Liwei Jiao is Lecturer of Chinese at Brown University, USA. Besides his rich experience of teaching Chinese at various levels at Renmin University of China, the University of Durham and University of Pennsylvania for 20 years, he publishes extensively in Chinese phraseology, language and culture, and Chinese phonetics. Among his many publications are 500 Common Chinese Idioms (co-authored, Routledge 2010), 500 Common Chinese Proverbs and Colloquial Expressions (co-authored, Routledge 2013), Crossing Cultural Boundaries (co-authored, Routledge 2009, 2015) and A Thematic Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese (co-authored, Routledge 2019). He is a contributor to the Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language (ed. by Sin-Wai Chan, 2016) and Encyclopedia of China (3rd Edition, forthcoming).