Key Topics
About the Book Series
Originally published in Chinese by Foreign Language and Teach Press, the Key Topics series selects core topics in five major directions: linguistics, applied linguistics, translation studies, foreign literature studies, and intercultural studies. Each book discusses research context, methods and achievements, selecting classic and original research cases and future trends. It is known as the "scientific research map" of foreign language disciplines in China.
The book series provides readers in all directions of foreign language disciplines with a must-read list of research on core topics, helping to build a Chinese academic discourse system and showcasing Chinese perspectives and views. To discuss a proposal, please contact Ms Lian Sun, Taylor & Francis Publisher <[email protected]>.
Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese Semantics: A Cognitive Approach
1st Edition
By Liu Zhengguang
November 05, 2026
This innovative work reveals the commonalities and differences between English and Chinese by comparing how they conceptualize time and space, how definiteness and animacy correlate with syntax and semantics, and more. The book clarifies that a contrastive linguistic study from the perspective of ...
Investigating the Translation of Chinese Classics: Problems and Methods
1st Edition
By FAN Xiangtao
February 09, 2026
This book offers a panoramic review of the translation and academic study of Chinese classics spanning philosophy, history, poetry, fiction, drama, and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) over four centuries. It synthesizes achievements, addresses gaps, and charts future research directions. This ...
A Multiple-Corpora Approach to Chinese-English Contrastive Analysis
1st Edition
By Hongwu Qin, Lei Kong
September 30, 2025
This innovative work combines traditional analysis with modern corpus-based methods to explore macro- and micro-level linguistic patterns in English and Chinese, offering new insights into comparative studies of the two languages. Through detailed analysis of part-of-speech sequences, prepositional...