Dr. Yong Ho

Dr. Yong Ho is a Senior Advisor at Grouphorse, Head of UN China Study Program, and an adjunct professor at New York University. He holds a doctorate degree in anthropology/linguistics from Columbia University.

He is also the Co-Chairman of Renwen Society at China Institute and the Executive Director of the Chinese Language Teachers Association of Greater New York. He teaches as an adjunct professor at Nanjing University, Southeast University, Nanjing University of Science and Technology and Jiangsu Normal University, and has been hired by Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages to offer guidance and suggestions on its academic development. 

He previously taught in New School University in New York, and served as Director of Curriculum and Language at China Institute, and Chinese Language Supervisor of the UN Chinese Language Program from 2002 to 2017. 

He has published in the US: Beginner’s Chinese, Intermediate Chinese, A Chinese-English Dictionary of 500 Most Frequently Used Words in Chinese, A Children’s Dictionary of Chinese, A Practical English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary, China: An Illustrated History, and Aspects of Discourse Structure in Mandarin Chinese, as well as over 30 articles and papers in China.

Dr. Yong Ho has been awarded the UN21 Awards by the seventh UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2004 and the eighth UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in 2014.  

Mr. Lin Chen, Teaching Advisor

Mr. Chen is the Head of the Expert Group of the National English Curriculum Standard Development Program of the Ministry of Education, the Director-General of the China Basic Foreign Language Education Research and Training Center, the Head of the Expert Group of the Organizing Committee of “Beijing Speaks Foreign Languages” Program, and the Director of the Expert Group of the Committee of Chinese-English Translation of Public Signs.

Mr. Chen is also an Advisor at the People’s Government of Beijing Municipality, the Chief Advisor at the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press and an Advisor at China Daily.

Mr. Zhenjiang Zhao, Translation and Interpreting Advisor

Mr. Zhao is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Peking University.

He previously served as Head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature at Peking University, and Director of the Academic Committee of School of Foreign Languages of Peking University.

He is a recipient of Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic awarded by the King of Spain, Knight of the Order of May by the Argentine President, Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal by the Chilean President and Knight of the Order of Rubén Darío by Sino-Chile Cultural Institute.

Mr. Shaozhong Pan, Translation and Interpreting Advisor

Mr. Pan is the Chief Editor of New Age Chinese-English Dictionary (published by 21st Century Publishing Group). He is also a professor at China Foreign Affairs University entitled to the special government allowance granted by the State Council, a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Fulbright senior scholar (at Yale University), and a specially-engaged researcher at the Dictionary Research Center of the Commercial Press.

He previously served as Head of the simultaneous interpretation team at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Julie Tay, Senior Advisor/Translation Revisor

Julie Tay is clinical assistant professor with NYU School of Professional Studies - Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting where she teaches two master’s level courses, Commercial Translation, and Strategic Market Perspectives in Translation. Tay is a lifetime translator and interpreter working in English and Chinese (of several dialects) and has served over 20 years as language and cultural consultant in and around the New York area. Tay earned her M.A. in Anthropology (1994) from the City University of New York, a post-graduate Diploma in Education (1987) from the National University of Singapore. As an ethnographer, arts presenter, and educator particularly conversant with Southeast Asia and China, Tay has made numerous live and media appearances including a 2013 radio interview on WQXR 105.9 FM on Voices of the Lunar New Year, performance and interview in the Ebru.TV Series, Roots & Rhythm (in 2009), and in 2001 a credited contribution to the post-9/11 documentary initiative, “Harmony & Spirit – Chinese Americans in New York,” aired on WNET. In Nov 2015, Tay represented the NYU Translation Program to in a panel presentation, ‘Discover the Translator’s Inner Technologist’ at the ATA 56th Conference. Tay’s long-term research is in oral traditions and urban folk associations; in May 2016, she spoke on “Who Translates What: A return to subjectivity and other sustainability issues in translation” at the New England Translators’ Association. In June 2016, she was guest speaker on “Challenges and Opportunities for the “C-E” Translator Today” at Shanghai Jiaotong University and Nanjing Southeast University. In September 2017, she served on the Panel “Place-making through Food and Language” at the New York Folklore Society Symposium.  Julie is currently collaborating with former student Liu Mandi co-translating/editing Dr. Liping Liao’s award-winning Rang Ni Bu Shengbing (How Not to Get Sick), a compendium on traditional Chinese medicine for popular readership.