Tianqi Jiang

Tianqi Jiang is a Lecturer in the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures at Columbia University. She holds a PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Beijing Language and Culture University, an MA in MTCSOL (Master of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages), and a BA in English Language and Literature from Northwest University of Politics and Law. Her research focuses on Legal Chinese, Chinese for Specific Purposes, and Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, with a notable dissertation titled “A Linguistic Study of Chinese Business Contracts”, which examines the linguistic features of Chinese contractual discourse.

Before joining Columbia in 2016, Dr. Jiang taught Chinese at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy, and participated in the Columbia Summer Program in Beijing. She also maintains research interests in East Asian art history.