As one of the books in the “Book Series of BLCU Scholars”, this book has collected Professor Li Yuming’s research papers over the recent years, encompassing aspects such as international Chinese education (CFL teaching), Chinese language teaching, foreign language teaching and language spread, and language planning. The papers included are mostly prefaces or short newspaper articles, which are concise yet well-founded, providing profound inspirations and guidance for studies in the relevant fields.

This book is neatly structured and clearly classified. It deals with five themes as follows. “Language spread” discusses macroscopic topics such as language spread and the global spread of Chinese as well as the cases of bilinguals; “international Chinese education” talks about the specific theoretical and practical problems in international Chinese education; “Chinese language research and education” mainly talks about “global Chinese” and how to look at Chinese at home and abroad in this context, touching upon the topic of Chinese language education; “several points about foreign language education” explores the similarities and commonalities between foreign language education and international Chinese education from academic and practical perspectives; “language life and language planning” gives an all-round, multi-angle discussion of a series of topics regarding language life, language planning and relevant aspects. 

Li Yuming, former Secretary of the CPC Committee and director of the School Administration Committee of BLCU, focuses his research on linguistic theories, modern Chinese, and psycholinguistics, enjoying particularly good fame for his research on grammar, child language and deaf children’s language rehabilitation. Prof. Li has published more than 10 books, including Children’s Language Development, Theoretical Linguistics, Explorations on the Systematic Acquisition of Han Ethnic Group Children’s Interrogative Sentences, Language Understanding and Occurrence, A General Introduction to Linguistics, and Studies on the Quantity and Scope of Chinese Language, as well as over 200 academic papers. He has hosted four state-level social sciences projects.