Wu Wei, professor from the College of Literal Arts of Jinan University, visited and delivered a lecture at Shanxi University (SXU) in Taiyuan from Dec 12 to 13, with the purpose of advising Chinese language teachers on applying for research funding from the 2018 national social sciences fund.

Born in 1950 in Anhui province, Wu has specialized in modern Chinese, Chinese dialectology and phonology research. He was previously listed as one of the top 10 teachers at Jinan University and has undertaken a national-level Chinese language research project, as well as publishing books related to Cantonese dialects.

Wu Wei gives a lecture on linguistics at Shanxi University on Dec 13. [Photo/sxu.edu.cn]