New Concept Chinese, a series of Chinese textbooks for adults, is suitable for both self-teaching and classroom teaching. Observing the principle of “making Chinese easier to learn”, this series presents practical, concise and interesting teaching materials and employs easy, flexible and effective teaching methods so that students and teachers could learn and teach Chinese in a convenient and effective way.

The whole series includes Textbooks, Workbooks, Chinese Character Workbooks, Teacher’s Books, etc.

Mr. Cui Yonghua is a researcher in Beijing Language and Culture University. He has been engaged in the field of Chinese teaching and research since 1981. His research focuses on Chinese grammar, Chinese language teaching and Chinese information processing, and his publications includeClassroom Techniques for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language(as the lead author),Teaching and Research of Chinese as a Foreign Language(a collection of academic papers) and some textbooks coauthored with others, such asStandard Chinese Course,Learning ChineseandLearn Chinese through Listening, Speaking and Watching. Mr. Cui has chaired and participated in many research projects, such asRadical Standards of GB 13000.1 Character Set for the Purpose of Information Processing, and has written a number of academic papers, the representative ones being “Syntactic and Semantic Issues Related to Commendatory and Derogatory Adjectives”, “An Attempt in Analyzing the Sentence Pattern ‘连……也……’” and “About the Methodology of TCFL as a Discipline”, etc.