Name: Zhao Xiaogang

Date of Birth: June 1963

Major: Chinese Language and Characters

Degree: Ph.D.

Discipline: The Study of the Written Chinese Characters, Historical Semantics

Education:

Graduated from the Department of Chinese of Northwest Normal University and received a B.A. in 1986;

Graduated from the Department of Chinese of Beijing Normal University and Ningxia University and received a M.A. in 1989;

Graduated from the Department of History of Lanzhou University and received a J.D.;

Current :

Northwestern University Professor, College of Liberal Arts .

Representative works:
1. "Shuo-wen chieh-tzu and ancient culture",1997   

2. "Discussion of Chinese Character",2005

3. "The Uzbek social economic and cultural",2007

Selected Publications:

1. Zhuna: an Ancient Qiang Word in Chinese Journal of Lanzhou University (Social Sciences);

2. A Study on the Perception of General Language and Writing of People in Rural Gansu    Applied Linguistics;

3. A Group of Chinese Cognate Words from Language Contact of Ethnic Qiang and Han  Journal of The Central University For Nationalities(Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition);

4. A Hybrid Word Developed in Ethnic Evolution and Language Contact  Journal of Guangxi University for Nationalities(Philosophy and Social Science Edition);

Led important objects:

1. The Tenth Five-Year Plan of the National Social Science Fund: Investigation and Research of Gansu, Qinghai , Ningxia Provinces Rural Chinese language applications;

2. Ministry of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences "10th Five-Year Plan": Study on Chinese Contact with non-Chinese ;

3. NEEA "15" research and planning issues: self-examination for the less developed western regions of rural extension and development of self-study Examination Survey;

4. Lanzhou University focus on curriculum construction projects: the Ancient Chinese;

5. Lanzhou University doctorate recipients financed projects: the 20th century Northwest Chinese Change Research

Participated important conferences:

Chinese Confucianism the Research Society Symposium

Cross-strait cultural and literary;

Memorial Lu were up to the 100th Birthday Symposium

Chinese text Society of Symposium;

Third Northwest Dialect and Folk International Symposium.

Awards:
1. “An up-and-coming star of  teaching” of Lanzhou University in 1996;

2. Second prize of the Social Science Research in Gansu Province in 1997;

3. Second prize of the Social Science Research of institutions of higher learning of Gansu Province ’s Education committee in 1998;

4. Third prize of the Social Science Research of Gansu Province in 1999;

5. Second-level talent of the "555 Innovation Talent Project" of Gansu Province .