Chinese paratactic grammar is a syntactic concept coined by Zhang Li in his Deep Choice of Culture: The Theory of Chinese Paratactic Grammar (Jilin Education Publishing House, 1994). Ever since then, Zhang has never stopped his research into this theory over the past 20-plus years, bringing out works such as An Outline of Chinese Paratactic Grammar (2001) and On Chinese Paratactic Grammar: A Construction Based on Types of Cognition and Logic of Language (2012). As a summary of Zhang’s latest research findings about Chinese paratactic grammar, this book is the first that Zhang has published in China on this topic. 

The book contains a macroscopic rendering of paratactic grammar as well as microscopic analyses and discussions of problems specific to Chinese. It provides a new theoretical perspective for the studies of Chinese grammar and the teaching of CFL grammar, thus having great academic value. 

Mr. Zhang Li, born in Changchun, Jilin Province, obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Chinese Department of Fudan University in 1991. Mr. Zhang has been working in Japan since 1992 and is now a professor in Osaka Sangyo University, principal of the Confucius Institute there, and an executive member of the Association of Japanese-Chinese Contrastive Linguistics. His major works include Deep Choice of Culture: The Theory of Chinese Paratactic Grammar (Jilin Education Publishing House, 1994), On Chinese Paratactic Grammar: A Construction Based on Types of Cognition and Logic of Language (Hakuteisha Publishing, 2012) and Selected Papers on Studies of Modern Chinese Grammar in Japan (co-editor, BLCUP, 2007).