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Name: Dr. Zhiyuan Chen (陈致远)
Resident Country/Region: USA
Affiliated Institute: Appalachian State University
Position: Associate Professor
Geographic Focuses: Asia-China , America-Mexico
Fields of Interest: General , Community and Society , Culture , Economy , Education , Ethnic Relations , History , Language and Literature , Library; Archives; and Museum , Medicine , Music and Fine arts , Qiaoxiang , Philosophy and Religion , Politics , Relations with China
Contact Information: Mail Address: 428 Sanford Hall, Dept. of FL, ASU, Boone, NC28608
Telephone: (828) 262-7822
Fax: (828) 262-7079
E-Mail:chenzhi@appstate.edu
Academic Achievements:

1. Education and Career

2. Honors

3. Publications

Education and Career

EDUCATION WITH DEGREES

Ph.D. Philosophy June, 1995 University of Minnesota,
Major: Hispanic Linguistics Twin Cities Campus
Minor: Chinese Linguistics


MA. Philosophy June, 1988 University of Minnesota,
Major: Hispanic Linguistics Twin Cities Campus
Minor: Hispanic Literature


M.A. Linguistics July, 1982 National Anthropologic
Major in Linguistics Institute, Mexico, D.F.



Post-Bachelor, Spanish July 1982 National University of Mexico
Major in Translation (Colegio Nacional de México)
& Teaching Spanish as a second language, Mexico D.F.

B.A. English language Aug. 1985 National Cultural Administration
Institute of China, Beijing, China

B.A. Spanish language Aug. 1966 Beijing Foreign Studies University
Beijing, China.


EDUCATION WITHOUT DEGREES


Ph.D. Program in 1989-1990 Instituto Universitario Ortega
Theoretical Linguistics Program y Gasset, Madrid, Spain


Art: Painting 1985-1986 Art School in Beijing, China
Chinese water color painting


Ph.D. Program in Linguistics 1980-1982 Research Center of Linguistics and
& Literature
National University of Mexico
(Colegio Nacional de México)

Journalism courses 1980-1982 National Autonomous University of Mexico
(UNAM)

Spanish Language and 1979 Beijing Institute of Languages with
Mexican culture sponsorship of National University of
Mexico (Colegio Nacional de México)

Agricultural Economics 1960-1961 Department of Agricultural Economics
Beijing Agricultural University, China
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Honors

2005. I was invited to the reception “In honor of our Authors in Print” of
2004-2005 publication by the Dean’s office, the College of Arts and
Sciences.
2005. I was honored as one of the book writers of ASU by the Library of the
University.
2005. Honor for outstanding teaching at the Master Program in English Methodology, Ministry of
Publica Education, State of Puebla, Mexico
2004. Honor for outstanding teaching at the Master Program in English Methodology, Ministry of
Publica Education, State of Puebla, Mexico
2003. Honor for outstanding academic administration of the Master Program in English Methodology,
Ministry of Public Education, State of Puebla, Mexico
2002. Honor for outstanding teaching at the Master Program in English Methodology, Ministry of
Public Education, State of Puebla, Mexico.
2001. Nominee for the outstanding teaching award of the School of Arts and Sciences, ASU.
2001. Outstanding teaching in the Master’s Program of Teaching English As a Second Language Methodology, Ministry of Public Education of the State of Puebla, Mexico.
2000. Honor for one of the top-five papers presented at the International Linguistics and Teaching Spanish as a Second Language Conference, University of Havana, Cuba.
2000. March 23, Invitation of the reception “In honor of our Authors in Print” of 2000 publication by the Dean’s office, the College of Arts and Sciences.
1999. Invitation of the reception “In honor of our Authors in Print” of 1998-1999 publication by the Dean’s office, the College of Arts and Sciences.
1997. Distinction offered by the Ministry of Public Education of State of Puebla, United States of Mexico for my teaching English and English-Spanish Comparative Grammar courses in the 1997 Summer High School Training Program of Puebla, Mexico.
1982. Post-bachelor translator and teaching Spanish as second language degree with honors, National
University of Mexico (Colegio Nacional de México)
1982. Masters degree with honors, National Anthropological Institute of Mexico
1980-1982. Mexican President and Government Scholarship for foreign students at National University of Mexico
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Publications

