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Trinity University currently has four full-time professors of Chinese language and literature. Allow us to introduce ourselves.
   

 
  On the right is Stephen L. Field, J.K. and Ingrid Lee Professor of Chinese. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1985, and taught at the College of William and Mary for five years before being hired to create the Chinese program at Trinity in 1990. Professor Field's expertise is classical Chinese literature. He is also an authority on fengshui, the Chinese art of dwelling orientation.

 
   

 
 
 

On the left is Jie Zhang, Assistant Professor of Chinese. She received a Ph.D. in Chinese and Comparative Literature from Washington University in St. Louis and a Master's degree in Contemporary Chinese Literature from Peking University. Before coming to Trinity, she was Assistant Professor of Chinese at Kenyon College. Her specialty is Chinese narratives, particularly fiction and drama from 1500 on, and Chinese-language film.

 
   

 
 
  On the right is Jinli He, Assistant Professor of Chinese. She received a Ph.D. from the Chinese Department of Peking University. Before coming to Trinity, she was a visiting scholar at Princeton University and the University of Hawai'i.  Her specialty is modern Chinese philosophy, and her interests range from Chinese literature to modern dance.

 

 

  On the left is Ginger Wu, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese and Japanese. She received Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from Incarnate Word University in San Antonio and a Certificate in Japanese from the Inter-Cultural Institute of Japanese in Tokyo, Japan. Her specialty is second-language acquisition.  
       
       
       

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