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

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                         

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

Professor Chuanren Ke (University of Iowa)

Professor Scott McGinnis (Defense Language Institute)

Professor Tao-chung Yao (University of Hawaii)

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. 

 

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.