Dr Min Ge | University of Chester

Lecturer in Chinese Studies, Programme Leader BA (Combined Hons) Chinese

Dr Min Ge is a senior lecturer and programme leader for Chinese at the University of Chester. Before joining the department at Chester in 2016, Dr Min Ge has lived seven years in Ireland and three years in Australia, working closely with the Chinese Studies centres and Confucius Institute in three Irish universities and the University of Western Australia. He has experience working in international student recruitment at the university. Dr Min Ge also worked as a Chinese interpreter for Irish government bodies and officials, including ministers, City Mayors and the Chamber of Commerce.

Dr Min Ge teaches modules across the undergraduate Chinese programme, including Chinese language, Chinese history and culture, and Chinese business language. He also contributes to the teaching profile of the post-graduate course Research into Cultural Identities with the content of Chinese culture and society in the context of Chinese sports and policies.

Currently, Dr Min Ge co-supervises a doctoral student with a project on Mental Health and Christianity in Hong Kong.

Dr Min Ge’s research is focused mainly on Chinese sport economy, China’s opening-up policy and development and its impact on society and culture. His research is focused on Chinese Studies in general, Chinese sports sociology and socioeconomics in particular, and the impact on Chinese society and culture. He has also conducted research in the area of Chinese Studies from a linguistic/sociolinguistic perspective. Dr Min Ge's research interests includes: Chinese sports and policies, LGBT+ sports and athletes, diversity and inclusion in sports, Chinese language teaching and learning.

Book Chapters

Min, G. (2020). Asian mega sporting events - the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. In H. Fan, & ZX. Lu, (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Sport in Asia. (pp. 538-544). London: Routledge.

Fan, H., Min, G., & Liu, L.,(2015).The Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography. USA: Berkshire Publishing Group.

Min, G. (2013). Media and Sport. In Fan, H. (ed.). The History of Sport in Great Britain, People’s Sport Press: Beijing.

Fan, H., Min, G., Liu, L,. & Guan, ZX. (2013). China. In Hallmann, K., & Petry. K. (eds.). Comparative Sport Development System, Participation and Public Policy. Springer: Berlin.

Journal Articles

Qi, Z., & Min, G. (2019). Chinese Writing composition among CFL learners: a comparison between handwriting and typewriting. Computers and Composition, vol 54, 1-15.

Qi, Z., & Min, G. (2019). Square dancing: a multimodal analysis of the discourse in the People’s Daily. Chinese Language and Discourse, 10(1), 61-83.

Guan, ZH., Xue, L., CUI, W., Min, G., & Sun, G.S. (2019). A critical study of the long-term development of athletes in age-groups. China Sports Coaches, 27(1), 63-67.

Natalia Camps Y Wilant, Min Ge, and Marit Nybelius, “Report from the 15th ISHPES congress 2014 at Qatar University in Doha, Qatar”, 4 December, 2014.

Conferences

‘A comparison between handwriting and typewriting’, the 5th International Conference on Chinese as a Second Language Research, the University of Hong Kong, June 2018.

‘Chinese Writing composition among CFL learners’, the 16th International Conference on Teaching and Learning Chinese in Higher Education, the annual conference of British Chinese Language Teaching Society Annual Conference, University of Warwick & Coventry University, June 2018.

“The Economic Legacy of Beijing Olympic Games”, ISHPES Congress: Global Perspective on Sports and Physical Culture- From Past to Present. September 22-25, 2014, Doha, Qatar.

‘The Management of Large Sport Stadium’ in From Beijing to London: Delivering Olympic and Elite Sport in Cross Cultural Context conference, March 2012, Cork, Ireland.

China and the Changing Landscape of the World Economy conference, 2009, Dublin, Ireland.

‘Chinese Olympic Economy’ in From China to the Pacific Rim Post Beijing 2008: Geopolitics, Sport, Pacific Rim conference, March 18th – 20th, 2009, Cork, Ireland.

‘The Olympic Economy’ in ‘China: Back to the Centre’: second annual conference of the Association for Chinese Studies, in Dublin Institution of Technology, Ireland, February 2009.

The Rise of Asia and the Challenge for Europe: Irish Institute of Chinese Studies second annual international conference, Cork, Ireland, 2008.

China 21st Century conference, University College Cork, Ireland, 2007.