معرفی
Liyao Chen is a Doctoral Candidate in Chinese and a PreDoctoral Instructor at the University of Washington's Asian Languages & Literature department. His research spans interdisciplinary fields including linguistics, grapholinguistics (study of writing), philology, and literature, with a focus on the borrowing and adaptation of the Chinese script in non-Chinese languages and the circulation of Chinese-language texts within the premodern East Asian 'Sinographic Cosmopolis.'
Education:
- M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, 2017
- B.A., History, Peking University, 2015
Research Interests: Chen's work examines the relationship between language and writing through two perspectives: (1) encoding spoken languages in written form, and (2) decoding written texts into spoken language. His research integrates Western theoretical frameworks for the study of writing systems with East Asian philological traditions to develop a unified cross-linguistic approach for analyzing Sinographic writing.
Teaching Experience:
- Autumn 2025: ASIAN 200 A (Introduction to Asian Languages and Literature)
- Winter 2025: ASIAN 404 A (Writing Systems)
- Autumn 2024: CHIN 342 A (The Chinese Language), CHIN 442 A (The Chinese Language)
- Spring 2024: ASIAN 404 A (Writing Systems)
- Autumn 2023: CHIN 101 AA, AB, BA, BB (First-Year Chinese for Non-Heritage Learners)
- Spring 2022: CHIN 103 AA, AB, BA, BB (First-Year Chinese for Non-Heritage Learners)
- Winter 2022: CHIN 102 AA, AC, BA, BC (First-Year Chinese for Non-Heritage Learners)
- Autumn 2021: CHIN 101 AB, BB (First-Year Chinese for Non-Heritage Learners)
