (Purdue University)
• The Debates on the Translation of 'God' in Late Imperial China, Chia-Li Julia Luo 羅佳莉 (Indiana University)

• Inductive and Deductive Learning of Mandarin Classifiers, Tzu-I Chiang 江姿儀 & Paul Richards
• A Corpus-based Study of Chinese Directional Resultative Complement qǐlái and its Interaction with Stative and Dynamic predicates, Alessia Cherici 愛莉 & Yung-Yung Chang 張詠詠
• Some Reflections on Teaching Classical Chinese to Advanced Chinese Students, Yiwen Zheng 鄭伊雯

• 花木兰这个人物在中国人和美国人的心目中的不同地位Filial Daughter or Women Warrior? An Analysis on American and Chinese Perceptions of Hua Mulan’s Story, Nora Zeng 曾祥燕
• 电影审查制度如何影响中国的电影文化Censorship, Freedom of Speech, and Chinese Cinema, Janine Tang 湯家寧
• 少数民族文化保护与民族旅游Ethnic Minority Cultural Preservation and Ethno-tourism, Taylor Lawrence 勞苔莉
• 中国当代金融市场的发展与展望Financial Sector Reform in China: How Have China’s Financial Markets Developed and How They Should Continue to Develop, William Patterson 潘威
• 干细胞在医学中的重要性 The Importance of Stem Cell Research in Medicine, Manda Wang 王一回

• Chaired by Weijia Zhang 張維佳 
• William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: A Beijing Opera Adaptation of Characters and Role Types, Marjorie Chan 陳潔雯 (Ohio State University)
• “When a Regional Folksong Form Goes National: Languages, Styles, and Representations” Sue Tuohy 蘇獨玉 (Indiana University)

• Voicing Concerns in Contemporary Chinese Didactic Dystopias: Wang Lixiong’s Yellow Peril and Chan Koonchung’s The Fat Years,Jingjing Cai 蔡晶晶
• P-center in Mandarin Chinese, Yu-Jung Lin 林宇容
• Topic Discovery Analysis in Chinese Linguistics Journals Based on Topic Model, Zuoyu Tian 田作宇

• Chaired by Heung-soo Park 朴興洙 
• 以语言史为研究目标的语言地理学, Weijia Zhang 張維佳 (Beijing Normal University, China)
• 马来西亚社会语言学调查与研究前瞻, Mei Jin 金美 (Xiamen University, Malaysia)

• Introduction by Charles Lin 林千哲 
• Some Perspectives on Cognition in Chinese Language and Culture, James H.-Y. Tai 戴浩一 (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)

• Chaired by Ka Ho Tse 謝家浩
• 汉语形声字历史音变浅析, Yingyu Zhang 張英宇 (Defense Language Institute, US)
• 日語母語者中文雙音節聲調發音偏誤分析, Jung-yueh Tu 杜容玥 (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

• Chaired by Jin Mei 金美 
• “X迷”族词小考, Heung-soo Park 朴興洙 (Hankook University of Foreign Studies, Korea)
• PowerPoint 與多媒體漢字筆順教學的設計與實踐 Ka Ho Tse 謝家浩 (The Educational University of Hong Kong, China)
• 母語者之漢語詞彙量及華語詞彙分級的問題. Shih-Chang Hsin 信世昌(National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan)

Professor Margaret M. Yan was born in Amoy (Xiamen), Fujian, China. In early childhood, she spoke Amoy dialect at home, Mandarin at school. When she was 10 years old, her family moved to Hong Kong where she had learned Cantonese and English. In 1953, her family moved to Taipei, Taiwan, where she had completed her secondary education and received a BA degree in Anthropology of National Taiwan University. In 1968, she received a China Fellowship from Cornell University for her graduate study and received an MA degree in Linguistics in 1969. In the fall of 1969, she received Four-Year's Fellowship from Stanford University for her further study in Linguistics and received her Ph. D. in January 1974. After teaching Mandarin and Cantonese at the California State University, Hayward for 2 years (1973-75) and teaching Mandarin at the University of San Francisco for 1973-74. In 1975, she had joined Indiana University's faculty, and had taught at the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures until she retired in 2002. The courses that she had taught included: 1st year to 4th year levels of Chinese, Cantonese, Chinese Linguistics, Seminar on History of Chinese Phonology, Chinese Language and Culture, and Field Work of Chinese Dialects. She was the Director of the East Asian Summer Language Institute, Indiana University in 1989-92.

