Dr. Dongmei Wang is now Research Fellow at the editorial department of Studies of the Chinese Language, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her main theoretical interests focus on cognitive linguistics. She has published many papers in Zhongguo Yuwen [Studies of the Chinese Language], Yuyan Jiaoxue yu Yanjiu [Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies], and Yuyan Kexue [Linguistic Sciences], among other leading linguistic journals in China. She had her representative work, Cognitive Research on Verb-noun Interchange in Contemporary Chinese, published by China Social Sciences Press in 2010, which won her the 2010 Li Fang-Kuei Book Award in Linguistics.