PhD. YONGSHENG CHEN
BASIC INFORMATION
Date of birth: 1981/12/05
Sex: Male
Place of birth: City of Laiwu, Shandong Province, P. R. China.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Chinese Linguistics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 2010.
M.A. in Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 2006.
B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 2003.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING AREAS
Comparative study between ancient writings (Chinese writing, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Sumerian writing, Mayan hieroglyphs); General study of writing systems; General Linguistics; Semiotics
PROFESSIONAL AND ACDEMIC POSITIONS
2010 – present, Lecturer of Chinese linguistics (Full-time) at Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Ocean University of China.
2014.9-2015.8, Visiting scholar at the Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown University, USA.
2007.8 – 2008.7, Instructor of Chinese language at Confucius Institute, University of Iowa, USA.
PUBLICATIONS
-PAPERS
1. A Review on the Comparative Study between Chinese Writing and Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Journal of Ocean University of China, Issue 5, 2011
2. Proposal for studying the property of Chinese writing from the grapheme perspective, Journal of Tongji University, Issue 4, 2011
3. On the Extension of the Ideographs’ Function in the Classic Ideo-phono Writing Systems: Take Chinese and Egyptian Writing Systems as Examples, Collected Papers on Languages and Writing Systems by Xuexingtang , vol. 2, Sichuan University Press, 2012
4. A comparative study of the differences between the methods of recording the sound of words of Ancient Chinese writing and of Egyptian hieroglyphic, Journal of Sino-Western Communications, Volume 3, Issue 2, Dec. 2011，ISSN 2153-0114
5. Phonetic Complements in Ancient Chinese Writing and Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Acta Linguistica et Litteraturaria Sinica Occidentalia ,vol. 5, Sichuan Literature & Art Publication House, 2011
6. A Comparative Study on the ‘Methods of Words Recording’ between Ancient Chinese Writing and Egyptian Hieroglyphs, doctoral dissertation, East China Normal University, 2010
-BOOKS
1. A Comparative Study between Chinese Writing and Egyptian Hieroglyphs, People’s Publishing House, 2013.
2. How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs (a translation from Collier, M. & B. Manley, How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs. The British Museum Press, 1998. ) , The Commercial Press, 2014
CONTACT: chenyongsheng@ouc.edu.cn