Personal Details
Name: Huanhai FANG
Current Title: Professor, Xiamen University, P.R.China;
Director of Chinese Language & Culture Research Center, Delaware State University, U.S.A
Address: Room 405, Kunluan Building, International Chinese Education College,Xiang’anCampus,Xiamen University
Xiamen,Fujian Province,P.R.China , 361102
Research Interests: Cognitive Linguistics, Teaching Chinese as a Foreign
Language, International Chinese Language Education,
International Sinology (Chinese Teaching)
Courses Taught: Introduction to Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language,
Introduction to Second Language Acquisition, Country-
Specific Chinese Language Survey Research, Special
Topics in International Chinese Language Dissemination
Email: fanghuanhai@xmu.edu.cn
Education Background
1986-1990: B.A. in Chinese Language& literatureEducation,Xuzhou Teachers College
1992-1995: M.A. in Classical Chinese Languages Xuzhou Normal University
1996-1999: Ph.D. in Chinese Language Studies Fudan University
2002-2005, Post-doctoral Fellow in linguistics Nanjing Normal University
Positions Held
1995-2007 Lecturer(1995), Associate Professor(2001) andProfessor(2007), Department of Chinese Language& literature, Xuzhou Normal University
2007-2008 Visiting Scholar at Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
2008-2009 Professor and Dean of Language Sciences School Xuzhou Normal University
2018-2019 Visiting Scholar at Department of Linguistics ,Harvard University
2009-now Professor, International Chinese Education College, Xiamen University
2023-now Director of Chinese Language & Culture Research Center, Delaware State University, U.S.A
Main Interests
My research focuses on Cognitive Linguistics, Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, International Chinese Language Education, Western Sinology (Chinese Teaching), and the spread of Chinese languages in Western countries.
The research projects I am currently in charge ofare supported bythe National Philosophy and Social Sciences Fund (NO. 15BYY052) and the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of the Ministry of Education of China (NO. 13YJAZH021).
Recently, I led the completion of the Construction and Research of the "Four-Dimensional" Characteristic Sinology Case Database, a research project of the Language Cooperation and Exchange Center of the Ministry of Education. I am also in charge of a special project supported by the FundamentalResearch Funds for the Central Universities, entitled "A Study on the Westward Transmission of Shanshu(善书) and Their Influence on the Spread of Chinese Civilization".
RepresentativePublished Articles
1. Fang Huanhai&Tan Xiangrong, Empty Subject: Its Nature, Distribution, and Related Problems, Foreign Languages Research, Dec. 2006.
2. Fang Huanhai, The Initial Consonant System of Jianghuai Mandarin in Late Qing Dynasty, Studies in Language and Linguistics, June, 2005.
3. Fang Huanhai&Gan Lu, Comment on the Studies of Serial Verb Construction in Modern Chinese, Journal of Xuzhou Normal University, October, 2006.
4. Fang Huanhai&Shen Xing’an, On the Nature of Pragmatics and Related Issues, Linguistic Sciences, January, 2003.
5. Fang Huanhai&Tan Xiangrong, On null subject in VP Non-predicate structure, Linguistic Sciences, March, 2008.
6. FangHuanhai& Shen Ling& CHEN Xiuyu,Three Perspectives on the Characteristics in the Studies of Chinese Language,EERES,Jane 2016.
7. Fang Huanhai, Hu Rong, Cui Dandan & Lin Wenqi,On Chinese parts of speechand its characteristicsin Western Sinology, SinologicalReaserch of East Asia (Japan), September 2013.
8. Fang Huanhai& John Matthews,The Nature,Distribution and Relevant Questions on Null Subject in Mandarin Chinese，Quarterly Journal of Chinese Studies，Jane,2013.
9. Fang Huanhai& Qu Fan & Yin Ye & Wang Yumeng, A study on the Infinitive Structure in Chinese from the Noun Small Clause，Journal of Chinese Studies，June,2012.
10. Fang Huanhai,Cognitive analysis on the syntactic property of preposition in Chinese as a second language，Chinese as a second language research (USA, New York), June,2012.
11. Fang Huanhai& Zhao Ming, Mechanisms underlying syntactic and semantic processing of Chinese simple sentences，Neural Regeneration Research，September,2011.
12. Fang Huanhai& Shen Ling,The nature and characteristics of Chinese Classifiers in Western Sinology, Chinese language and Linguistics, June 2016.
13. Shen Ling & Fang Huanhai& Chen Xiuyu, A Study on the Chinese part of speech in the sinology in 19th century——Taking James Summers’ A Handbook of the Chinese Language (1863)& Thomas Francis Wade’s Yu yen tzu erh chi(1867) as a Case Study. International Sinology，September,2016.
14. Fang Huanhai& Liu Hong,The mechanism of the double object structure of Chinese language in brain: evidence from ERP, ISTP,January,2015.
15. Fang Huanhai&Gao Mingle, A Review on cognitive linguistics,Journal of Xiamen University, August, 2010.
16. Fang Huanhai，Teaching Chinese in 19th-century Western Sinological Journals，Journal of Guizhou Normal University，2023.
17. Fang Huanhai, Ling Shen & Doris Chen，Research on the Design and Application of the QuantitativeAssessment System for Language Vitality of Chinese Language from the perspective of International Chinese Education，Journal of Educational Experience Ethnicity，2021.
18.Surinah,FangHuanhai& Zhu Yu,A Multidimensional Study on Indonesian CFL Learners' Lexical Competency development，Journal of Sichuan Normal University，2022.
PublishedBooks
1. Fang Huanhai, Western Sinology and Chinese characteristics Studies, World Book Inc.,Guangdong,2013.
2. Fang Huanhai, Chinese characteristics Studies from the perspective of sinology, Xiamen University Press,2017.
3. Fang Huanhai, A Study on Rare 19th-Century English Periodicals and the Overseas Spread of Chinese Language,Xiamen University Press, 2021.
