Associate Professor (substantive), Dept of Chinese & Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HONG KONG

2002/04 -- 2005/04

Associate Professor (title conferment), Dept of CBS, HKPU.

1993/10 -- 2002/03

Assistant Professor, Dept of CBS, HKPU.

1989/11 -- 1993/08

Ph.D. student and Part-time Teaching/Research Assistant, Departments of Linguistics, University College and the School of Oriental & African Studies, London University

1988/09 -- 1989/06

Lecturer and Deputy Director, English Section, Department of Foreign Languages, Fudan University, Shanghai

1987/09 -- 1988/08

Assistant Lecturer, Head of First Year Teaching Staff, English Section, Dept. of Foreign Lgs., Fudan University

1986/09 -- 1987/08

Assistant Lecturer, English Section, Dept. of Foreign Lgs., Fudan University

1984/09 -- 1986/08

Post-graduate student, Dept. of Foreign Lgs., Fudan University

1980/09 -- 1984/08

Undergraduate student, Dept. of Foreign Lgs., Fudan University

II. Qualifications and Awards

1995

Ph.D. in Linguistics, London University [University College, London (UCL), and the School of Oriental & African Languages (SOAS), London]

1989

University Award for Teaching Excellence, Fudan University

1988

Departmental Award for Teaching Excellence, Fudan University

1987

City Award for Teaching Excellence, Shanghai City Municipality

1987

MA in Modern English, Fudan University

1984

BA in English Language and Literature, Fudan University

III. Studies not Leading to Qualifications

1986/06

Institute of Modern Phonology (Lecturers: Paul Kiparsky, Bill Poser, Wang Jialing, etc.), Tianjin Normal University.

1992/08

Fourth European Summer School on Logic, Lg. & Information. Essex University. (mainly studied Discourse Representation Theory)

1995/08

Seventh European Summer School on Logic, Lg. & Information. Barcelona University. (mainly studied Categorial Grammar)

1996/08

Introductory & Intermediate Courses to Web Page Production. Office of Information Technology Services, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

1997/06 -- 1997/08

LSA Summer School in Linguistics, Cornell University. (mainly studied formal semantics, event semantics, and generalised conversational implicature theory)
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IV. Positions held

Current Internal Administrative Duties

Programme Leader, MA in Chinese Linguistics, Master of Arts Scheme, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Chairman of Departmental Learning and Teaching Committee, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Chairman of Departmental Technical Working Group, Dept. of CBS, HK PolyU.

Chairman of Departmental Web-teaching Committee

Current External Posts

Member of Board of Advisory Editors, Contemporary Linguistics (Quarterly). Beijing.

Member of Board of Advisory Editors, Linguistics & Applied Linguistics -- Modern Foreign Languages (Quarterly). Guangzhou.

Member of Editorial Board, Contemporary Linguistic Theory Series. US.

Invited Member of Board of Advisory Editors, English Studies. Sichuan.