Research on Chinese punctuation

Author: Zhong Wei Yun
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book summarizes 254 punctuation usage patterns based on the actual use of 25 types of punctuation marks in modern Chinese, among which 66 usage patterns are newly proposed in this book. The book challenges the definitions of the period, question mark, exclamation mark, and semicolon, which have long guided the language and writing behavior of the entire society in China since the introduction of the new-style punctuation in 1919, and establishes a completely new academic perspective. This new perspective has been unanimously affirmed and praised by dozens of renowned experts and scholars, including Lu Shuxiang, Zhang Zhigong, Chen Yuan, Zhong Zheming, Wang Jun, and Cao Xianzhuo. – This new perspective corrects the errors in the definitions and usage of the period, question mark, exclamation mark, and semicolon that have persisted in the history of Chinese punctuation for nearly a century!