Chris Wen-Chao Li
Faculty- Professor
- Graduate Coordinator
Area of Expertise:
Linguistics, translation, media writing, Chinese, Chinese translation, Chinese Romanization systems
Speaks:
English, Mandarin Chinese
About Professor Li
Chris Wen-Chao Li is Professor of Linguistics at San Francisco State University, where he teaches linguistic theory, translation, media writing, and Chinese language. He lectured on Chinese poetry at the University of Minnesota and taught English at National Taiwan Normal University. He taught translation at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and worked as a producer for the BBC World Service.
Dr. Li received his doctorate in General Linguistics and Comparative Philology from the University of Oxford, where he specialized in sound change and Mandarin phonology. His current research focuses on diglossia, language change, language contact, and phonological translation.