Han Z. Li

(My name is variably spelled Han Zao Li or Han Li)

Professor


Athens, Greece, July 2008

 

Psychology Department
University of Northern British Columbia

 

Ph.D.

1994, Psychology, University of Victoria, Canada

 

M.A.

 

1991, Psychology, University of Victoria, Canada

M.P.H.

 

1988, (Master of Public Health), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U.S.A.

 

 

 

 

 

Awards and Distinctions

 

  • Top paper award by International Communication Association (Dresden, June 2006).
  • Top paper award by International Communication Association (Seoul, July 2002).

Areas of Research

  • Cross-Cultural Psychology/Communication
  • Health Communication/Promotion

Book (Historical Fiction; peer-reviewed)

Li, Han Z. (2004). The Water Lily Pond: A Village girl’s Journey in Maoist China (252 pages, ISBN: 0-88920-431-4), Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

 

The Water Lily Pond is now translated into German (Der Seerosenteich) by Irene Prüfer Leske and published by Ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany (2008); ISBN: 978-3-89821-851-1; 261 pages.

 

The English Version                             The German Version

 

Chapter 1:  The Water Lily Pond

This book is advertised on the following websites:

ISBN   0-88920-431-4; Paper, $24.95; Key words: Women-China-Fiction:

http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwpress/

http://www.amazon.com/

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/

http://www.abcbookworld.com/

http://www.ibidem-verlag.de/


Quotes from reviewers:

"I was totally engaged by this manuscript (The Water Lily Pond). Han Li is to my mind more compelling (in comparison with Wild Swans) as she shows how the political changes, starting at some point in the late fifties and extending into the eighties, left their marks on ordinary people…I like the narrator, could hardly put it down and learned a lot."

"The Water Lily Pond focuses on the intricate blending of the young woman's life with the history of her country… The narrator's sweetness alongside her obvious intelligence is what gives the manuscript a special tone… It is this special tone that attracts the reader; we don't usually see the China of this period from the point of view of a rural woman who notices, among other things, the many ways in which girls and women are treated unjustly in a communist world… The narrative is engaging because it tells a personal story of life, but it is punctuated with many brief, sometimes didactic digressive stories, anecdotes and tales."

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"Han Li's The Water Lily Pond: A Girl's Journey in Maoist China stands out by its recounting of the everyday lives of ordinary villagers at the bottom of society during the turbulent years between the 1960s and early 1980s. ... Nowhere does the story's interest depend on exciting drama. Yet somehow the reader is held by it from beginning to end. ... Both in its content and style, The Water Lily Pond suggests to the reader the image of a water lily: unadorned, soft-hued, delicate, yet durable."

--- University of Toronto Quarterly, 2006

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"Han Li's The Water Lily Pond is a poignant narrative of a young woman who grows up in Maoist China. The author details the transformations that occurred during and after the Cultural Revolution. Threaded throughout the narrative are proverbs, parables and anecdotes. Embedded in each story are multiple tales that illustrate that there is no single truth; rather, there are many histories and stories. Han Li provides an unflinching look at the political turmoil while, at the same time, she evokes the timeless ribbons of the Chinese countryside. The author combines memoir, narrative, story and history, skillfully blurring genres in an innovative story."

--- The Fiddlehead, Atlantic Canada's International Literary Journal, Autumn, 2004

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"Resembles the world of George Orwell's 1984; Gripping."

--- The Vancouver Sun

"The language is fluid and beautiful. The story of May-ping is colorful, entertaining and insightful."

--- The Regina Leader Post

"Arresting, compelling; it gives a persuasive critique of Mao Ze-dong's China."

--- The Edmonton Journal

"A jewel of a book; full of wisdom, love and the intriguing lure of possibility."

--- The Prince George Citizen

 

Selected Publications of Journal Articles (peer-reviewed):

All articles linked here are in Adobe® PDF format. To view them, you will need the Adobe® Reader® software installed on your computer.

 

Li, H. Z., Zhang, Z., Yum, O. K., Lundgren, J., & Pahal, J., (2008). Interruption and patient satisfaction in resident-patient consultations, Health Education: An International Journal, 108 (5), 411-427.

