With prosodic morphology, prosodic syntax and stylistic grammar as its theoretical foundations, this book systematically introduces Chinese four-character phrases as a specific representation of the special prosodic system of Chinese from various aspects, including the prosodic and grammatical features, the two basic formations and corresponding patterns of stress, and the stylistic and syntactic functions, etc.

Zhu Saiping, born in 1982 in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, graduated from Beijing Language and Culture University. Now Ms. Zhu is a Ph.D. candidate in linguistics and applied linguistics, studying Chinese prosodic syntax after Professor Feng Shengli. She has published several academic papers in Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies, Chinese Language Learning and other journals.