Li, Zhonghua

Name: Li, Zhonghua

Professor   Tel: 0086 18661951859


Education Backgrounds:

1. From 1977 to 1981, English Department, Shandong University, Bachelor of Arts

2. From 1982 to 1984, English Department, Shandong University, Master of Arts

3. Oct., 2006 to May 2007, Department of English, Oxford University, Senior Research Scholar


Career History:

From 1975 to 1977 working

From 1984 to 1992 Teaching at Ocean University of China

From 1992 to 1997 Manager at Hi-Tech Corporation, Sino-chem Shandong, China

From 1997 to 1999 Teaching at Engineering University of Qingdao

From 1999 to present Teaching at Ocean University of China


Research Interests:

Literature, Onomastics


Representative Publications and Achievements

1.“English Given Names with the Superlative Ideas,” English

Study, 2012, 5.

2. “On Blake’s ‘The Fly’ ”, English Study, 2009, No. 1

3.“Parker’s Salvation: A Study of ‘Parker’s Back’ ”, Journal of

PLA University of foreign Languages, 2008, No. 4.

4 “Generation Names in China: to be or not to be?,” Proceedings

of the 21st International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Uppsala: 2007.

5 “Given Names in China: one-character or two-character given 

names,” Onomastica Canadiana, 2005, Vol.87, No.1. 

6 “On von, van, de and of in Surnames,” International Journal of

Educational Engineering. Hong Kong Educational Publisher, 2005. 4. 

7 “Within Be Fed: Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnet 146,” 

International Journal of Educational Engineering. Hong Kong Educational Publisher, 2005. 1.

8. “Courage, the Quality to Embrace Death: On Hemingway’s

‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber’ ”, International Journal of Educational Engineering. Hong Kong Educational Publisher, 2004. 6.

9. “Time Passes but Art Stays: A Brief Study of Two of 

Shakespeare’s Sonnets,” International Journal of Educational Engineering, 2004, 4.

10 “Family Name: the Sign of Culture,” International Journal of

Educational Engineering. Hong Kong, Educational Publisher, 2004. 2.

11 “Chinese Family Names and English Family Names,” A Garland 

of Names: Selected Papers of the 40th Names Institute, (New York: Cummings & Hathaway, Jan., 2003). 

12 “English Surnames with the Superlative Ideas,” Foreign 

Language Education, 2003. Vol. 24.

13. “Generation Names in China: Past, Present, and Future,” Names: 

A Journal of Onomastics, September, 2002.

14. “Reflections on English and Chinese Family Names,” Selected

Papers of the Past Ten Years of the Scientic Chinese, Scientific Chinese Magazine of The State Science and Technology Commission, 2002. 

15. “An Exploratory Study of English and Chinese Family Names,”

Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages, 2001, 5.

16. “A Study of the Symbolism in ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro’ ”,

Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages,2000. 3.

17. “The Chrysanthemum,a Tragic and Pathetic Flower”, Shandong 

Foreign Language Teaching, 2000, No. 3.

18. A Dictionary of English Names, Shanghai: Foreign Language 

Education Press, 2002. 

19. A Passage to China,Qingdao: Ocean University Press, 2004.10 

20. Oxford Collocations Dictionary (the English-Chinese Edition), 

Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.8.

21. Chinese Culture and Cross Culture Management, Qingdao: 

China Ocean University Press, 2013.4.

22. Oxford Collocations Dictionary (the English-Chinese Edition) 

(2nd Edition), Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.1.


Winner of the Outstanding Achievement Award by Foreign Language Teaching Society of Higher Education, Shandong Province

Winner of Excellent Thesis Prize

Winner of Excellence Award for outstanding achievements of Qingdao Social Sciences

Winner of the Excellence Award of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Names Institute


Member of the American Name Society-ANS

Member of Inteernational Council of Onomastical Sciences-ICOS