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Wu, L. Review of “Yonghegong: Art, Religion, and Politics in Beijing’s Lama Temple”, by Kevin Greenwood, Dissertation Reviews, (March, 2014)


Wu, L. Review of “The Mother of All Monasteries: Gönlung Jampa Ling and the Rise of Mega Monasteries in Northeastern Tibet”, by Brenton Sullivan, Dissertation Reviews, (March, 2014)


Wu, L. Review of Shincho to Chibetto Bukkyo: Bosatsuo to Natta Kenryutei (Qing China and the Tibetan Buddhist World: The Qianlong Emperor who had Become a Buddhist King) [In Japanese],” by Yumiko Ishihama, The Journal of Asian Studies, 71:4 (November 2012): 1133-1135.


Helen H. Shen, Sicheng Wang, Lisha Xu, Shu Zhu. (2024). Teaching Chinese as a Second Language:Character and Word Teaching Methods. Beijing Language and Culture University Press.


Xu, L. (2017). Developing multimedia supplementary materials to support learning beginning level Chinese characters. In K. Borthwick, L. Bradley & S. Thouësny (Eds), CALL in a climate of change: adapting to turbulent global conditions – short papers from EUROCALL 2017 (pp. 333-338). Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/ rpnet.2017.eurocall2017.736


Facilitate Autonomous learning of Chinese language with social media enhanced pedagogy, Proceedings of 20th International CALL Research Conference 2019 Xu, L. (2017).


Teaching Chinese as a Second Language: Character and word Acquisition and Instruction (2nd Edition) (Lisha Xu, Shu Zhu, Sicheng Wang, Beijing Language and Cultural University) Journal Articles Lisha Xu (2019).


Teaching Chinese as a Second Language: Vocabulary Acquisition and Instruction (Helen H. Shen, Chen-hui Tsai, Lisha Xu, Shu Zhu, Peking University Press, July 2011)


Materials for Beginning Level (Ying Wang, Lisha Xu, Shin-Yi Kao, Lei Yan, CLERC Publishing, Jan. 2018)


Today’s World: Select Readings of Spotlight News, Volume I&II (Ying Wang, Zhijun Wang, Lisha Xu, Peking University Press, 2016 & 2017)