Zhiyuan Li

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LI Zhiyuan joined the QUML Confucius Institute as a Chinese teacher in August 2021. She served as an English teacher in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications from 2008 to 2021. She holds a doctorate in Ethnology, a Master’s and a Bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature. Her academic interests include language teaching as a second and a third language, multicultural and intercultural education. She has published 8 journal articles, completed over 10 educational research projects sponsored at China’s national, provincial and ministerial levels. She has also co-authored 10 textbooks and 2 monographs. 

She has studied China’s ethnic group cultures and had field work in several districts inhabited by the minority nationalities in China. She is very passionate about the cultural diversity and intercultural communication.  

She is a certified advanced trainer in intercultural communication. She also holds a Teacher Qualification Certificate for Higher Education and the Certificate for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language PRC. 

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