Professor Tang Ziheng was born in Dalian, Liaoning Province in 1954 to a family whose ancestral home is Wendengxian, Shandong Province. He hold aPh.D degree in Literature.He was admitted to the Department of Chinese Language and Literature ofShandong Universityin February1978, and graduated from the postgraduate program in December 1984.Professor Tang then stayed on at Shandong University as a member of the teaching staff, and has been in the faculty here ever since. He is currently a Professor at the School of Literature of Shandong University, and a Dissertation Advisor for Ph.D students. He also is Vice President of the Shandong Association for Linguistics Studies.

Professor Tang’s primary fields of teaching and research are: The Chinese Language in Ancient Times, Vocabulary and Glossary in theChinese Language, and Organizing, Handling and Working With Ancient Books, Texts and Documents. He supervised, and is the principal investigator of the research project “A Study of the Foundations of Reasoning of the Structure and Formation of Words, Phrases and Expressions in Historical and Literary Allusions in the Modern Chinese Language and the Evolution in the Meaning of Such Words and Expressions,” a research project sponsored by the National Foundation for the Social Sciences.

Professor Tang has authored and published many significant scholarly monographs and papers, including:

· A Study of Ma Duanlin’sWenxianTongkao (A Comprehensive Examination of Literature), (a monograph,Revised edition)

· A General Study of the Grammatical Structure of Classical Chinese Writing, (a monograph)

· Miscellaneous Studies of Words and Expressions in Historical and Literary Allusions in the Chinese Language, (a monograph)

· “Characteristics of the Expressed Meanings of Words and Expressions in Historical and Literary Allusions”, (a published paper/journal article)

· “Characteristics of the Foundations of Reasoning of Words and Expressions in Historical and Literary Allusions”, (a published paper/journal article)

· “On the Phenomenon of Evolutionary Replacement in the Development of Vocabularyand Glossary in the Chinese Language”, (a published paper/journal article)

· “On the Effect and Role of Adhesive Combination in theFormation of Polysyllabic ‘Words’ in theChinese Language”, (a published paper/journal article)

· “On the Weakening of the Dependence of Words and Expressions in Historical and Literary Allusions on the Original Source of the Allusion”, (a published paper/journal article)

· “The Horizontal Merger of the Meaning of the Morpheme”,(a published paper/journal article)

· “A Number of Questions About the Phenomenon of Enantiosemy in Linguistics That are Raised by Considering the Various Meanings of the Word ‘Boundary’ (jie)”, (a published paper/journal article)

· “A Brief Investigation of the Meaning of the Phrase ‘Dahonglu Yu’ (Yu as the Grand Diplomat Official)”, (a published paper/journal article)

· “Finding a Linguistic Inconsistency in the ‘Books of Music’ Section of the Shiji (The Records of the Grand Historian)”, (a published paper/journal article)

· “A Brief Investigation of the Historical Reference to ‘Wang Tingkai, the Palace Guard Commander’”, (a published paper/journal article)

· “On the Actual Meaning of the Expression ‘fengxiangyingtou’”, (a published paper/journal article)

For his academic writings and publications, Professor Tang has won a Level-3 Prize for Outstanding Achievement given by the Shandong Provincial Federation of Social Sciences, and a Level-3 Prize For Outstanding Textbook/Teaching Materials given by the Department of Education ofShandong Province. The Teaching and Research Project that he supervised and in which heparticipated has been awarded a Level-2 National Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching.