Biography
Dr. Zheng Zixin is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chinese Studies in Xiamen University Malaysia. He graduated with a PhD in Chinese Language and Literature from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests lie primarily in Chinese Dialectology, theoretical approaches to the study of Chinese dialects.
Research Interest
Chinese Dialectology, Chinese Syntax.
Educational Background
- PhD (Chinese Language and Literature), Department of Chinese Language and Literature, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (2025)
MA (Chinese Philology), Xiamen University (2022)
BA (Chinese Studies), Xiamen University Malaysia (2019)
Working Experience
Teaching Assistant, College of Humanities, Xiamen University, China (2019 to 2022)
Representative Publications
Zixin Zheng, “A Study on the Reduplication Patterns of Adjectives in the Southern Min Dialect——Taking Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Taipei and Penang as Examples,” Journal of Malaysian Chinese Studies, Volume 34, 2025.
Zixin Zheng, “Tag Questions in the Southern Min Dialect [PhD thesis],” the Chinese University of Hong Kong, August 2025.
Zixin Zheng, “Tag Questions in the Southern Min Dialect,” Proceedings of Chinese Language and Literature International PhD Forum: The Inheritance, Integration and Innovation of Chinese Linguistics, pp. 30-41, 25-27 December 2024.
Zixin Zheng, “The Syntax of Tag Questions in the Changtai Dialect [Conference paper],” CUHK-EHESS Postgraduate Workshop on Language and Cultural Contact Along the Frontiers of China, Ancient and Modern, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 27-28 March 2024.
Zixin Zheng, “Tag Questions in the Changtai Dialect of the Min Dialect [Conference paper],” The Second Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Postgraduate Forum on Chinese Studies: Theoretical Forefront and Practical Explorations in Chinese Linguistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 17-18 November 2023.
Zixin Zheng, “Three Interrogative Interjections in the Changtai Dialect of the Min Dialect,” Proceedings of the 9th Inter-Regional Forum on Dialectal Grammar, pp. 23-24, 3-4 June 2023.
Zixin Zheng, “A Study on the [eu] Type Rhyme in the Changtai Dialect,” Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Min Dialects, pp. 138-149, 19-20 November 2022.
Zixin Zheng, “The Documentary Value of A Grammar of the Ho-Lo Dialect,” Proceedings of Academic Symposium on the Process of Modernization of Chinese Phonology in East Asia, pp. 203-215, 5 November 2022.
Zixin Zheng, “The Study on A Grammar of the Ho-Lo Dialect [Master thesis],” Xiamen University, June 2022.
Honors / Awards
2022 Outstanding Graduates Award of Xiamen University
2021 Excellent "Three-Good" Student Award of Xiamen University
2019 Academic Excellence Award of Chinese Studies Department in Xiamen University Malaysia
2018 Xiamen University Malaysia Distinction Award in the Academic Year 2018
2018 Second Prize in the 2nd International Chinese Proficiency Competition
2017 Xiamen University Malaysia Distinction Award in the Academic Year 2017