Tao Peng

Tao Peng
Teaching Assistant Professor in the Chinese Language
Core Faculty
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Tao Peng (彭涛) specializes in modern Chinese fiction, with a focus on the relationship between language and literature. Prior to joining the faculty at George Washington University, Dr. Peng taught Chinese language courses at Columbia University, Princeton University, Middlebury Chinese School, and the Princeton in Beijing (PiB) program.
Modern Chinese fiction, narratology, Chinese linguistics; Chinese language pedagogy
CHIN 1001 Beginning Chinese I
CHIN 1002 Beginning Chinese II
Peng, T. 2025. Moderate Ideological Resistance and Ambitious Stylistic Innovation: Wang Zengqi’s Rewriting of Pu Songling’s Liaozhai Stories. Chinese Literature Essays Articles Reviews (CLEAR). (In press).
Peng, T. 2025. Developing Elementary Chinese Language Textbooks as Fictional Writing: An Evaluation of Two Widely Used Elementary Chinese Textbooks in the United States. TCSOL Studies 华文教学与研究 99:3, pp. 80-88. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16131/j.cnki.cn44-1669/g4.2025.03.005
Peng, T. 2025. From Understanding to Appreciation: A Discussion on Aesthetic Reading and Translation Exercise in Advanced Chinese Classrooms in the AI Era. Chinese as a Second Language 60:1, pp. 55-68. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1075/csl.00067.pen
Peng, T. 2024 Modernist Techniques in Wang Zengqi’s Fiction from the 1940s to the 1980s, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Vol. 36 (2), 311-343. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/mclc.2024.0060
Peng,T. 2022 How to Teach Sayable Chinese in the Advanced Chinese Classroom: A Case Study of Lu Xun. Chinese as a Second Language 57:3, pp. 189-210. (In Chinese). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/csl.00028.pen
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of California, Riverside.
Ed.M. in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Beijing Language and Culture University
B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature, Hunan Normal University