Huang Yaping was born in 1958. He has been teaching in universities since 1984, and now is Professor and Associate Dean of the College of Literature and Journalism, Ocean University of China. He is leading professor and supervisor of MA program in study of Chinese language philology in the college.
1980-1984, studied in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, where he earned his BA degree.
1984——1990, Instructor at Northwest Normal University.
1990——1993, studied in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Fudan University, and earned his MA degree.
1993——1999, Associate Professor at Northwest Normal University.
1999——present, Professor and Associate Dean of the College of Literature & Journalism, Ocean University of China.
2004——2005, visiting professor at Hanseo University in South Korea, teaching Chinese language and culture to Korean students.
Professor Yaping Huang has 28 years’ teaching experience in universities. He taught about 10 courses including Ancient Chinese, History of Chinese Language, Introduction to Chinese Culture, Semiotics of Chinese Characters, The Study of Writing in Broad Sense, Basics of Ancient Chinese Writing, Translation Practice of Classic Books on the Study of Writing, etc. to both undergraduates and postgraduates.
Since 1999, he has been teaching international students courses such as Chinese Culture, Ancient Chinese, Extensive Reading, Listening and Speaking, Newspaper Reading, Chinese Language for Tourism, etc. He has taught international students for more than 1,000 hours in total. From 2004 to 2005, he taught 5 courses to Korean students at Hanseo University, about 14 teaching hours each week. From 2009, he has taught 288 hours’Ancient Chinese to visiting students from the Department of East Asia Studies of the University Of Cambridge, and to international undergraduate students from other countries.
On top of teaching task, as Associate Dean of the college, Professor Yaping Huang has been in charge of programs development in the college. He organized curriculum designing for both undergraduates and postgraduates in the college. So he is very experienced in academic program development and curriculum designing.
Professor Yaping Huang was invited to make presentations at several international academic seminars and conventions. In 2005, he made the presentation of “The Re-establishment of Relationship Between Signals and Significations” in the seminar of “Schrift und Ritual in alten Hochkulturen Asiens und Amerikas (shanghai 2005)”, which was co-organized by University Bonn and Tongji University. In 2009, he was invited to the international seminar of “The Revitalization and Invention of Tradition（Bielefeld, Germany）” to give a presentation of “The painted tablets,hieroglyph and scripture to be chanted in the rite to propitiate the wind demons in Dongba’s religion”.
His academic research mainly focuses on Study of Broad-sense Writing and the study of the interpretation of Chinese classic documents. He has published about 40 papers, 4 academic works and obtained 5 academic awards.
Mainly monographs
1.Semiotics of Chinese Writing (co-author with Meng Hua)
2.Study of Broad-sense Writing？）
3.Symbol of ancient books and Power discourse
4.Basics of the Interpretation of Classic Documents
and so on.
Some Academic Papers
1．“On Rebus”, Studies in Language and Linguistics, 2007.
2.“The pictographic Characters in Hieroglyphics and Their Cultural
Meaning：A Comparison with the Inscriptions on Bones or Tortoise Shells”,
Oriental Forum, 2010.
3. “Some of questions as hieroglyph”, Journal of Ocean University of China, 2010.
4. “The form fashion of Shuangdun carved signs and the possible impact on writing evolution”，Journal of Ocean University of China, 2011.
5. “The comparative study between semantic compounds of oracle-bone inscriptions and that of the proto-cuneiform”, ZHONG GUO WENZI XUE BAO, 2011.
6. “The comparative research on pictographs of Oracle-bone Inscriptions and Sumerian Proto-cuneiform ”, Acta Linguistica et Litteraturaria Sinica Occidentalia, 2011.
7. “Dynamic Connotation of the Component Elements of Ancient Books and ‘the Concept of the Original Meaning’ in Scoence of Anonotation”, Journal of Northwest Normal university, 2002.
Mainly Awards
1.The Second Prize of Social Science for Colleges in Gansu Province.
2.The Third Prize of Social Science in the Fifth Session of“Xing Long
Prize”in Gansu Province.
3.The Third Prize in the Fourth Session of National Excellent Books.
4.The First Prize of Social Science in the Sixteenth Session of Qingdao’ excellent social science achievements.
5.The Seconde Prize of Social Science in the Nineteenth Session of Qingdao’excellent social science achievements.
