My research interest extends from my doctoral dissertation on educational policy to governmental concerns and real-life teaching practice of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching and learning in mainland China. All the projects and subsequent publications I have worked on correlate with the macro and micro considerations of English language education. This area has a strong, meaningful and worthwhile connection to my educational background and the modernization of China. To the up-and-coming academics, my advice is, in Chinese, “顶天立地”, literally meaning, “to stretch up to the heaven and to stand upright on the earth”.
