Jane Parish Yang, Associate Professor of Chinese

Main Hall 418
Phone: (920)832-6956
Fax: (920)832-6944
yangj@lawrence.edu

Employment
2004-present: Associate Professor, Dept. of Chinese and Japanese, Lawrence University
1997-2004: Associate Professor, EALC, Lawrence University
1991-1997: Assistant Professor, EALC Department, Lawrence University
1990-1991: Senior Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, UW-Milwaukee
1988-1990: Visiting Asst. Professor, EA Studies, Oberlin College
1985-1988: Associate Professor, Dept. of Foreign Languages, Nat. Taiwan University
1983-1985: Asst. Prof./Ziskind Lecturer, EA Studies/Chinese Lit., Colby College
1981-1982: Asst. Professor, Dept. of Foreign Languages, Nat. Taiwan University College
1981-1982: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Foreign Languages, Nat. Taiwan Univ.

Education
Ph.D., Chinese, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A., Asian Studies (Chinese), University of Iowa
B.A., American Studies with a minor in Political Science, Grinnell College

Selected Academic and Professional Service
Project Director and Grant Writer, "Building Bridges Through Practical Chinese," internships in China NSEP project grant, 1996-1999.

Member, Executive Board, Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1999-2001.

Member, Curriculum Committee, 1997-1999; Chair, Foreign Language Coalition, 1996-1998, Lawrence University.

Talk: "The Rise of the Dumpling Queen: Recent Changes in China," Lunch at Lawrence Series, April 9, 1999.

Talk: "A Step Beyond Study Abroad: Internships in China" for Business Chinese panel, ACTFL/CLTA Annual Meeting, November 20, 1998, Chicago, IL.

Chair, "Business Chinese and Internships in China" panel; "Internships in China: Working with Corporate America" paper delivered at ACTFL/CLTA Annual Meeting, November 23, 1997, Nashville, TN.

Instructor, Beginning Chinese, Accelerated Learning Program, Wisconsin Center for Academically Talented Youth, Lawrence University, June-July 1997 [7 hours/day].

"Integrating Language and Culture with Authentic Reading Materials at the Intermediate level," poster presentation, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, April 13th, 1996.

Co-founder, Wisconsin Chinese Language Association of Secondary Schools, November 1995-present.

Panelist and Workshop Presenter, WAFLT [Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers] Annual Meetings, Appleton, WI 1992-1995.

Grant Writer, Institutional Enhancement Grants, 1990 and 1992 [3 yr. Chiang Ching-kuo grant awarded to UW- Milwaukee, 1991; 3 yr. Chiang Ching-kuo grant awarded to Lawrence University, 1993]

Selected Publications
Translation: "A Place of One's Own" by Yuan Chiung-chiung in Self and Location: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Stories, ed. by Kwok-kan Tam (Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1999), 265-280.

Translation: "A Fisherman's Family" by Cheng Ch'ing-wen in The Three-Legged Horse, ed. by Pang-yuan Chi (Columbia University Press, 1999), 55-61.

"The Image of the Family in Contemporary Chinese Children's Literature," Children's Literature (Yale University Press, Spring 1998), 86-104.

Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China, by Hualing Nieh, translation by Jane Parish Yang with Linda Lappin (first Feminist Press edition, 1998; originally published by Beacon Press, Boston, 1988). [1990 American Book Award].