 

Li, H. Z., (2008). Improving provider-patient communication is not an option, but a necessity (Editorial), Health Education: An International Journal, 108 (5), 353-354.

 

Li, H. Z., Sun, W.X., Cheng, F.M., Wang, X.R., Liu, W.P., Wang, A.S (2008). Cigarette smoking status and smoking cessation counselling of Chinese physicians in Wuhan, Hubei Province. Asian Pacific Journal of Public Health, 20 (3), 183-192.


Li, H. Z., Desroches, N., Yum, Y., Koehn, C., & Deagle, G. (2007). Asymmetrical talk between physicians and patients: A quantitative discourse analysis. Canadian Journal of Communication, 32 (3 & 4), 417-433.


Yum, Y., & Li, H. Z. (2007). Associations among attachment style, maintenance strategies, and relational quality across cultures. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 36 (2), 70-85.


Li, H. Z. Sun, H. S., Liu, Z., Zhang, Y., & Cheng, Q. (2007). Cigarette smoking and anti-smoking counseling: Dilemmas of Chinese physicians. Health Education: An International Journal, 107 (2), 192-207.


Pahal, J. & Li, H. Z. (2006). The dynamics of resident-patient consultations: Data from Canada. Communication and Medicine: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Healthcare, Ethics and Society, 3 (2), 161-170. Download


Li, H. Z., Bhatt, G., Zhang, Z., Pahal, J., & Cui, Y. P. (2006). Defining relationships: Comparing Canadians, Chinese and Indians. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 9(3), 236-244.


Li, H. Z., Zhang, Z., Bhatt, G., & Yum, Y. (2006). Rethinking culture and self-construal: China as a middle land. Journal of Social Psychology, 146 (5), 603-622. Download


Li, H.Z. (2006). Backchannel responses as misleading feedback in intercultural discourse. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 35(2), 99-116. Download


Li, H. Z., Yum, Y., Yates, R., Aguilera, L., Mao, Y. & Zheng, Y. (2005). Interruption and involvement in discourse: Can intercultural interlocutors be trained? Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 34 (4), 233-254. Download


Li, H. Z. & Lundgren, J. (2005). Training patients to ask information verifying questions in medical interviews. Health Education: An International Journal, 105 (6), 451-466. Download


Li, H. Z., Krysko, M, Desroches, N., & Deagle, G. (2004). Re-conceptualizing interruptions in physician-patient interview: Co-operative and intrusive. Communication and Medicine: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Healthcare, Ethics and Society, 1-2, 145-157. Download


Li, H. Z. (2004). Gaze and mutual gaze in inter-and intra-cultural conversation in simulated physician-patient conversations. International Journal of Language and Communication, 20, 3-26. Download


Li, H. Z. (2003). Inter- and intra-cultural variations in self-other boundary: A qualitative-quantitative approach. International Journal of Psychology, 38(3), 138-149. Download


Peavey, V. & Li, H. Z. (2003). Social and cultural context of intercultural counselling. Canadian Journal of Counselling, 37 (3), 186-196.


Verde, M. & Li, H. Z. (2003). Are Native men and women accessing the health care facilities? Findings from a small Native Reserve. Canadian Journal of Native Studies 23, 143-164.


Li, H. Z. (2002). Culture, gender and self-close-other(s) connectedness in Canadian and Chinese samples. European Journal of Social Psychology, 32, 93-104. Download


Li, H. Z. (2001). Co-operative and intrusive interruptions in inter- and intra-cultural dyadic discourse. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 20, 259-284. Download


Li, H. Z. & Browne, A. (2000). Defining mental health illness and accessing mental health services: Perspectives of Asian immigrants. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, 19 (1), 143-159.


Li, H. Z. (1999). Grounding and communication in intra- and inter-cultural dyadic discourse. Discourse Processes, 28 (3), 195-205. Download


Li, H. Z. (1999) Information communication in conversations: A cross-cultural comparison. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 23, 387-409. Download


Li, H. Z., Fish, D., & Zhou. X. C. (1999). Increase in cigarette smoking and decline of anti- smoking counselling practices among Chinese physicians: 1987-1996. Health Promotion International, 14, 123-131. Download


 

Selected Conference Presentations

 

2008      Successful and unsuccessful interruptions: Implications for intercultural training, the 2nd  International Conference on Psychology, Athens, Greece (July).

