Chinese grammar

Author: Shen Xiaolong
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: What is Chinese grammar? The "Chinese grammar" we learned in middle school is now "de-emphasized" in middle school Chinese teaching; the "Chinese grammar" we studied in university is now becoming increasingly "complicated." Whether it is "de-emphasized" or "complicated," it indicates that 20th-century Chinese grammar, due to its profound Western academic background, has deviated from the "linguistic intuition" and "cultural sensibility" of the Chinese nation. This deviation reveals the spiritual impoverishment and weakness of modern Chinese grammar, namely cultural linear evolutionism, Western centrism, and scientism.