Since 1991, Dr. Ning’s administrative duties have included general oversight of the Center, assistance with long-term fundraising for endowments in Chinese Studies, Center-wide initiatives including international links and study abroad programs, town-grown projects such as Legacy: History of the Chinese in Hawai’i, and grant-writing/project management for projects such as the ABC (Alphabetically-based Computerized) Chinese-English Dictionary. She was US director of the Confucius Institute, a project of CCS, that promoted Chinese language education in Hawaii and the US, from 2006–19. Her research interests include Chinese language pedagogy and materials development, Chinese comic literature, and Chinese film. She regularly conducts teacher training classes for secondary and post-secondary levels on performance-based language testing and training, and gives a wide range of lectures on Chinese culture to both academic and non-academic audiences. In 1998, she was president of the US-based international Chinese Language Teachers Association, in 1999 its immediate-past president, and from 2000-2009 served as its executive director. She is also the author of several Chinese language textbooks published by Yale University Press.
