CentralUniversity Chinese Ethnic Minority Languages and Literature Discipline Overview

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Publishing Date: 2000-01-01
Features: Professor Song Ru (born in 1934, Mongolian) primarily studies Mongolian language, script, and literature, with additional research in Mongolian folklore, religion, and history. He has served as a council member of the China Mongolian Language and Literature Society, a member of the China National Ancient Script Research Association, and a member of the China National Ethnic Language Society. His main courses include Modern Mongolian, History of Mongolian Script, Mongolian Literature, Phagspa Script, Introduction to Linguistics, Introduction to Mongolian-Chinese Translation, and History of Mongolian Culture. In 1991, he was awarded the title of Outstanding Teacher in Beijing. His co-authored book Modern Mongolian won the First National Outstanding Educational Book Award in 1988. His major academic papers include Preliminary Exploration of Alxa Mongolian Folk Songs and others.
Professor Zhang Yongxiang (born in 1926, Miao) primarily engages in the teaching and research of Miao linguistics. He has served as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the Historical and Cultural Materials Committee of the National Committee, and a council member of the China National Ethnic Language Society. He participated in the national Miao language survey and contributed to the discussion and formulation of the Latin alphabet Miao script. His main courses include Eastern Guizhou Miao Language, Chinese-Miao Translation, and Miao Language Dialects. He has published numerous works, including the Miao-Chinese Dictionary, which won the Second National Ethnic Book Award, and co-authored A Collection of Miao-Yao Dialect Vocabulary and The Ethnic Dictionary. His well-known papers include A Preliminary Comparison of Miao and Chinese Word Formation, The Close Relationship Between Miao and Chinese Grammar, The Usage of the Character "Xiang" in Miao and Chinese, The Verb in Eastern Guizhou Miao, Miao Language, On the Translation and Arrangement of Miao Songs (Yangasha), Miao Translation into Chinese Should Pay Attention to the Characteristics of Chinese, Chinese Translation into Miao Should Pay Attention to the Characteristics of Miao, and Miao Script Can Promote the Modernization of the Miao Ethnic Group.
Professor Zhang Xingquan (born in 1934, Korean) primarily engages in the teaching and research of Korean linguistics. He has conducted language research at the Institute of Asian and African Languages and Cultures of the National Institute of Foreign Languages in Tokyo and the National Institute of Japanese Language in Japan. His main courses include Introduction to Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, General Sociolinguistics, Comparative Sociolinguistics, Selected Readings in Sociolinguistics, Russian, and Japanese. His major works include Modern Linguistics and A Study of Modern Vocabulary and Variation in Korean, Chinese, and Japanese. His translated works include To Live in the Flames and others. He has published more than 60 papers in Korean, Chinese, and Japanese, including Indo-European Loanwords in Korean, English Loanwords in Korean, Russian Loanwords in Yanbian Korean, Several Theoretical Issues Concerning Language Contact, A Sociolinguistic Study of Homonymous Hanzi Words in Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, On Koreanology and International Koreanology, and The Development of Koreanology. His contributions to Korean sociolinguistic research and the theoretical framework of Koreanology are significant.
Professor Luo Anyuan (born in 1933, Tujia) engages in the teaching and research of "General Linguistics," "General Phonetics," "Grammar Theory," "Miao Language and Literature," "Modern Chinese," "Bilingual Education," and "Computational Linguistics." He has served as the editor-in-chief of The Journal of Minzu University of China, the director of the Graduate School at Minzu University of China, the deputy secretary of the Ethnic Minority Education Research Association of the China Educational Society, the deputy secretary of the Chinese Ethnic Colleges Chinese Language Teaching Research Association, a council member of the China toponym Society, and an editorial board member of Ethnic Languages. He is currently the deputy president of the China Ethnic Minority Bilingual Education Research Association. His main courses include General Linguistics, Modern Miao Language, and Bilingual Education Research. His professional works include Introduction to Linguistics (co-authored), A Practical Introduction to Phonetics (co-authored), Modern Western Hunan Miao Grammar, A Concise Modern Chinese Grammar, Fundamentals of Computational Linguistics, Field Phonetics, and A Concise Introduction to Modern Chinese (volumes 1 and 2). He has also written numerous related papers. His personal theoretical insights include "Vowel Area Division Theory," "Miao Sentence Component Mobility Theory," "Miao Article Theory," "Bai Language Glottalized Affricate Theory," "Tujia Language and Chinese Sound Change Theory," and "Multilingualism in the New Century Theory." He has compiled teaching materials such as Practice Recordings for the International Phonetic Alphabet and Computer Teaching Materials for the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Professor Jin Daokuan (born in 1935, Korean) primarily engages in the teaching and research of Korean literature. He has served as a foreign researcher at the National Museum of Ethnology in Japan, a full-time professor at Gifu Education University, and a visiting and full-time professor at Osaka University of Economics and Law. His main courses include Selected Korean Texts, Western and Eastern Literature, Comparative Literature, Twentieth-Century Western Literary Trends, Modernist Literature, and Japanese. His major research achievements include A Comparative Study of the "Goddess of the Heavens" Stories in China, Japan, and Korea, A Comparative Study of New Year Customs in China, Japan, and Korea, Unprecedented Exploration and Confusion, Characteristics of Korean Literary Research in the New Historical Period, The Life and Culture of the Korean Ethnic Group in China, The Korean Ethnic Group in China and Ethnic Education, and Reflections on the Character "He." He is the editor of Selected Works of Korean Literature of the Korean Ethnic Group in China. His translated works include Selected Japanese Folktales, Spartacus, and One Thousand and One Nights.
