Dr. Wen Cao is a doctoral advisor at Beijing Language and Culture University and Dean of the College of Chinese Language. His areas of interest include experimental phonetics and general theory in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. He is a board member of Phonetic Association of China and committee member of the National Acoustic Language, Hearing and Music commission. He was a winner of BLCU’s Young Teacher Excellence Award and was selected into the New Century Young Talents program at the National Ministry of Education.

His recent publications include Graded Chinese Syllables: Characters and Words for the Application of Teaching Chinese to the Speakers of Other Languages – National Standard (Joint Author), Chinese Teaching Audio Flipchart, Chinese Phonetics (CD), Chinese Pronunciation Course and other phonetics related manuals. He presided at the “Technical Acoustics for Chinese Learning” program (EU’s lifelong language learning project), “Chinese phonetics database for foreign students” and “computer-aided study of Chinese pronunciation system for foreign students” (Ministry of Education, major project), “Mandarin tone system research” (National Han Ban) and other national projects.