The Chinese Reading World is supported by an International Study and Research Grant from the US Department of Education (award number: P017A050001; Principal Investigator: Helen H. Shen). This grant has made this project possible.
The construction of the project has taken about three years (from 2005 to 2008). The Project Director Helen H. Shen deeply appreciates the hard work and valuable contributions from the following teams and individuals in participating in the construction of this website:
鸣谢
Project Team
Current Web Designer and Web Master (2020-)
Xi Ma 马曦
Previous Webpage Designer(2005-2020)
Chen-Hui Tsai 蔡真慧
Project Team Members：
Guangyan Chen 陈广艳
Lisha Xu 徐丽莎
Jiangling Liao 廖建玲
Taiyang Chen 陈泰阳
Fengping Yu 余丰萍
Yulan Su 苏玉兰
Huimin Dong 董慧敏
Li Zhang 张莉
Jui-sheng Wang 王学圣
Lin Gu 顾琳
Xia Zhang 张霞
Ping Wang 王平
Ting Huang 黄婷
Weidong Zhang 张伟东
Ruifeng Wang 王瑞峰
Yi-Tzu Huang 黄懿慈
Xia Zhou 周霞
Huike Wen 文慧科
Yunfei Huang 黄云飞
Shu Zhu 朱殊
Jiaying Wu 吴佳莹
Qiang Li 李强
Jinglin Xiong 熊静琳
Technology Support Team
Tech Support for the Previous Website:
Steve Bowers, Information Technology Service, UI
Aprille Clarke, Information Technology Service, UI
Les Finken, Information Technology Service, UI
Gregory Johnson, Language Media Center
Sue Otto, Language Media Center
Greyson Purcell, Information Technology Service, UI
Andrew Rinner, Information Technology Service, UI
Tech Support for the Current Website:
Kerri Mead – Team Lead & Web Application Developer, Information Technology Service, UI
Harrison Gladden – Lead Technician & Web Application Developer, Information Technology Service, UI
Chris Dibbern – Web Application Developer,Information Technology Service, UI
Yan Li – Web Application Developer, Information Technology Service, UI
Vanessa Weisskopf – Web Application Developer, Information Technology Service, UI
Nick Goodman – Web Application Developer, Information Technology Service, UI
Project Evaluation Team
Professor Chuanren Ke (University of Iowa)
Professor Scott McGinnis (Defense Language Institute)
Professor Tao-chung Yao (University of Hawaii)
Article Contributors
The Project Director wish to thank
人民日报海外版出版部
中国国务院侨务办公室
中国海外交流协会
and many other Chinese local newspapers and individual writers for their generously contributing articles and photos to this project. Due to limited personnel resources, the project team is not able to contact each individual author to get permission for publishing his/her article in our website for the purpose of promoting Chinese study in the international world. If any individual does not wish to publish his/her work on this website, please write to helen-shen@uiowa.edu to remove the article from the website upon request.
Supporters for Project Proposal
The Project Director also wish to express special thanks to the following individuals for their enthusiastic support-letters to support her proposal for seeking funds from the US Department of Education for this project:
Dr. Randall Damon, Chinese department, Des Moines Central Campus
Dr. Mindy Zhang, Former President of Chinese Language Association of Secondary-Elementary Schools
Professor Chuanren Ke, the University of Iowa
Professor Stephen Vlastos, the University of Iowa
Professor Partick P. LIn, Defense Language Institute
Professor Tao-Chung Yao, University of hawaii at Manoa
Professor Phillip Lutgendorf, the University of Iowa
Dr. Biao Wang (王飚）前北京语言文化大学出版社主编，现北京大学出版社
Professor Scott McGinnis, Defense Language Institute
The Project Director is grateful to Professor Chuanren Ke, University of Iowa for his unfailing support including contribution of reading lessons during the construction of the project.