This book is divided into three parts. The first researches on the concept innovation and development strategies of international Chinese education, focusing on the macroscopic development plan. The second studies the methods and models of international Chinese education, focusing on the teaching methodology. The third deals with the textbook design of international Chinese education, including relevant research regarding the development of teaching materials for international Chinese education. Drawing new thoughts, ideas and instructional strategies from various subjects, such as teaching of pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, discourse and culture, second language acquisition, and teacher development, the papers included are of great academic value and are a good guide for teachers.

Guo Peng, a professor and postgraduate tutor, is currently the executive deputy dean of the Graduate School of Beijing Language and Culture University. Prof. Guo’s research focuses on ancient Chinese literature, ancient literary theory, teaching Chinese as a foreign language, and Chinese culture. In 2002 Guo won a University Young Teachers’ Award granted by the Fok Ying Tung Foundation of Ministry of Education. He is the chief compiler of Research on International Chinese Education and has published several academic books including The Poetry Spirit and the Essay Form: On the Idea of ‘Writing Poetry in the Form of Essay’ during Northern Song Dynasty and Su Shi, Su Family Poets and Their Poems. Shen Shuying is an associate professor and a postgraduate tutor in Beijing Language and Culture University who has engaged in the teaching and research of Chinese as a foreign language for many years and is devoted to the research on business Chinese teaching, international Chinese education and CFL textbooks. Ms. Shen has directed a Humanities and Social Sciences Planning Fund Project of the Ministry of Education. Her works include several dozen papers published in key Chinese journals, including “The Orientation of Integrated Business Chinese Course”, “A Few Thoughts on the Development of Confucius Institutes: From the Perspective of the Chinese Culture ‘Going Global’”, CFL textbooks such as The Word Syllabus of Business Chinese for Undergraduate Education and Business Chinese: Advanced Reading (of Erya Chinese series), and the academic book CFL Textbooks: Theory and Practice, etc.