Presentations

• " The Characteristics of Classical Chinese Language: Implications for and Applications to Teaching Classical Chinese" Paper will be presented at the Annual Meeting of Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA), Wyndham Anatole Hotel, Dallas, Texas, November 19-21, 1999.
  


• " The Omission of yu in Classical Chinese" Paper will be presented at Eleventh North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-11), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, June 18-20, 1999.
  

• "Designing a Newspaper Chinese Reading Course"" Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA), Chicago Hilton and Tower, Chicago, IL, November 20-22, 1998.
  


• " Taiwanese Languages: Symbol of an Emerging Identity in Modern Taiwan" Presented at the First Annual Boston Intercollegiate Taiwanese Students Association Conference (BITSA), Harvard University, Boston, MA, November 14, 1998.
  

• " Hand Puppet Theater: Emergent Structures and the Resurgence of Taiwanese Identity" Presented at the Third Annual Conference on the History and Culture of Taiwan, Columbia University, NY, August 20-23. 1998.
  


• " The Nature of yu and its Relative Word Order in Classical Chinese" Paper presented at the Joint Conference of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the International Association on Chinese Linguistics (IACL-7) and the Tenth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-10), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, June 26-28, 1998.
  

• "The Role of Size and Shape in Three-dimensional Classifiers in Mandarin Chinese" Paper presented at the The Ninth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-9), University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, May 2-4, 1997.
  


• "A Cognitive-Based Functional Account of Variations in the Use of Classifiers in Chinese" (co-author with Wenze Hu, Harvard University). Paper presented at the The Ninth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-9), University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, May 2-4, 1997.
  

• "Puppet Performance and the Resurgence of Taiwan Local Culture" Paper presented at the Conference on the Local Languages and Local Cultures of China, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, April 25-27, 1997.
  


• "Emergent Structures in Contemporary Taiwan Glove Puppet Theater" Paper presented at the Conference on Chinese Oral and Performing Literature (CHINOPERL), Conjunction Program With the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association For Asian Studies (AAS), Chicago, Illinois, March 13, 1997.
  

• "High-tech and Emergence in Taiwan Hand Puppet Theater" Paper presented at the American Folklore Society Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 17-20, 1996.
  


• "A Semantic study of the classifiers tiau5, tiuN1 and liap8 in the Southern Min Dialect" Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Chinese Linguistics (ICCL-5), National Tsing Hua University, Hsin Chu, Taiwan, June 27-29, 1996.