| 1970 |
Born in Shanghai (China) |
| 1988-92 |
Studied animation film design at the College of Fine Arts, University of Shanghai (B.A.) |
| 1993-2002 |
Studied linguistics and history of art at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) |
| 1997-2000 |
Student assistant in the project "Modern Chinese Scientific Terminologies", supported by the Volkswagen Foundation, at the Berlin Technical University |
| 1998-2000 |
Student grantee of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation |
| 1999-2002 |
Student assistant for Prof. Hans-Heinrich Lieb (FU Berlin) |
| 2000-2002 |
Student assistant in the research project "Theory and Practice in Chinese Alchemy", supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG), at the Berlin Technical University |
| 2002 |
M.A. ("Reflexive Verben im Deutschen: lexikalische und syntaktische Aspekte" ["Reflexive verbs in German: lexical and syntactical aspects"]) |
| 2009 |
Ph.D. at Freie Universität Berlin ("Reflexivität im Chinesischen") |
