“Series of 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.

This book is a fascicle of the sixth series of the book series.

Compound is a structural relationship, as well as a logical relationship, which is reflected in language units at all levels. In the practice of teaching Chinese as a foreign language, the understanding and expression of compound relationship is also an important teaching content. Based on the Grammar Syllabus for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, this book provides a detailed description and explanation of compound relationship in modern Chinese, constructs a knowledge framework of compound relationship, systematically analyses the internal levels and characteristic differences of compound relationship, thoroughly explains the forms, meaning characteristics and expression effects of compound connective components and compound structural elements, and specifies how to teach compound relationship in Chinese as a Foreign Language. 

Shao Hongliang has a PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Shanghai Normal University and is a doctoral supervisor at the School of Chinese Studies and Exchange of Shanghai International Studies University. His research mainly focuses on modern Chinese grammar and international Chinese language education. He has published more than fifty papers in professional journals such as ZHONGGUO YUWEN, Chinese Teaching in the World and Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies. His book On the Redundancy of Chinese Syntactic-Semantic Markers won the prize for the MOE Award for Scientific Research Achievements in Higher Education Institutions (Youth Achievement Award) by the Ministry of Education.

Liu Huiqing, the author, has a Ph.D in Chinese Language philology from Shanghai Normal University, and is an associate professor at the International College of Chinese Studies, Shanghai Normal University. Her research mainly focuses on modern Chinese grammar and grammar for teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Professor Liu has published more than fifty papers in professional journals such as Studies in Language and Linguistics, Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies, Chinese Language Learning, and Research on Chinese as a Second Language.

Liu Chunguang, the author, has a PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Shanghai Normal University, is an associate professor at the International College of Chinese Studies, Shanghai Normal University. His research mainly focuses on modern Chinese grammar, second language acquisition, and international Chinese language education. Professor Liu has published many papers in professional journals such as Chinese Linguistics and Chinese Language Learning, and one monograph.

The Compound Phrases and Compound Sentences focuses both on the construction of a systematic framework for compound relationship and, at the same time, on comparative analyses of its internal hierarchies and feature differences. The author firstly explains and depicts the definitions, characteristics, scope and categories of compound phrases and compound sentences, then fully examines the use of compound connectives, the ordering of compound components, and the characteristic differences between compound and other relations, and finally launches an in-depth discussion on the comprehension and expression, acquisition and teaching of compound corpora.

Through this book, readers, especially those engaged in teaching Chinese as a foreign language, can grasp more comprehensively and understand more accurately the compound relationship in Chinese.

This book is recommended to international Chinese language teachers and undergraduate and graduate students of international Chinese language education.