Professor Has Erdeng (born in 1934, Mongolian) primarily engages in the teaching and research of ancient Mongolian and modern Mongolian. He is currently the honorary president of the China Mongolian Language and Literature Society and a council member of the China National Ethnic Language Society. His main courses include Modern Mongolian, Ancient Mongolian, Introduction to Linguistics, General Linguistics, and Mongolian Dialectology. His major compiled works and papers include Fundamentals of Mongolian (co-authored), Introduction to Linguistics, A Comparative Study of Chinese and Mongolian Grammar, A Concise Mongolian Idiom Dictionary (co-authored), Modern Mongolian (edited), A Comparative Study of Daur and Mongolian (co-authored), A Study of the Uyghur and Mongolian Inscriptions on the Alzhai Grottoes (co-authored), Characteristics of Ordos Dialect, On the Basic Dialect and Standard Tone of Mongolian in China, The Phonological System of the Chahar Dialect, A Comparative Study of Short Vowels in Written Mongolian and Dialectal Mongolian (co-authored), A Preliminary Exploration of the Xiaojing in Mongolian and Its Vocabulary, A Study of the Mongolian Inscription on the Great Ziwei Palace in 1240, A Study of Huayi Yiyu, and A Review of the Uyghur and Mongolian Inscriptions in the Dunhuang Grottoes (co-authored).
Professor He Xigeg (born in 1940, Mongolian) primarily engages in the teaching and research of classical Mongolian literature and historical Mongolian literature. He has attended international academic conferences in Mongolia on multiple occasions and has been invited to lecture at the Graduate School of Letters, Waseda University in Japan. His major academic works include A Study of Classical Mongolian Literature, An Annotated Selection of Classical Mongolian Poetry, An Overview of Mongolian and Chinese Works in Mongolian Studies, History of Mongolian Literature (college textbook, co-authored), and The History of Mongolian Literature in the Series of Ethnic Minority Literature in China (volume 2, co-authored). He has published more than 40 papers. His works A Study of Classical Literature and An Annotated Selection of Classical Mongolian Poetry have won the Beijing Philosophy and Social Sciences Middle-aged and Young Excellent Achievement Award and other awards. His research papers on The Secret History of the Mongols and The Legend of Altan Khan have attracted attention from peers, and scholars from Mongolia, Japan, and other countries have published reviews on them. His papers Revisiting the Life of the Famous Yuan Dynasty Scholar Shuo Sigui Wujieer and A Brief History of Biographical Literature in Mongolian have been translated into Japanese and published in Japan.
Professor Wu Puerjiang (born in 1931, Uyghur) primarily engages in the teaching and research of translation and Uyghur linguistics. He has served as a member of the National Translation Association, the National Turkic Language Association, the China Ethnic Minority Book Award Committee, and an academic consultant for the Central University for Nationalities' Literature and Information Center under the Ministry of Education. He has participated in the interpretation and document translation work for the 7th to 10th National People's Congresses. His main courses include Translation Theory and Techniques, Translation Practice, Translation Practice, Uyghur Rhetoric, and Oral Translation. He has published more than 10 papers, including On the Translation Methods of Chinese Idioms, The Object and Task of Translation Theory, and On the Formalist Issue in Chinese-Uyghur Translation. His translated works include A Concise History of European Philosophy, The History of Arab-Islamic Culture, and more than 10 books. He has also written dozens of short stories and novellas in Chinese and Uyghur and has participated in the review of important books such as Fifty Years of Xinjiang and A Concise World History. He has also compiled teaching materials such as Translation Theory and Practice.
Professor Ni Dabai (born in 1929, Han) primarily engages in the comparative study of the Zhuang-Dong languages. He has been a member of academic organizations such as the China Linguistic Society and the Buyei Research Association, as well as a member of the Southeast Asian Research Association at Arizona State University in the United States. His main courses include Introduction to Linguistics, History of Linguistics, Grammar Theory, Linguistic Survey, Historical Comparative Linguistics, Structural Linguistics, Transformational-Generative Grammar, Dong-Tai Language Research, and Introduction to Sino-Tibetan Languages. His major works include Introduction to Dong-Tai Languages, Lu Xun on Translation, and An Explanation of Dialects in Lu Xun's Works. He is one of the main contributors to the works Introduction to Linguistics and Introduction to Sino-Tibetan Languages, both of which won the Beijing Outstanding Teaching Achievement First and Second Prizes and the Ministry of Education's Outstanding Textbook Award. His early paper On the Origin of the Voiced Stops b and d in the Water Ethnic Group received unanimous praise from the international Sino-Tibetan linguistic community. His proposed theory of "language type conversion" has provided a good explanation for the affiliation of the Zhuang-Dong language family, and Western scholars have highly evaluated it.