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Dr Richard Sjoquist
Rick holds a Ph.D in Curriculum Studies and Comparative Education from The University of Hawaii at Manoa. He was a L1 and L2 English and social science educator for 38 years. He previously served as a textbook writer for the English Division of the People's Education Press, as a grant program researcher at Peking University, and as a Foreign Expert at Beijing Normal University, and the Foreign Affairs College. His research focused on the educational needs and experiences of mainland Chinese senior middle school and university students. He also taught at The University of Hawai'i at Manoa, and at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a graduate in History and English from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Publications include a new series of extensive readers for high school students in China (now in its 5th printing), a co-authored culturally collaborative textbook series, also for senior middle school students, and an edited bilingual primer on performance assessment for Chinese teachers of EFL. He more recently resided in South Korea, teaching both Korean and American college-bound students. He is now semi-retired and has just launched a young adult novel, "A Plum Blossom in Winter," set in contemporary Beijing.
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