Yu Zhaozhou, a Chinese teacher at the School of Chinese, Beijing International Studies University, got her BA degree in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics and MA degree in History of Chinese Language from Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Tsinghua University in 1998-2002 and 2002-2005 respectively. She has been teaching Chinese as a second language at Beijing International Studies University starting 2005 and had taught at Aichi University, Japan for a year. Her research focuses on teaching Chinese characters to international students.