Against the backdrop of advancing the development and prosperity of philosophy and social sciences in the new era, the School of Chinese Language and Literature was founded as an integrated bachelor’s - master
’
s - doctoral teaching unit. It was established by integrating relevant disciplines from the Institute of Literature, Institute of Linguistics, Institute of Ethnic Literature, and Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) - and restructuring and merging the former Department of Pragmatics. Professor Ding Guoqi, Director of the Institute of Literature of CASS, serves as Dean of the School and oversees its overall operations. Professor An Deming, Deputy Director of the Institute of Ethnic Literature of CASS, serves as Vice Dean, responsible for research and postgraduate education.
As one of the schools featuring integration of research and education, the School of Chinese Language and Literature is home to the first-level discipline of Chinese Language and Literature, boasting a profound academic heritage and tradition. Its disciplinary history dates back to the Institute of Literature at Peking University founded in 1953 and the Institute of Linguistics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences established in 1950. It has grown steadily for more than 70 years witnessing the founding of the Institute of Minority Languages at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1956 and the Institute of Ethnic Literature in 1980. The School brings together outstanding researchers and high-caliber academic faculty, forming a well-structured and strong teaching team. It currently employs more than 190 faculty members, including over 100 master’s supervisors and more than 60 doctoral supervisors.
The educational philosophy of the School centers on aligning the inheritance and development of CASS's disciplinary traditions with higher education's fundamental task of fostering virtue through education. It offers one undergraduate program and develops 11 postgraduate second-level disciplines. The School features five priority disciplines: Ancient Literature, Marxist Literary Theory, Syntax and Semantics, Historical Linguistics, and Chinese Epics; three key disciplines: Research on the Inheritance of Chinese Culture in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, Chinese Dialectology, and Research on the Interaction, Communication and Integration of the Chinese Nation; three special disciplines: Corpus Linguistics, Manchu-Tungus Folk Literature, and Tangutology; and one emerging interdisciplinary field: Internet Literature and Mass Media.
The School’s program development follows the overarching requirements of “comprehensive disciplines, multiple languages, broad concept of literature, deep integration, distinctive features, and high standards,” and upholds the principles of resource integration, structural optimization, categorical planning, and coordinated advancement. It has formed an overall framework of “One First-Level Discipline, Three Major Pillars, and Five Program Clusters”. “One First-Level Discipline” refers to Chinese Language and Literature. The Three Major Pillars take literary studies as the core, with linguistics and Chinese minority languages and literatures as two complementary wings, pursuing unified and coordinated development. “Five Program Clusters” include Literary Theory and Literary Hermeneutics, Chinese Classical Philology and Ancient Literature, Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature and Folk Literature, Linguistics and Chinese Language Studies, and Chinese Ethnic Literature.
The School will steadfastly focus on the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education. It will continue to deepen the integration of research and education, transform high-quality research resources into superior teaching resources, and turn academic distinctiveness into the hallmark of talent cultivation. It will keep optimizing the curriculum, refining teaching procedures, consolidating the foundations of talent development, strengthening academic and practice-based education, promoting the sharing of educational resources across undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels, deepening international cooperation, and institutionalizing international exchanges. The ultimate goal is to cultivate innovative and advanced professionals in Chinese Language and Literature who possess a deep sense of national commitment, a strong humanistic spirit, and a global outlook, and are capable of scaling the heights of the humanities.
More>>
