She has a Master’s in Adult Education from East China Normal University, focusing on Training and Human Resource Development. She obtained her Ph.D. in Adult Education from the University of Georgia, focusing on Adult Learning from the sociological approach. Her areas of interest include: Adult learning; learning and tools such as culture, media, language, discourse, and social networks; learning community; community-based adult education; knowledge construction; social constructionism; some postmodernism; qualitative research; and case study. Her dissertation is a case study of knowledge construction in a learning community.