The chop suey letterform in historical Los Angeles Chinatowns

Cultural authenticity in the linguistic landscape: Developing additional language learners’ critical intercultural understanding

Translanguaging as a pedagogical practice in Chinese language and (inter)culture learning

海外书法教学的第三空间 [A third space in overseas calligraphy education]

Developing beginning language learners’ (meta-)cultural understanding via student-led linguistic landscape research

Calligraphy education in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language

Linguistics

Asian and Asian-American studies

Chinese pedagogy

Loyola Marymount University is a top-ranked national university by U.S. News and World Report, which places LMU among the top six Jesuit universities in the country and in the top six private universities in California. Founded in 1911, LMU is a Catholic, Jesuit, and Marymount university with more than 7,100 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate and law students. LMU offers 56 undergraduate majors and 56 minor programs, along with 46 master’s degree programs, three doctorate programs and 12 credential/authorization programs. LMU’s intercollegiate athletics teams compete in the West Coast Conference with 14 Division I varsity sports.

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Loyola Marymount University

Global China

The Chinese Writing System

Chinese Calligraphy

Chinese Food Cultures

Contact:
Email: yu.li@lmu.edu
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Dr. Li's research interests include linguistic landscape studies, Chinese linguistics, Chinese language pedagogy, and East Asian calligraphy. Her recent work has focused on the cultural and social semiotics of the Chinese writing system. She is the author of The Chinese Writing System in Asia: An Interdisciplinary Perspective published by Routledge in 2020. Her current project examines the use of typeface as representation of group identity. Dr. Li coordinates the Chinese Program at LMU. Before joining LMU, she was a Senior Lecturer in Chinese, Linguistics, and East Asian Studies at Emory University. She served two terms as the Review Editor for Chinese as a Second Language (http://clta-us.org/publications/) from 2015 to 2020 and has served on the journal's editorial board since 2009.

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