2007     Grounding and Information Communication in Canadian-Chinese Discourse. The 57th Annual Conference of International Communication Association, San Francisco, USA, (May).

2007     Patterns of Backchannel Responses in Canadian-Chinese Conversations.  The 57th Annual Conference of International Communication Association, San Francisco, USA, (May).

2007     Listener recall in intercultural conversations: Is grounding a facilitator?  Second International Conference on Multicultural Discourse. Hangzhou, China (April).

2006       The dynamics of resident-patient communication: Data from Canada. The 56th Annual Conference of International Communication Association, Dresden, Germany (June).

2006     Interruption and involvement in discourse: Can intercultural interlocutors be trained? The 56th Annual Conference of International Communication Association, Dresden, Germany (June).

2006     The relational self defined: Comparing Canadians, Chinese and Indians. The 56th Annual Conference of International Communication Association, Dresden, Germany (June).

2006     Rethinking culture and self-construal: China as a middle land. The 56th Annual Conference of International Communication Association, Dresden, Germany (June).

2006     Backchannel responses as misleading feedback in intercultural conversations. The 10th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology, Bonn, Germany (June).

2006     Grounding and listener recall in Anglo-Canadian and Mainland Chinese conversations: Implications for intercultural training. The 10th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology, Bonn, Germany (June).

2005     Asymmetrical talk between physicians and patients. The 55th Annual Conference of International Communication Association, New York, U.S.A. (May).

2005     Patient training and patient satisfaction: Data from Canada. The 55th Annual Conference of International Communication Association, New York, U.S.A. (May).

2005     Communicating self-other boundary: Comparing Canadians and Chinese. The 55th Annual Conference of International Communication Association, New York, U.S.A. (May).

2005     China is more similar to Canadians than Indians: Self-construal. The 6th Biennial Conference of the Asian Association of Social Psychology, Wellington, New Zealand (April).

2005     Does Chinese gaze differently from Canadians? The 6th Biennial Conference of the Asian Association of Social Psychology, Wellington, New Zealand (April).

2005     Physicians and patients: Who interrupt whom and how? The IX International Symposium on Social Communication, Santiago De Cuba, Cuba (Jan.).

2005     Does grounding facilitate information communication? The IX International Symposium on Social Communication, Santiago De Cuba, Cuba (Jan.).

2004     Self-other connectedness in samples from China, India and Canada. The 28th International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China (August).

2004     Self-other boundary: A qualitative-quantitative approach. The 28th International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China (August).

2002     Comparing interruption patterns between Chinese and Anglo-Canadians. Paper presented at the 52th Annual Conference of International Communication Association, Seoul, Korea (July).

2001     Gaze and mutual gaze in inter- and intra-cultural conversation. The 51th Annual Conference of International Communication Association, Washington DC, USA (May).

2000     Co-operative and intrusive interruptions in inter- and intra-cultural dyadic discourse. The 7th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology, Cardiff, Wales, UK (June-July).

1999     Grounding and communication in intra- and inter-cultural dyadic discourse. The 49th Annual Conference of International Communication Association, San Francisco, U.S.A. (May).

1998     Self-construal: A cross-cultural comparison. Paper presented at the XIV Congress of International Association of Cross-cultural Psychology, Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A. (August).

1997     Cigarette smoking and anti-smoking counselling among Chinese physicians. The 10th World Conference on Tobacco and Health, Beijing, China (August).

1996     Are immigrants using the health care system? The XXVI International Congress of Psychology, Montreal, Canada (August).

1995     Inter- and Intra-cultural Information Transmission. The 45th Annual Conference of International Communication Association. Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. (May).


You may contact Dr. Han Z. Li at

Department of Psychology
University of Northern B.C.


3333 University Way
Prince George, B. C.
V2N 4Z9, Canada
Phone (250)-960-6502
Fax (250)-960-5744
E-mail lih@unbc.ca

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