Introduction to Chinese Linguistics

Author: Qian Naiying, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2001-09-01
Features: This book is a public course textbook suitable for undergraduate university students, as well as a popular reader on Chinese language and literature. The same-named course will first be widely offered to freshmen in the science, engineering, and liberal arts at Shanghai University. How to offer public foundation courses suitable for the requirements of the 21st century to science, engineering, and liberal arts students, and to enhance their humanities education, is a topic worthy of in-depth reflection and serious discussion. In the 1980s, during the period of educational recovery, the College Chinese textbook played an important role in supplementing and strengthening Chinese language knowledge for freshmen in science and engineering universities and non-Chinese liberal arts majors, achieving remarkable results. However, by the end of the 20th century, the knowledge structure of university freshmen had changed. They had already received a solid foundation in Chinese language and literature during their secondary education and could learn systematic classical and modern Chinese texts from the newly adopted high school Chinese textbooks. Therefore, further supplementary learning in article selection and basic Chinese language training after entering university has lost its original teaching significance.