QIU Bing, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Supervisor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University. She has been awarded the title of Young Top-notch Talent in the National Ten Thousand Talents Program (2018), and the title of Beijing Higher Education Young Talent (2013).

Ph.D. in Literature (2008), Peking University.

M.A. in Literature (2004) and B.A. in Literature (2001), Nanjing University.

(1) History of Chinese Vocabulary: Analyzing morphological evolution from monosyllabic to polysyllabic forms in medieval Chinese, with emphasis on language contact dynamics between Sanskrit and Chinese.

(2) Corpus Linguistics: Developing digital methods to study lexical changes in ancient texts).

(3) Language Contact: Investigating the impact of Buddhist scripture translation on Chinese vocabulary, including semantic adaptation and syntactic restructuring.

Author of three books, among which the monograph, A Multi-perspective Study on the Polysyllabic Lexicalization of Medieval Chinese Vocabulary, won the First Prize of the “Luo Changpei Linguistics Award” granted by the Chinese Linguistic Society, and the Second Prize of the Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award in Humanities and Social Sciences of Chinese Colleges and Universities awarded by the Ministry of Education.

Author of numerous Chinese and English papers published in journals such as the ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (SCI-indexed), Studies of the Chinese Language, Digital Humanities, Journal of Chinese Language History, Chinese Research in Chinese Linguistics.

One project from the National Social Science Fund for Neglected and Endangered Scholarly Research, one project from the National Social Science Fund, one project funded by the Ministry of Education, and two projects from the Beijing Social Science Fund. Additionally, she has also participated in multiple major projects of the National Social Science Fund.

QIU Bin, A Multi-perspective Study on the Polysyllabic Lexicalization of Medieval Chinese Vocabulary, Nanjing University Press, 2012.

1. QIU Bin. An Analysis of Motivational Factors for the High Degree of Disyllabic Lexicalization in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Translations from a Language Contact Perspective: A Case Study of Buddhacarita. Chinese Research in Chinese Linguistics, Volume 98, 2019-Issue 1,132-142;

2. QIU Bin, Fuwei Huang, and Qingzhi Zhu. A Corpus-based Evaluation for Intended Learning Outcomes of Ancient Chinese Textbooks. Journal of Chinese Information Processing, Volume 32, 2018-Issue 6,132-142;

3. QIU Bin. The Multi-Level Impacts of Language Contact on Vocabulary in Chinese Translated Buddhist Scriptures in Middle Ancient Times. Journal of Chinese Language History, 2018-Issue 1,86-95;

4. QIU Bin. Exploring and Analyzing the Contact-Induced Semantic Transferring Cases Based on a Sanskrit-Chinese Parallel Corpus. Chinese Lexical Semantics, CLSW 2018.

5. QIU Bin. Evaluating the intended learning outcome of ancient Chinese teaching materials with teaching-oriented corpus. Asian Language Processing (IALP), 2017.

6. QIU Bin. Dictionary as Corpus: A Study Case to Reveal the Statistical Trend of Polysyllablization of Chinese Vocabulary. In Dong M., Lin J., Tang X. (eds), Chinese Lexical Semantics, CLSW 2016.

7. QIU Bin, and J. Li. Reconstruction of uncertain historical evolution of the polysyllablization of Chinese lexis. Journal of Applied Mathematics, vol. 2014, 2014.

8. QIU Bin. Exploring the Characteristics of Cultural and Linguistic Exchange through the Evolution of Morphemes in Chinese Translations of Buddhist Scriptures. Chinese Culture Research, 2012-Issue 2, 191-196.

The monograph, A Multi-perspective Study on the Polysyllabic Lexicalization of Medieval Chinese Vocabulary, has received the following awards:

l 1st Prize Prize of the "Luo Changpei Linguistics Award" granted by the Chinese Linguistic Society;

l 2nd Prize Prize of the Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award in Humanities and Social Sciences of Chinese Colleges and Universities awarded by the Ministry of Education.