Courses Taught: College English to non-major undergraduates,Selected Reader of Cognitive Linguistics (To postgraduates and PhD candidates),General Introduction to Semantics (To postgraduates),Applied Cognitive Linguistics (to postgraduates and PhD candidates) 

Research Interests:   Cognitive Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Language Economics, English education. 

Professional Experience: 

August 2011~    Professor, College of Foreign Languages and Cultures at Xiamen University

Dec 2000―July 2011 Associate Professor, College of Foreign Languages and Cultures at Xiamen University

August 1998―Nov 2000  Lecturer, College of Foreign Languages and Cultures at Xiamen University  

August 1992―July 1998  Assistant & lecturer, School of Economics at Xiamen University 

 Educational Background:

 July 1989  Bachelor of Arts from Foreign Languages Department at Fujian Normal University. 

July, 1992  Master of Arts from Foreign Languages and Literature Department at Xiamen University.

June 2005   PhD of Economics from School of Economics at Xiamen University.

August 2006―August, 2007  Visiting scholar to Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley