Dr Zhengdao Ye is Senior Lecturer at the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Australian National University, where she is the convenor of the Master of Translation Program, and a NAATI accredited translator. Dr Ye is a graduate in Chinese Linguistics and Literature from East China Normal University in Shanghai and the Australian National University. Her teaching and research interests include Chinese Linguistics, The Language of Emotions, Cross-Cultural Communication; Language, Culture and Translation; Translation Across Languages, Second Language in Use and Introduction to the Study of Language, and she has lectured extensively on these topics in Australia and overseas. She has been invited as a consultant and lecturer among others at Aarhaus University, Copenhagen Business School, Griffith University, La Sapienza University, La Trobe University, Le Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l’Asie orientale (CRLAO, EHESS), Roskilde University, Rouen Normandy University, University of New England, Monash University, and the Australian Linguistic Institute at Macquarie University. She is the editor of The Semantics of Nouns (2017) and the co-editor (with Cliff Goddard) of ’Happiness’ and ’Pain’ across Languages and Cultures (2016).