“Series for 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, which 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 first-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, 8 summary series, 26 book series, and 1 collection of essays.

The Written Language Syllabus of Teaching Foreigners Chinese Grammar is the first written Chinese grammar syllabus at home and abroad. Oriented by teaching applications and learning needs, the syllabus exhaustively extracts and records grammatical items (including word entries, format entries, idiomatic entries, and chapter-related entries) with a written tendency, describes them in terms of function, usage, use cases, as well as levels of importance, difficulty, and writtenness. On the basis of this, the general features of Chinese written grammar forms are summarized at a macro level, so as to meet the needs of the intermediate and advanced Chinese teaching community for teaching written language grammar.

Zhang Wangxi, the editor-in-chief, has a PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Shanghai Normal University, and is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Beijing Language and Culture University. His research mainly focuses on modern Chinese grammar and teaching Chinese as a foreign language. He has published nearly 60 papers and more than 30 monographs, edited books and textbooks.

Shao Hongliang has a PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics of Shanghai Normal University and is a PhD supervisor at the School of Chinese Studies and Exchange, Shanghai International Studies University. His research focuses on modern Chinese grammar and teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages. Dr. Shao has published more than 50 papers in professional journals such as Chinese Language, Chinese Teaching in the World and Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies. At the same time, his monograph, On the Redundancy of Chinese Syntactic-Semantic Markers, has won the “8th Outstanding Achievement Award for Scientific Research in Universities” (Youth Achievement Award) of the Ministry of Education.

This syllabus fills the gap in written grammar. The most influential grammar syllabuses used in Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) examinations and teaching are those for the general language, and no grammar syllabus for the sub-language has been published so far. The development of the Written Language Syllabus fills this gap and meets the needs of written language teaching at the intermediate and advanced levels of Chinese language teaching.

The syllabus is orientated by teaching applications and learning needs. The main text of the syllabus is both an outline and a concise study manual of written grammar items with strong practicality. Each grammatical item gives explanations to both various meanings/functions and usages and typical example sentences to help learners understand.

The syllabus has a wide range of corpus sources and is scientifically organized. Based on the big data analysis of existing textbooks, tools and dictionaries, syllabi and grammar works, the author extracts the typical and commonly used grammar items in written expressions. Meanwhile, based on the annotation of grammatical items in existing literature, the grammatical items are divided into three grades: importance, difficulty, and writtenness, with each grade further divided into three relative grades.

This book is recommended for frontline Chinese language teachers, researchers, graduate and undergraduate students majoring in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Language.