Research Strengths

Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies
- Applied linguistics, with special reference to Bilingualism and Communication, Corporate Communication, Language Assessment and Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
- Chinese and East Asian Linguistics
- Computational and Corpus Linguistics
- Neurocognitive Studies of Language and Clinical Linguistics
- Translation and Interpreting Studies

Department of Chinese Culture
- Art History, Visual Culture, and Media Studies in Greater China and Asia
- China’s Cultural and Political Interactions with Other Parts of Asia
- Chinese Government and Society in Imperial China
- Chinese Literature and Cultural History
- Ethnic Relations in China
- Modern Chinese Intellectual and Political History
- Neo-Confucian Philosophy and Learning
- Traditional Chinese Intellectual and Religious History

Department of English
- Language and Professional Communication
- Language Teaching and Learning
- Linguistics, English Language, and Systemic Functional Linguistics
- Media and Communication
- Area Studies and Intercultural Communication