BOOKS:


2003. Contemporary Multiple Cultural Americas, A book of the book series named Contemporary American Culture and Society. Beijing, China: The Social Sciences Academy of China Press and the Renming Publisher of Sichuan, Chengdu. ISBN7-220-06064-5/Z (384 pp)
2003. The Education in Taiwan, book chapter in Taiwan in the Twenty-first Century, University Press of America, NY. ISBN0-7618-2629-7 (11 pp)
2000. Mujeres virtuosas del Arenal de las Ocas Amorosas (Virtuous Women), a Chinese novel of a famous contemporary Chinese writer Gu Hua translated from Chinese into Spanish. Mexico city: the National University of Mexico Press (Casa Editorial del Colegio Nacional de México).
ISBN 968-12-0940-0 (195 pp)
1999."Lexical Cognition, Argument Structure and Culture --A comparative approach of relocation predication in Spanish, Chinese and English”, Germany: University of Duisburg,Press. (17 PP)
1999. “Argument Structure of Spanish Predicates” – book chapter of “Actas del Simposio Internacional de Hispanistas, 98, Beijing. Foreign Languages Education and Study Press, Beijing, China.
ISBN7-5600-1613-8 (21 pp)
1987. The Mestization of Mexican Culture. Beijing: National Academy of Social Science of China,
Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology (54 P.)
1983. Basic Syntactic Structure of Chinese. Mexico City: Mexico National Institute of Anthropology and
History Press (203 P.)
1982-1984: Series of "Rincón del idioma" for the magazine China Reconstructs. Beijing, China: Foreign
Language Press (59 P.)
1980. Folkloric Music in Peru: Their varieties and histories. Beijing, China: Music Press. National
Musicians. Association of China. (25 P.)
1975-1980. Series of "Rincón del idioma" for the magazine China Reconstructs. Beijing, China: Foreign
Language Press (135 P.)
1974. Text Book for Reading Technical Literature in Spanish. Chungching, China: Sichuan Foreign
Language Institute Press (162 P.)
1973. Text Books for Intermediate Spanish. Chungching, China: Sichuan Foreign Language Institute
Press
(257 P.)
1972. Text Books for Beginning Spanish. Chungching, China: Sichuan Foreign Language Institute Press

Book Chapters:

2005. Contemporary Chinese Literature Part. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Civilization, 1949-
Present, Ed. By Jing Luo. Greenwood Publishing Group.
2005. Taiwan in the Eyes of Chinese-American Scholars_ Critical Analysis of Taiwanese Society in the
21th Century. IV. Education & Culture: Taiwan’s Economic Takeoff and Education. Ed. By Lu
Shuming & Tian Xiansheng. Taibei, Taiwan: Xiuwe Press, INC.
(ISBN = 986-7614-74-7)
2004. Taiwan in the 20th Century. Chapter 8: Education in Taiwan. Ed. By Xiaobing Li and Auohong Dan.
New York & Oxford: University Press of America Inc.
(ISBN = 0-7618-2629-7)

ARTICLES:

