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As the resident director in Hangzhou, I hope to offer you a home across the globe.
– Li Shumin
Hangzhou program director

meet the director

Li Shumin
Every Central College Abroad program boasts a resident director who plays a unique role in students’ experience. Directors provide academic advising; teach a hands-on seminar, where students learn about the host city and then experience it first hand; and lead the cultural excursions connected to the seminar class. Central College Abroad takes pride in the personalized attention that it can provide its students.

Li Shumin, the resident director in Hangzhou, brings a wealth of knowledge and experience about Hangzhou, Zhejiang province and all of China to the program. Li Shumin is a graduate of Shanghai Institute of Mechanical Engineering and also completed her MA there in Applied Linguistics. She is currently completing her doctorate in Linguistics at the University of Shanghai.

Li Shumin comes with lots of experience in international education. She knows Central College and its students well, having taught Chinese language and Culture there for a year in 2001-2002. Since 1993 Li Shumin has taught at Zhejiang University, Central’s partner school in China, with responsibilities for graduate level English classes. In addition she has directed the Graduate English Teaching Group, led the student affairs section of the graduate class and has been Assistant Dean of the International College which delivers the Chinese language classes to our students.
Li Shumin says of her current work with students, “Although it is very challenging and demanding, I like every bit of it---the endless research, the forever young feeling gained by my communications with my students.” She looks forward to introducing students to her home country and helping them grow in the language and culture of China.