Liwei Jiao

Liwei Jiao is Senior Lecturer of East Asian Studies at Brown University. His research interests include Chinese phraseology, lexicography, language and culture, and language instruction. His publications include a series of Routledge dictionaries, such as 500 Common Chinese Idioms , 500 Common Chinese Proverbs and Colloquial Expressions , and A Cultural Dictionary of the Chinese Language . He has also contributed three entries, including one on Yuen Ren Chao, to the Encyclopedia of China ...See more

Liwei Jiao is Senior Lecturer of East Asian Studies at Brown University. His research interests include Chinese phraseology, lexicography, language and culture, and language instruction. His publications include a series of Routledge dictionaries, such as 500 Common Chinese Idioms , 500 Common Chinese Proverbs and Colloquial Expressions , and A Cultural Dictionary of the Chinese Language . He has also contributed three entries, including one on Yuen Ren Chao, to the Encyclopedia of China (third edition, 2022). See less