Dr Tang Pui Ling received her B.A., M Phil. and PhD degrees in Chinese Language and Literature from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.. From 2001-2005, She worked in the Department of Chinese in CUHK as a Teaching Assistant. Before she became a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Hong Kong Institute of Education in 2007, she had been working as a teaching fellow at the Chinese Department in HKIEd for two years.

Dr Tang’s research interests include Chinese Language Education, Chinese Paleography, Ancient Chinese Grammar and Classical Chinese. Her most recent research is a study on the significance of Confucian and Taoist classics in contemporary Chinese language teaching. Since 2002, she has presented and published over 10 papers in edited books, journals and international conferences. The title of her PhD thesis was “The Exploration of Jia-ci ??in Inscribed Bronzes of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty”, and that of her M. Phil thesis was “Grammatical Research of the Chu Bamboo Manuscripts Xing-qing-lun ??? from the Collections of the Shanghai Museum”.

Dr Tang is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Key Research Area of Language Education and Literature (Chinese). Dr Tang is now a co-investigator of two research projects that are related to Chinese Paleography and ancient Chinese classics.