Liu Xiaochuan, Male, Han Ethnicity, Native of Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. He began working at the university in July 2002 and is currently an Associate Professor. He was admitted to the Chinese Department of Nanchang University in 1995, obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1999, and was exempted from entrance examinations to pursue a Master's degree in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the same department that same year. After receiving his Master's degree in 2002, he has remained at the university as a faculty member. He earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Central China Normal University in 2016. He is currently a faculty member in the Department of Chinese, School of Humanities, and serves as the Vice Dean of the School of Humanities (responsible for undergraduate teaching). He is a member of the Chinese Language Society.

Contact Email: liuxch08@126.com

Main Research Areas and Interests:

Modern Chinese Grammar, Linguistic Typology, Applied Linguistics (International Chinese Language Education, Sociolinguistics)

Courses Taught:

Undergraduate Courses: Modern Chinese, Rhetoric, Sociolinguistics, Modern Chinese Verbal Communication

Graduate Courses: Cognitive Linguistics, Educational Psychology, Curriculum Design for International Chinese Language Education, Chinese Teaching Materials and Resources

Major Academic Achievements and Awards:

Principal Investigator of National and Provincial Research Projects:

1.  National Social Science Foundation Annual Project (General Project): A Typological Study of the Directional Category in Chinese (15BYY135), Principal Investigator, completed.

2.  Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Research General Project (Youth Fund Project): A Typological Comparison of Chinese Adverbial Markers (09YJC740039), Principal Investigator, completed.

3.  National Commission Project, State Language Commission Research Project (Special Task for Chinese Language Resource Protection Project): Jiangxi Chinese Dialect Survey - Nanchang (YB1516A001), Principal Investigator, completed.

4.  Jiangxi Provincial University Humanities and Social Sciences Research Youth Fund Project (2015): The Asymmetrical Movement Phenomenon in the Chinese Directional Category and Its Functional Basis (YY1539), Principal Investigator, completed.

5.  Jiangxi Provincial Social Science Planning Project (General Project): A Typological Study of the Directional Category in Sino-Tibetan Languages(11WX55), Principal Investigator, completed.

6.  Jiangxi Provincial University Humanities and Social Sciences Research Youth Fund Project: A Typological Study of Modern Chinese Displacement Sentences (A Comparison with Classical Chinese, English, and Vietnamese) (YY0616), Principal Investigator, completed.

Representative Publications:

1.  A Study on the Omission and Appearance of the Modern Chinese Adverbial Marker "De", China Social Sciences Press, 2020, sole author.

2.  Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Sentence Pattern Research China Social Sciences Press, 2016, second contributor.

3.  The Second Initial Starting Point of Grammatical Analysis and Linguistic Iconicity, Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies, 2015 (04), second author.

4.  An Investigation of the "X-ren" Compound Words in the Nanchang Dialect, Central China Academic Research, 2017 (01), sole author.

5.  A Study of the Causative Construction in the Nanchang Dialect, Gan-Po Linguistics Forum (First Series), 2016 (12), first author.

6.  A Typological Study of Modern Chinese Word Order, Oriental Linguistics, 2012 (04), third author.

7.  Usage Statistics and Grammaticalization Path Reconstruction of the Directional Verb "Qu" in the Zuo Zhuan, Journal of Changsha Railway University (Social Sciences Edition), 2012 (04), sole author.

Textbook Compilation:

1.  Modern Chinese Higher Education Press, 2018, second contributor.

2.  Linguistic Typology, Peking University Press, 2015, contributor.

National and Provincial Course Development:

1.  National Quality Course - Modern Chinese, 2005, contributor (Ministry of Education).

2.  National Quality Resource Sharing Course - Modern Chinese, 2013, second contributor (Ministry of Education).

3.  National Quality Online Open Course - Modern Chinese Verbal Communication, 2018, second contributor (Ministry of Education).

4.  National First-Class Undergraduate Course (Online-Offline Hybrid) - Modern Chinese, 2023, second contributor (Ministry of Education).

5.  Jiangxi Provincial First-Class Undergraduate Course (Online-Offline Hybrid) - Rhetoric 2022, principal developer (Jiangxi Provincial Department of Education).

Provincial Teaching Awards and Teaching Achievement Awards:

1.  Second Prize for High-Quality Online Courses during the Epidemic Prevention Period in Jiangxi Province - Modern Chinese responsible person, 2020 (Jiangxi Provincial Department of Education).

2.  First Prize for Jiangxi Provincial Teaching Achievement Award - "Integration of Specialization and Skills, Combination of Learning and Application: Exploration and Practice of Talent Training Models for Fundamental Arts Disciplines", project holder, 2021 (Jiangxi Provincial Department of Education).

3.  Jiangxi Provincial High-Level Undergraduate Teaching Team - Modern Chinese Verbal Communication MOOC Teaching Team, responsible person, 2022 (Jiangxi Provincial Department of Education).

4.  Second Prize for Jiangxi Provincial Teaching Achievement Award - "Exploration and Practice of Internally and Externally Driven Cultivation for Master of International Chinese Language Education", project holder, 2023 (Jiangxi Provincial Department of Education).