She is also a visiting professor at St. Cloud State University. Dr. Zheng is the first Deaf person to receive a PhD in linguistics in China. She is fluent in Chinese Sign Language, standard mandarin, written Chinese, written English, and learning ASL. Peers in academia evaluate her as “the pioneer of deaf people who taught in university and obtained the title of associate professor and the qualification of Master’s Supervisor.” As a Deaf scholar, she plays a distinctive and important role in CSL research and has won great prestige in the Deaf community.