2005. Neo-leftist Theory, Neo-authority Theory, and Neo-Liberalism Theory_ A debate in National
Socio-Science Academy of China”, Southeast Review of Asian Studies and VA Review of
Asian Studies_ A Publication of Southeast Conference Association of Asian Studies. Vol. XXVII. Ed. By Daniel A. Metraux. ISSN 1093-074X (11pp)
2005. . “Comunicación sin comunicación” (Communication without communication). Actas- II. IX
Simposio International de Comunicacion Social. Comunicación sin comunicación
(Communication without communication) 809-813. Havana, Cuba: Casa Editorial: Instituto de
Investigación de la Lingüística Aplicada de Cuba, Ministro de Ciencia, Tecnología y Medio Ambiente de Cuba. (14 pp)
ISBN 959-7174-04-9 y ACTAS (II),
ISBN 959-7174-05-7 (I)
2003. Sep. “Foreign Languages Training in High School System in Mexico and its Problesm”
Docentes, Puebla. Mexico (5 pp)
2001. Aug. “Wo De Lao Penyou: Gao Xing Jian” (in Chinese) (My old friend Gao Xing Jian – the First Chinese Winner of Nobel Price in Literature), Zuanji Baodao, Taibei, Taiwan: Zuanji Baodao.
(7 pp)
2001. Aug. “Jianku de Licheng” (in Chinese) (An Arduous Path_ the First Chinese Winner of Nobel Price in Literature), Gao Xingjian. Taibei, Taiwan: University of Taiwan Press. (12 pp)
2000. “Resourses and Supports for Overseas Chinese Studies in Hispanic Countries”, a
paper presented in the First International Conference of Institutes and Libraries
for Overseas Chinese Studies, sponsored by the Dr. You-Bao Shao Overseas Chinese Documentation and Research Center at Ohio University, By Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio, USA. (5pp)
2000“La crisis en la enseñanza de las lenguas extranjeras –La competencia gramatical
y habilidades funcionales”(Crisis in the Foreign Language Training – Grammatical Competence and Functional Abilities), a paper presented at the Second International Conference in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language, University of Havana, Cuba. (12 pp)
1999. “La estructura Argumental - Las evidencias del español en la relación entre la estructura semántica y la estructura sintáctica.” (Argument Structure – Evidence in Spanish regarding the relationship between semantic structure and syntactic structure),, Actas del Simposio Internacional de Hispanistas, 98’ Beijing, Beijing Foreign Studies University. ed. in Spanish. Beijing, P.R. of China: Foreign Languages Education and Studies Press of China. ISBN-1-5600-1613 ( 20 pp)
1999, “Improvement of Chinese Language Software by Morpho-syntactic and Lexicographic Methods,” Selection of Papers of II Pacific Computer Linguistics Conference, published by the Pacific International Computer Linguistics Association, Waterloo, Canada: University of Waterloo Press. ISBN 0-968753-0-7 ( 7 pp)
1998. “Argument Structure of Spanish Psychological Predication”, Selection of 1997 Mid-America Linguistics Conference papers, Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press. (12 pp)
1997, "Selectional Elements in the Lexical Conceptual Structure". of Mid-America Linguistics Conference papers Selection, Lawrence, Kansas:The University of Kansas Press.(22 pp)
1985. Linguistics studies and researches in Mexico, Linguistics Abroad: 85-4. Beijing: National Academy
of Social Science of China, Institute of Linguistics Press. (3 PP)
1979. Dancing and Music in Peru, Beijing, China: Culture Minister Press. (23 PP)


ABSTRACTS

2000. Abstract of my lecture entitled A Comparative approach of Foreign Languages
Learning in China and in USA. Xi’an, P.R. of China: Xi’an Foreign Languages
University Press. (1 P)
2000. Abstract of my lecture entitled A Comparative approach of Foreign Languages Learning in China and in USA. Xi’an: Xi’an Foreign Languages University Press, China. (1 P)
2000. “Recourses and Supports for Overseas Chinese Studies in Hispanic Countries”, a paper
presented in the First International Conference of Institutes and Libraries for Overseas
Chinese Studies, sponsored by the Dr. You-Bao Shao Overseas Chinese Documentation and Research Center at Ohio University, By Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio, USA. (I P)
2000. “The Cultural Unconsciousness and the Development in Modern China”, a paper presented at the International Symposium on The 21st Century and The Challenge of Sustainable Development. Washington D.C. (1 P)
1999. Abstract of the paper “Teaching Advanced Composition Strategies” presented at The 1998 Creighton Conference on Language and Literature. Omaha, Nebraska. (1 P)
1999. The abstract of “Una teoría caótica de traducción”, paper presented at “XII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de la America Latina”. Published by the Latin-American Association of Linguistics and Philology. Santiago, Chile: University of Santiago Press. (2 pp)
1999. The abstract of “El proceso de interpretación entre lenguas naturales”, paper presented at “V Congreso Nacional de Lingüística de Mexico” organized by the National Association of Applied Linguistics of Mexico. Monterey, Published by Mexico: Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon Press. (2 pp)
1999. Abstract of the paper “Teaching Advanced Composition Strategies” presented at The 1998 Creighton Conference on Language and Literature. Omaha, Nebraska. (2 pp)
1999. The abstract of “El proceso de interpretación entre lenguas naturales”, paper presented at “V Congreso Nacional de Lingüística de Mexico” organized by the National Association of Applied Linguistics of Mexico. Monterey, Mexico: Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon Press. (2 pp)
1999. The abstract of “Una teoría caótica de traducción”(Chaotic Theory of Translation), paper presented at “XII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de la America Latina”, published by the Latin-American Association of Linguistics and Philology. Santiago, Chile: University of Santiago Press. (I P)

