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The Comparison between Chinese and Western Culture

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About This Course

This course is a freshman professional course for English majors and business English majors in the School of Foreign Studies in our university. Western societies represented by Europe and the United States have been interpreted and historical and social origins of differences in ideology, culture and art have been analyzed. The course further manifests the similarities and differences between China and the West and interprets the humanistic connotations embodied in their respective cultures. This course emphasizes general knowledge and cultural comparison, and the specific teaching content covers some common cultural differences between China and the West in cross-cultural communication situations and deep-level differences between Chinese and Western cultures in social ideology, customs, music and art, etc.

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Course Staff

You Hongnan, female, associate professor, graduated from School of Foreign Languages, Southwest Jiaotong University in 2008 with a Master's Degree in Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics. In 2012, she was awarded Overseas Study Program of the "Young Key Teachers" by the Ministry of Education of China. From January 2014 to January 2015, she had a one-year study as a visiting scholar at the University of Idaho under the guidance of Scott, a famous ecologist.

In terms of teaching, she has been on the front line of teaching, teaching the different courses such as “the comparison between Chinese and western culture”, “American society and culture”, “western history and culture”, “college English”, “an introduction to the English-speaking Countries”, “advanced English reading and culture”, “English reading”, “science and technology English reading”, “selected reading of English newspapers”, “graduate students English”, “advanced listening” etc.

She has been awarded the honor of excellent teachers of Jiangxi Agricultural University for three times, Dabeinong Teaching Model of Jiangxi Agricultural University in 2019 and Dabeinong Teaching Elite of Jiangxi Agricultural University in 2020.

Lu Puting, male, professor, master's degree, is a professor of foreign Language Teaching and Research Department of School of Foreign Languages of JXAU. He mainly engages in college English teaching and British and American literature research. He was the deputy director and party branch secretary of a military academy of the PLA. He won the "Silver Award" of the PLA Military Academy Education Award, "Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Scientific and Technological Talents", "Outstanding Teacher", "Outstanding Party Member" and other honors of a certain Military Region. Over the years, he has published several papers in CSSCI journals, presided over or participated in the completion of provincial social science planning and educational reform projects, edited one textbook of the military academy, and translated several military internal materials.

Zhi Xiaomin, female, Han nationality, born in 1977, holds a Doctoral degree and graduated from Takushoku University in Japan. She specializes in language education and comparison between China and Japan. She is now working at Jiangxi Agricultural University as the director of the Japanese language teaching and research department. In 2018, her project "Diachronic and synchronic comparative study of Chinese and Japanese passive voice" (18BYY228) was approved as the general project of the National Social Science Foundation of China, and she participated in several Humanities and Social Sciences Research Planning Fund Projects of the Ministry of Education and the National Social Science Fund research. She has published more than 20 papers in domestic and foreign journals. She aced the annual evaluations for three consecutive years and was rated advanced at the end of several years.

Qiu Linyan, a teacher teaching Japanese in School of Japanese at the Jiangxi Agricultural University, has obtained bachelor's and master's degree in the College of Foreign Languages and Literature specializing in Japanese, Wuhan University with a Ph.D. in Hokkaido University. The research interests include linguistics, language and social culture. The main teaching courses are listening for Japanese majors, oral Japanese for tourism, oral Japanese for business and so on. Through strengthening the understanding of Japanese culture to promote the learning and use of Japanese language, and through Japanese language learning and practical use to guide students to deepen their understanding of Japanese culture.

Xiang Zheng was graduated from German University of Potsdam majoring in Sociology and education in 2010 and has obtained master’s degree. Since 2011, he has been a German teacher at the School of Foreign Languages in Jiangxi Agricultural University. The main teaching courses include German I, German II and German III. The teaching doctrine is “Only through education can become a person” (Der Mensch Kann Nur Mensch Werden Durch Erziehung). The hope to those who study the course is that everyone in learning can obtain happiness and increase interest in learning.

Li Lihua was graduated from the Jiangxi Normal University majoring in English education in 2001 and has obtained a master's degree. Since 2001, she has been an English teacher at the School of Foreign Languages in Jiangxi Agricultural University. The main teaching courses are College English I, College English II, College English III and College English IV. The teaching doctrine is “The main task of a teacher is to teach knowledge and nurture the morality”. The encourage motto for those who study the course is to learn, and then know what they don’t know. Try to obtain happiness from learning.

Wang Xia, a university lecturer of JXAU，was granted Master's degree of arts in 2009. Her main researches include: language and culture; translation theory and practice. Ms. Wang has been giving lectures on English language learning and research for more than 2 decades. The courses given by Ms. Wang cover Cross-culture communication; English-Chinese Translation, etc. With an aim to help college students know more about Chinese and western culture, Ms. Wang gives lectures on Comparison between Chinese and Western Culture through making contrasts of the differences between Chinese and Western culture.

Dongping Wu, lecturer, is mainly engaged in the undergraduate teaching of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry Experiment, General Chemistry, General Chemistry Experiment, Instrumental Analysis, computer Application in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. His research direction is in fluorescence detection, analytical instrument automation and other fields. He has presided over or participated in more than ten teaching and research projects at all levels, compiled several textbooks and published several papers. He is good at computer technology and video production. He is the technical director and platform administrator of this course team.