Hua Shu is Professor of Psychology at Beijing Normal University. She has studied the basic cognitive process of language and children’s language development, with special attention to children’s learning of Chinese characters and reading development. Through long-term collaboration with Anderson at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, she has localized and experimented with the method of Shared Book Reading for early education in China. Her research has been published in several international and Chinese journals, including Child Development, Developmental Science and Journal of Educational Psychology, and two books: Lexical representation and processing in Chinese-speaking poor Readers (with Meng & Lai, 2003); Morphological structure awareness, vocabulary, and reading (with Ng, Meng & Penne, 2004).