- Ching-I Tu
- Emeritus Professor of Chinese and East Asian Studies
- citu@alc.rutgers.edu
- Notes: Founding Director of the Confucius Institute of Rutgers University (CIRU)
Emeritus Faculty
- Richard VanNess Simmons
- Professor of Chinese
- rv.simmons@rutgers.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Website
Professor Simmons’ research focuses on the history, geography, and relationships of the Chinese dialects. He has received numerous grants and awards to support his scholarship, including a multi-year grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. Simmons’ publications include Chinese Dialect Classification—A Comparative Approach to Harngjou, Old Jintarn, and Common Northern Wu (1999, with a Chinese translation published in 2010), Issues in Chinese Dialect Description and Classification (1999), Chinese Dialect Geography: Distinguishing Mandarin and Wu in Their Boundary Region (2006), Handbook for Lexicon Based Dialect Fieldwork (2006), and Shanghainese Dictionary And Phrasebook (2011).
Asian Languages and Cultures