People
Faculty
LuMing Mao
Titles
- Director of Graduate Studies
- Professor
- Adjunct Professor of English at Shanghai University
Education
- Ph. D., University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), August 1992
- M.A., University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), January 1989
- B.A., East China Normal University, July 1982
Teaching Interests
- History of rhetorics and comparative rhetoric
- Ethnic rhetoric, Chinese American rhetoric, and Chinese rhetoric
- Writing in multi-cultural spaces
- Pragmatics, politeness study, and speech act theory
- World Englishes and minority language
Research Interests
- Comparative rhetoric and Chinese rhetoric
- Asian American, especially Chinese American, rhetoric
- Writing in multi-cultural spaces
- Protest rhetoric
- Pragmatics and critical discourse analysis
Selected Publications
- “Studying Chinese Rhetorical Tradition in the Present: Re-presenting the Native’s Point of View.” College English 69.3, January 2007: 216-37.
- Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2006.
- “Principles and Rules.” Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. 2nd ed. Ed. Keith Brown. Oxford: Elsevier, 2005. Vol. 10. 103-105.
- ”Rhetorical Borderlands: Chinese American Rhetoric in the Making.” College Composition and Communication 56 (2005): 422-65.
- “Uniqueness or Borderlands?: The Making of Asian American Rhetorics.” Rhetoric and Ethnicity. Ed. Keith Gilyard and Vorris Nunley. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton, 2004. 46-55.
- “Foreign Language Education in the PRC: A Brief Overview.” (co-authored with Yue Min) Language Policy in the People’s Republic of China. Ed. Minglang Zhou. Boston: Kluwer, 2004. 319-29.
- “Reflective Encounters: Illustrating Comparative Rhetoric.” Style 37 (Winter 2003): 401-25.
- “Re-clustering Traditional Academic Discourse: Alternating with Confucian Discourse.” ALT DIS: Alternative Discourses and the Academy. Ed. Helen Fox, Christopher Schroeder, and Patricia Bizzell. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton, 2002. 112-25.
- “What's in a Name? That Which Is Called ‘Rhetoric’ Would in the Analects Mean ‘Participatory Discourse.’” Festschrift. Ed. Anna A. Grotans, et al. Goeppinger: Verlag, 2001. 506-22.
- “What to Say to Someone Who Pays for Your Service: The Use of Address Terms in the Service Industry in Shanghai.” Chicago Linguistics Society Proceedings (35) 2000: 81-88.
- “Social Implicature and Chinese First Person Pronouns.” Journal of Asian Pacific Communication (1996): 106-28.
- “Understanding Self and Face through Compliment Responses.” Language and Culture in Multilingual Societies: Issues and Attitudes. Ed. Makhan L Tickoo. Singapore: Regional Language Centre, 1995. 209-26.
- “‘Individualism’ or ‘Personhood:’ A Battle of Locution or Rhetorics.” Rhetoric, Cultural Studies, and Literracy. Ed. John Fred Reynolds. Erlbaum, 1995. 127-35.
- “Metadiscourse.” Encyclopedia of Rhetoric. Ed. Theresa Enos. New York: Garland, 1995. 437-38.
- “Discourse Analysis: Applications and Implications.” Pragmatics and Cognition 3 (2) (1995): 365-76.
- “Beyond Politeness Theory: ‘Face’ Revisited and Renewed.” Journal of Pragmatics 21 (1994): 451-86.
- “Idioms, Intertextuality, and Rhetorical Significances.” Textual Studies in Canada 4 (1994): 53-68.
- “I Conclude Not: Toward a Pragmatic Account of Metadiscourse.” Rhetoric Review 11 (1993): 265-89. (The essay was named Outstanding Essay of the year.)
- “Invitational Discourse and Chinese Identity.” Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 3 (1992): 79-96.
Work in Progress
I have two co-edited collections in the works: one, titled The Norton Anthology of Rhetoric and Writing and under contract with Norton, is with colleagues Robert Hariman, Susan Jarratt, Andrea Lunsford, and Jacqueline Jones Royster; and the other, titled Asian American Rhetoric: Histories, Theories, Practices, is with colleague Morris Young. My new book length project is centered upon the rhetoric of yin and yang in ancient China, upon how it regulated, controlled the body, the state, and the cosmos.