Bachelor of Arts: Chinese Studies

BA in Chinese Studies

The Chinese Studies program offers students a diverse curriculum centered on Chinese language, literature, culture and society. Its rigorous language curriculum stresses verbal and textual mastery, cultural competency, and includes courses in Chinese linguistics and language pedagogy. Content courses explore both ancient and modern Chinese literature, visual arts, society, history, philosophy, and economics. Content courses are taught entirely in English and do not require any Chinese language skills.

The Chinese Studies faculty stress both global/transnational perspectives and area/regional knowledge and linguistic skills, in order to best prepare students for a broad spectrum of future educational and career goals and opportunities.


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Chinese Studies Faculty

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Zu-Yan Chen

SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title; Director, Center for Theater Arts Collaboration

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Center for Theater Arts Collaboration

Research Interests

    • Pre-modern Chinese poetry and poetics
    • Confucianism
    • Translation of pre-modern Chinese literature
    • Language and culture pedagogy
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Nicholas A. Kaldis

Associate Professor; Director of Chinese Studies; TRIP Courtesy Title

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Research Interests

  • Aesthetic Cognition in the Fiction and Film of China & Taiwan
  • Psychoanalytic Theory and Chinese Cultural Production
  • Chinese-to-English Translation
  • Lu Xun Studies
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Chenqing Song

Associate Professor

The Linguistics Program; Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Research Interests

  • Chinese phonology
  • Historical linguistics
  • Tones in poetic prosody
  • Chinese as a foreign language teaching
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Shu-Min T. Kaldis

Lecturer

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Research Interests

  • Chinese Language Pedagogy
  • Chinese Stamp Carving
  • Bookmaking
  • Chinese Woodcut; Silkscreen; Lithography and Intaglio Printmaking
  • Watercolor Painting
  • Chinese Culinary Arts
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Hong Zhang

Senior Instructor

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Research Interests

  • Language and Music
  • Language Pedagogy
  • Vocal Pedagogy
  • Chinese Music and Culture