She had received a Fulbright-Hays Research Abroad Fellowship to conduct Chinese dialect field work in Taiwan in 1981-82. In the summer of 1983, she served as an Exchange Professor to Shandong University, China, and in 1987-88, she served as an Exchange Professor to Tenri University, Japan. She had received Three-Year Research Grant to conduct "A Linguistic Survey of Taiwan and Fujian Provinces, from Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange", USA in 1990-93. She received an Indiana University Trustees' Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching, in 2002.

She was elected and served two terms as the President of Chinese Teacher's Association (USA) in 1987 and 1988.

Her publications include numerous articles on Chinese dialect studies, Chinese language and culture, and Sino-Japanese history. A set of Chinese language textbooks and Teacher's Manual for: Interactions I-II: A Cognitive Approach to Beginning Chinese (co-author with Jennifer L. C. Liu) 1997. In 2006, her Introduction to Chinese Dialectology was published by LINCOM EUROPA, Munich, Germany.

Professor James H.-Y. Tai is Chair Professor in linguistics and Director of the Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences of National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. He received his doctoral degree in Linguistics from Indiana University in 1970, and taught at Southern Illinois University and Ohio State University (1970-1995) before joining National Chung Cheng University to serve as the founding chair of the Graduate Institute of Linguistics and later as Deanof the College of Humanities(1997-2002), and Vice-President (2008). He was Director-General of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Taiwan National Science Council during 2002-2005,President of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (2004) and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Taiwan Linguistic Society (2010). He has served on the editorial board on more than a dozen of journals, including as an associate editor for the Journal of Chinese Linguistics (1976-2018), Editor in Chief for Journal of Chinese Language Teachers’ Association (USA, 1987-1994), and Journal of Chinese Language Teaching (Taiwan, 2011-2017).

His research focuses on syntagmatic relations on the syntax-semantics interface and the modality of communication in spoken language and sign language, with reference to the universals and particulars of human language. For that purpose, he founded the Taiwan Center for Sign Linguistics in 2015.Since 2010, he has been working with psychologists and neuropsychiatrists on the relationship between language and aging, with the aim of identifying linguistic markers of dementia in Chinese. He is currently the Co-PI of the Center for Innovative Research on Aging Society at National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan.

Professor Lung-sheng Sung was born in Harbin, China. He had lived in Xinjiang for ten years and moved to Taiwan with his family in 1949. Where he had completed his secondary education and received his BA (1962) and MA (1965) in Anthropology at National Taiwan University. He has conducted extensive field works in the aboriginal tribes in northern and eastern Taiwan from 1960-2000. In 1969, he came to the United States for his graduate studies and received an MA (1970) and a Ph. D. (1975) in anthropology from Stanford University.

His teaching positions include: 1973-74 Instructor, Dept. of Anthropology, Stanford University, courses taught: Advanced Mandarin for Anthropologists, and Chinese Language and Culture. In 1974-75 (Spring semester) Instructor, Dept of Behavioral Sciences, City College of San Francisco, California. In 1975-77 Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, courses taught: Culture of China; Culture Change in Contemporary China; Chinese Minorities in the United States, and Theory of Culture Change. In 1978-83 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, course taught: Chinese Culture and Society). In 1993-94, Associate Research Fellow/Head of the Department of Research and Collection, National Museum of Prehistory Planning Bureau, Taitung, Taiwan. In 1995-2000, Professor of Anthropology, Department of Social Education, National Taipei Education University, Taipei, Taiwan, courses taught: Chinese Culture and Society; Taiwan Aboriginal Society and Culture, Social and Cultural Anthropology, History of Taiwan Aboriginal Tribes.

His publications include numerous articles on Chinese culture and society, and Taiwan Aboriginal cultures and societies. Since 1997, he has published five books on the Puyuma tribe's culture and society (in Chinese). Two of them: The Puyuma Society and Culture (1997), received the First Price Award of Taiwan Aboriginal Histories and Culture Studies, Ministry of Education in 1998. Myths and Legends of the Puyuma: The Words of the Nanwang Ancestors (1998) received the First Price Award of Taiwan Aboriginal Histories and Culture Studies, Ministry of Education in 1999.