Research interests

Traditional Chinese fiction, Chinese film, Daoist and Buddhist texts, Traditional Chinese values

Teaching interests

Chinese language and culture, Chinese translation, Chinese business, traditional Chinese fiction and drama, Chinese film and society

Education

  • Ph D, Chinese Language and LiteratureUniversity of Wisconsin at Madison (1981)
    The Distinction Between Pien-wen and Chiang-ching-wen: An Analysis of the Literary Forms and Preaching Methods of the Overcoming Demons Story and Exposition of the Diamond Sūtra
  • MA, Asian StudiesUniversity of Oregon (1973)
    Biography of the Tang Eunuch Kao Li-Shih
  • BA, Asian StudiesCity College of New York (1971)