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.
Mr. Cui Yonghua is a research with a master’s degree. 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 include Classroom Techniques for Teaching
Chinese as a Foreign Language, Teaching and Research of Chinese as a Foreign
Language (a collection of academic papers) and some textbooks coauthored with
others, such as Standard Chinese Course, Learning Chinese and Learn Chinese
through Listening, Speaking and Watching. Mr. Cui has chaired and participate
in many research projects, such as Radical Standards of GB13000.1Character 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.