Faculty

Dr. Zhiqiang Li is a professor of Chinese and director of the Chinese Studies minor program in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of San Francisco. He holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT. 

Professor Li is a linguist. His research expertise includes several areas, including phonology, acoustic phonetics, Chinese linguistics, and language pedagogy. He has conducted research on phonological prominence in tone sandhi, the interaction of tone and intonation in...

Stephen Roddy is a professor of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, received his PhD in East Asian Studies from Princeton University, and specializes in the fiction and other prose genres of 18th and 19th century China and Japan. His current interests focus on the influences of Chinese fiction on late-Tokugawa writers, and of Meiji-period thinkers on essayists of the late-Qing. He teaches courses in Japanese and Chinese literature, culture, and language. He is also Chair Professor at the...

Professor Wenchi Chang is a PHP Adjunct Professor in the Chinese language program. She received her MA in Chinese from San Francisco State University in 2008; she also has a BA of Chinese Literature and holds two certificates of Training Program for teachers of Chinese as a foreign language in Beijing Normal University and National Taiwan Normal University. She has taught at UC Berkeley, UC Davis and National Taiwan Normal University Mandarin Training Center. Her teaching experience includes...

Wan Liu received a PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. She specializes in Chinese poetry, literary culture of the Tang and Song periods, gender and women. Among her favorite subjects of teaching are the relations among painting, calligraphy, and poetry.

Yachi Teng is a Chinese language and culture educator whose teaching spans Mandarin Chinese, Chinese calligraphy, and Chinese painting. At the University of San Francisco, she has taught Chinese language courses across all proficiency levels as well as The Art of Chinese Calligraphy and Chinese Painting. Her teaching emphasizes student-centered learning, cultural understanding, and meaningful hands-on engagement.
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Her broader interests focus on the connections among language...

Josephine Tsao has an MA in Chinese from San Francisco State University, and an MA and PhD in Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She also teaches Chinese at San Francisco State University and the City College of San Francisco.