The author has collected more than 260 thesis papers on measure words study, 18,000 entries of words and more than 300 error sentences made by the students. Based on a large quantity of linguistic corpus, the author makes deep and detailed investigation and research on measure words. For issues with divergent opinions for a long time, the book gives new explanations based on new linguistic theories. For many usages of measure words which have been ignored, the book also offers new opinions. This book is the author’s important research results after 20 years’study on measure words. It is of great academic value for readers who study Chinese grammar, theoretical value for readers who study the computer-aided natural language processing as well as referential value for teachers of Chinese as a foreign language.

He Jie is a professor of College of Chinese Language and Culture, Nankai University as well as a member of International Society for Chinese Language Teaching, China Association for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Chinese Language Society, China Writers'Association. She lectured at University of Latvia from 1996 to 1998 and was invited to attend a seminar in the field of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (TCFL) in Hanoverian of German in 1999. Devoted herself to TCFL and language study for a long time, Prof. He has published many works, including Studies of Measure Words on Modern Chinese，Studies of Measure Words on Modern Chinese (Revised Edition) as well as dictionaries of measure words such as The Series of Practical Chinese: The Prompt Understanding of Measure Words. She was also one of the writers of Dictionary of Common Modern Chinese Measure Word and has chiefly edited a textbook and co-edited two textbooks. More than 30 of her papers have been published or selected by national or international conferences.