Prof. Haihua PAN received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, USA and MA from Wuhan University, China. He joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in December, 2015. Previously he taught at City University of Hong Kong (7/1995 – 12/2015), Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China (7/1986 – 7/1988), and was a Research Associate at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for six months in 1995. He was awarded the Changjiang Scholar-Chair Professor by the Ministry of Education, China in September 2012 and the KC Wong Foundation (王寬誠基金會) Scholar in 2010. He was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Linguistics at University of Paris 7 in June 2014. He has published two research books on Chinese reflexives and formal semantics and edited two on Chinese linguistics and focus. He is a reviewer of prestigious international journals such as Language, Linguistic Inquiry, 《中國語文》, 《當代語言學》, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Lingua, Language Sciences, Linguistics, Journal of Linguistics, Natural Language Semantics, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, etc. He was Associate Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, responsible for Postgraduate Education and Research during 8/2005 – 9/2010. He served on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (2004-2006), and was the President of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong during 2010 – 2011.