Halliday and Chinese Linguistics: The Full Circle

Hu Zhuanglin, China’s famous linguist, is Senior Professor at Peking University, former Dean of the English Language and Literature department at Peking University, Professor at the Foreign Language department of Tsinghua University, and part-time Professor at Beijing Normal University, Sun Yat-sen University, Nanjing Normal University, and 35 other universities. He is former Vice President of the China English Language Education Association, honorary President of the Chinese Society of Language and Semiotics, honorary President of the Chinese Society of Functional Grammar Teaching, and honorary President of the Chinese Society of Stylistics. His research fields include foreign linguistics, functional linguistics, pragmatics, stylistics, discourse analysis, English teaching methods, etc. He has published more than 200 academic papers and more than 40 academic monographs and has won many national, Ministry of Education and university-level awards for his papers, teaching materials, and teaching.