This book is the culmination of Chen's collection, selection, and editing of video materials over a decade. It reflects a combination of her teaching experiences at three universities and continual deliberation and revision.
Due to the many changes over the past two decades, the bilingual courses Chen now teaches at Cornell University and NYU Shanghai differ greatly from the Business Chinese courses she taught at the beginning of my teaching career. Although language instruction is still important, the business component -- often informed by knowledge of history and culture -- has become central to the course.
About the Author
Chen Zhihong is a Research Professor at NYU Shanghai. She is currently holding professorships at both NYU Shanghai and Cornell University. She joined Cornell in 2005 and NYU Shanghai in 2014. She also was Senior Research Fellow at London School of Economics and taught at University of Virginia in 2001-2005. She was trained in three countries and in three different fields: She received her BA in German language and literature from Beijing Foreign Language College, and her first MA in International Studies from Beijing Normal University. She then received her second MA and a Doctor of Philosophy in International History and Sinology from Cologne University in Germany.