“Series of Teaching Foreigners Chinese Grammar” is the achievement of “Research and Development of Grammar Syllabus for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language and Teaching Reference Grammar Series (Multi-volume)”, a major project of National Social Science Fund of China sponsored by Professor Qi Huyang, and has been selected as the “2022 Founding Project of National Publication Foundation”. As an important reference book for international Chinese language education, it aims to build and improve the “Grammar System of Chinese Teaching” for foreign students to meet the development needs of the new era. It mainly serves the front-line Chinese teachers, researchers, graduate students and undergraduates majoring in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages. This series consists of 39 volumes, including 4 outline series, 26 book series, 8 summary series, and 1 collection of essays.

This book is a fascicule of the fourth edition in the series of 26 volumes, which consists of 69 questions, divided into “Ontological Study of Adjective Grammatical Functions”, “Bias Analysis of Adjective Grammatical Functions”, and “Instructional Design of Adjective Grammatical Functions”. The first part focuses on the basic knowledge of adjectives in terms of basic concepts, subordinate classification, syntactic functions and semantic features. The second part focuses on the bias of Chinese learners, which leads to the bias study of adjectives in the use of Chinese language. The third part focuses on the practice of Chinese language teaching, designing teaching programs for Chinese language teachers to teach adjective-related grammars from the perspective of teaching structure and teaching process.

The editor-in-chief is Li Jinrong, who has a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Shanghai Normal University, and is also a professor and doctoral supervisor of International College of Chinese Studies. His research focuses on functional linguistics, Chinese grammar and international Chinese language education. He has presided over 4 national and provincial projects, published 5 books and textbooks, and more than 50 papers in professional academic journals such as Studies of the Chinese Language and Chinese Teaching in the World.

 The author is Liu Zhenping, who has a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Beijing Language and Culture University, and is also a professor of the School of International Education, Nanning Normal University. His research mainly focuses on Chinese grammar and international Chinese education. He has published more than 70 papers in Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies and other journals, 7 monographs in the Commercial Press and other publishers, and presided over more than 10 projects of the National Social Science Foundation.

As one of the most important lexical categories in Chinese, adjectives have long been the focus in Chinese linguistics and the discipline of teaching Chinese as a second language. With the development of related disciplines, researchers have made abundant research results on the basis of borrowing and absorbing relevant theories from the West, and paying attention to combining the characteristics of Chinese language and Chinese language teaching. From a multidimensional research perspective, this book comprehensively and systematically combs through the research results related to Chinese adjectives, focuses on the needs of Chinese language teaching practice, summarizes the research problems that are emphasized in the fields of Chinese language ontology, Chinese second language acquisition and Chinese second language teaching, and provides detailed and meticulous answers for front-line Chinese language teachers in response to these problems.

It is recommended for front-line teachers of language education, language teaching researchers, and postgraduate students majoring in international Chinese language education and other language education.