English Education Department, and/or Global History Center, School of History

Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100089

Email: suny_wood@yahoo.com

Education:

• Yangcun Normal School (1981-1984)
• Nankai University, MA in English & American Literature (1992-1995)
• School of History, Capital Normal University (CNU), Ph. D candidate (2006-)
• University of Vienna, Sept. 2, 2008-Mar. 31, 2009

Jobs & Experience:

• 1984-1992    secondary school English teacher, Sanhe County, Hebei Province
• 1995-2002    journalist/translator/English news announcer, English Service, China Radio International (CRI)
• 2002-       College of Foreign Languages, CNU
• 2006-       Global History Center, CNU

Courses Taught:

• Chinese-English Translation
• Oral Interpretation
• Selective Readings in English Prose

 Current Research Orientation:

Witch hunt of early modern Europe, global history, socio-cognitive approach to language and skill formation, translation studies

Publications:

Journal Articles:

• “Wolf Sch?fer’s Research in New Global Historiography,” in Global History Review, Issue 2, 2009, Beijing: Commercial Press.
• “Review of Wolfgang Behringer’s Weather Witchcraft Thesis,” in Capital Normal University Journal (Social Sciences Edition), No. 3 (Apr., 2007), pp. 24-27.
• “Prospects and Pitfalls of a Global History Approach to Early Modern European Witch-Hunt,” World History Bulletin, Vol. XXIV, No. 2 (Fall, 2008), pp. 37-41.
• (with Wang Yongping) “Polo and East-West Cultural Exchange during the Tang Dynasty,” Study & Exploration, Vol. 176, No. 3 (2008), pp. 220-224.
• “Translation of Historical Archives: The Case of the Declaration of Independence into Chinese,” in Capital Foreign Languages Forum, 2007.
• “The Holistic Vision in Translation,” in Capital Normal University Journal (Special Edition), Apr., 2007, pp. 114-120.
• “Review of the Movement of Globalizing American History,” in Capital Normal University Journal (Social Sciences Edition), No. 3 (Apr., 2007), pp. 72-77.
• “The Concept of ‘Nature’ in Lao Tse’s Dao De Jing and Its English Translation,” in Capital Foreign Languages Forum, 2006, pp. 530-538. (in Chinese)
• “Critical Reading and Translating: Two Cases of Misreading and a Reflection,” in Teaching English in China, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2005. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, pp. 89-92.
• “Imagistic Grammar of Classical Chinese Poetry,” in English Teaching and Research, Beijing: Science Press, 2005.
• “Vocabulary Acquisition in China’s Current Context of Bilingual Education,” in Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Beijing: Central Compilation & Translation Press, 2004; English Teaching and Research, Beijing: Science Press, 2004, pp. 246-254.

Conference papers:

•   Was Heinrich Kramer a Woman-Hater? presented at the 19^th annual WHA Conference, San Diego, June 27^th, 2010.
• Fantasia of Global Harmony, presented at the Symposium on Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 21-22 September, 2009, Capital Normal University, Beijing.
• Prospects and Pitfalls of a Global History Approach to the Early Modern European Witch-Hunt, presented at the 17^th annual WHA Conference, London, June 27^th, 2008.
• Global History and Witchcraft Studies, presented at the International Symposium on “Challenge of Globalization on Human Knowledge,” 20-21, 2007, Capital Normal University, Beijing.

Translations and editing:

• Georg G. Iggers, “Main Stages in Contemporary Historiography: A Global Perspective,” in Global History Review, Issue 2, 2009, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press.
• Dominic Sachsenmaier, “Global History and Critiques of Western Perspectives,” in Global History Review, Issue 2, 2009, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press.
• Thomas Bender, “Putting America into World History,” in Global History Review, Issue 2, 2009, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press.
• McNeill, William. The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000. University of Chicago Press, 1982; Beijing: Commercial Press, 2010.
• Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. Millennium: A History of Our Last Thousand Years, London: Bantam, 1995; Beijing: Commercial Press, 2010.
• Jerry H. Bentley, “What is World History Now?” in Global History Review, Issue 1, 2006, Beijing: Commercial Press.
•  Georg G. Iggers, “Ideas on Writing a History of Modern Historiography from an Intercultural Global Perspective,” in Global History Review, Issue 1, 2008, Beijing: Commercial Press.
• Eckhardt Fuchs, “Writing and Teaching World History in Germany,” in Global History Review, Issue 1, 2008, Beijing: Commercial Press.
• Ralph Croizier, “Art and World History,” in Global History Review, Issue 1, 2006, Beijing: Commercial Press.
• Paul D’Arcy, “On the Margins of History: Rethinking World History from a Pacific Perspective,” in Global History Review, Issue 1, 2008, Beijing: Commercial Press.
•  Tom Taylor, “Teaching with Travelers: Integrating Methodology into a College-Level World History Textbook,” in Global History Review, Issue 1, 2008, Beijing: Commercial Press.
• Luke Clossey, “World History in Canada and Its Implications for the Introductory Survey,” in Global History Review, Issue 1, 2008, Beijing: Commercial Press.
• WEI Guang-qi, DING Hai-xiu, “Township/Village Administration from the Late-Qing to the Warlord Period,” Selected Publications of Chinese Universities: History, 2005, The MOE Projects in Humanities and Social Sciences.
• Translate chapters 5 and 7, edit chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7 of Zastrow, Charles, & Karen K. Kirst-Ashman, Understanding Human Behavior and the Social Environment (with InfoTrac), 6^th Edition, Wadsworth Publishing, 2003; People’s University Press, 2006.
• Introduction plus Chapters 2, 3, 8, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21 of Handbook of the Sociology of Education, ed. by Maureen T. Hallinan, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2000; Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2004.
• G. Cairns-Smith, Evolving the Mind – On the Nature of Matter and the Origin of Consciousness, Cambridge University Press, 1996; China Translation & Publishing Corporation, 2000.
• TV Documentary: China’s Diplomacy (two episodes and dubbing of whole program), China Central Television, 1999.
• TV Documentary: New China (three episodes and dubbing of whole program), China Central Television, 1999.