Your professor

Professor Lu-sheng Chong (Zhong Lusheng in Mainland China's pinyin) is the director of the Chinese Cultural Learning Center.

Professor Chong graduated from the National Taiwan Normal University majoring in Chinese language and literature in the 50s.  He studied linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington DC in the 60s, received a Master's degree in Education from Seattle University in the 70s, and got his doctoral degree from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, with an emphasis on foreign language teaching through new technology in the 80s.

He has been teaching since 1951 and teaching Chinese as a second language since 1956. He has taught at National Taiwan Normal University, the University of Washington, and several other colleges in the Northwest.

He is the author of Mandarin Phonetics, a college textbook, as was one of the editors of Selections of Chinese Literature.  He was also on the editorial board of A New Practical Chinese-English Dictionary, and has produced other publications as well.