1998. The abstract of the article entitled “Teaching Grammar Towards Language Proficiency”. published in the Journal of the Midlands Conference on Language and Literature. 1997. Omaha, Nebraska: Creighton University Press. (1 P)

1997. Argument Structure of Spanish Relocation Predicates, Abstract of Ph.D.dissertation at University of Minnesota. Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI), Ann Arbor, MI. Article in: vol. 56, No. 7. (DA9537848) (3 pp)

1996. The abstract of the article entitled "A Multidimensional Approach of Inter-Language Theory to Second Language Acquisition". published in the Journal of the Midlands Conference on Language and Literature. 1996. Omaha, Nebraska: Creighton University Press. (3 pp)

1987. The Abstract Case in Chinese, paper for First Mauricio Swadesh Linguistics Conference. Mexico: UNAM Press (1 P)

BOOK REVIEW

2005. Book review of “The power of Position- Beijing University, Intellectuals, and Chinese Political Culture, 1898-1929”, published in “ China Study”, USA. (2pp)

2005. “From Revolution to Reform_ A Comparative Study of China and Mexico” , published in the Journal “China Study”, USA. (2pp)

2002.“Mao’s Generals remember Korea War” Lawrence, KS, University Press of Kansas. American Review of China Studies. Journal of the ACPSS, USA: Vol. III. No., Spring 2002. ISAN 1538-6333 (2 pp)

2001. “Model Rebels – The Rise and Fall of China’s Richest Village”, Bruce Gilley, published by
Berkeley: University of California Press. USA: “ American Review of China Studies. Journal of the ACPSS, USA: Vol. III. No. 2. (6 pp)

2001. “An Orchestra of Voices --- Making the Argument for Greater Speech and The Freedom of the Press in the People’s Republic of China”. American Review of China Studies. Journal of the ACPSS, USA: 87-88. Vol. II. No. 1. Spring 2001. (2 pp)

PROOF-READING

2000. Editing and proof-reading of a series of translations regarding Great Father Mountains Natural Resources from English into Spanish (18 pp)

1997. Review of the book series of Chinese Contemporary Stories and Short Novels
in Spanish, project of the Department of Asian Studies of the "Colegio Nacional de México", Mexico: National University of Mexico Press. (123 pp)

1985: Editing and proof-reading of Spanish-Chinese Agriculture Dictionary. Beijing, China: Agriculture Press (340 pp)

1983: Proof-reading of Chinese-Spanish Dictionary for Beijing Institute of languages. Beijing, China Shangwu Press (836 pp)

TRANSLATION

2001. “Hijo del bosque”(A Son of the Forest), a contemporary novel of Jie Zhang, a famous Chinese
woman writer. Translation from Chinese into Spanish.
2000. "Virtuous Women", a Chinese novel translated into Spanish, Mexico: the National University of Mexico Press, Mexico city, Mexico. Translation from Chinese into Spanish.
1994-1995: Business materials between English, Spanish, and Chinese languages
1986-1991: Technical and business materials from English to Chinese
1982-1985 & 1975-1980: 445 articles about culture, history, languages, arts, sports, international relations, industry, economics, agriculture, commerce, tourism and geography from Chinese to Spanish for the magazine "China Reconstructs", Spanish Edition.
1982- 1986 & 1975-1980: Translated and did proof-reading of Chinese novels, short stories and poems into Spanish. Beijing, China: Foreign Languages Press.
1982-1986: Chinese films: A Town Called Hibiscus, The Tea House, Rapid Current, Waves and Sands.Produced by National Films Company of China.
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