Dr. Dali Tan’s Selected Publications in English 

 “STARTALK eTower: Increasing Chinese Language and Cultural Proficiency Through Open Access Online Technology” by Dali Tan, Angela Gunder, Shaoyu Chi, and Susan Picard in Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Second or Foreign Language: Emerging Trends, Lexington Books: Lanham.Boulder.New York.London  (2020): 1-16.

   “Pearls of Ancient Chinese Wisdom for Twenty-First-Century CFL Classrooms.” Explorations in Teaching Chinese as as Second Language. Cheng & Tsui. Boston (2019):197-211.

Building Global Communities: Working Together toward Intercultural Competence” by Dali Tan and Elizabeth Barbour. NECTFL Review 79. (2017), 197-212.

“The Power of Pattern Stories for Chinese Literacy” by Helena Curtain and Dali Tan. International Chinese Language Education. Foreign Language Research and Teaching Press, Beijing. 1: 1, (2016), 87-102.

“The Short-Term Homestay as a Context for Language Learning: Three Case Studies of High School Students and Host Families” by Celeste Kinginger, Qian Wu, Sheng-Hsun Lee and Dali Tan. Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education. John Benjamins Publishing Company:  Amsterdam/Philadelphia 1:1 (2016), 34-60.

“Discussing Emily Dickinson in Chinese: Lessons from the Cooperative Translation Project.” Laura Lauth with Dali Tan. Comparative Literature & World Literature. Peking University Press (December 2015): 184-198.

“Contextualized Language Practices as Sites for Learning: Mealtime Talk in Short-Term Chinese Homestays.” Celeste Kinginger, Sheng-Hsun Lee, Qian Wu and Dali Tan. Applied Linguistics. Oxford University Press (2014): 1-26.

“Exploring the potential of high school homestays as a context for local engagement and negotiation of difference–Americans in China.” Dali Tan & Celeste Kinginger. In Social and Cultural Aspects of Language Learning in Study Abroad, by Kinginger, Celeste (ed.).  John Benjamins Publishing Company:  Amsterdam/Philadelphia. (August 2013): 155-177.

“Criteria to Guide Textbook Decisions: Reflections from a Classroom Teacher and Teacher Trainer.” Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language.  Nanjing:  Nanjing University Press ( April 2011):54-69.

“Study Abroad in China: Transformation of Students’ Perspectives on the World and Themselves.” Study Abroad in the Chinese Context, Beijing:  Peking University Press. (January 2008): 267-281.

“Roundtable on the Fourth World Conference on Women and the NGO Forum, 1995.” Co-authored with Sharon K. Hom, Ma Yuanxi, Wang Zheng and Zhong Xueping. Chinese Women Traversing Diaspora: Memoirs, Essays, and Poetry. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. (1999): 211-241.

“Negotiating Cultural and Linguistic Differences in Translation through Transformation.” and “A Few Words on Translating Emily Dickinson into Chinese.” The Emily Dickinson Journal. (1997): 30-35 and  114-118.

“Keeping Chinese Girls in School: Effective Strategies from Hubei Province” by Dali Tan and Dawei Tan. The American Association of University Women Educational Foundation, Washington, DC, 1995.

“Reception Studies and the Politics of Canon Formation: Bing Xin and Tagore: Guo Moruo and Whitman.” American Comparative Literature Association Bulletin 24.2 (Spring/Summer, 1993): 104-121.

“Power Relations in Influence and Reception Studies: Bing Xin and Mirror-lyric Poetry.” Michigan Feminist Studies (Spring 1993): 35-51.

“Post-Colonial Discourse and the Handmaid’s Tale.” Semiotics 1991: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America. J. Deely and T. Prewitt Eds. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America (1993): 169-175.

“Chinese Women Writers and Western Lyric-love Poetry.” Comparative Literature in Canada 23.2 (Fall 1992): 73-75.

“Sexism in the Chinese Language.” National Women’s Studies Association Journal 2.4 (autumn, 1990): 635-639.

“The Warped Characters and the Abnormal Rebellions–A comparison between Lu Xun’s Ah Q and Dostoyevsky’s Underground Man.” Border crossing–Comparative Literary Studies from China and Other Parts of the World.  Shenyang: Leaning University Press (1987): 102-116.