The proceedings are a part of the research findings of a key project sponsored by the National Social Science Fund of China, namely “Studies on Foreign Students’ Acquisition and Cognition of Written Chinese”. The book is composed of four parts: the guiding principle of the project, macrovisual study, corpus study, and experimental study, including 22 papers totaling approximately 200,000 Chinese characters. This book explores the different realms of written Chinese in the perspective of the teaching and application of written Chinese, and discusses how to evaluate the levels and quality of written Chinese, thus is of considerable significance to further study written Chinese and the teaching of written Chinese. 

Cui Xiliang, a professor of Beijing Language and Culture University and a tutor of Ph.D. candidates, got his Doctor of Arts degree from Peking University, Honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from McMaster University and Honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Keimyung University. Mr. Cui has been awarded a special government allowance by the State Council of China. He is the author of monographs such as Chinese Idioms and Chinese Humanism, Language Understanding and Cognition and A Brief Introduction to Linguistics, etc. and is also the author of more than 60 published academic papers.