What do Chinese language and philology graduate students study?

Postgraduates majoring in Chinese language and literature mainly study modern Chinese and ancient Chinese.

The main research directions of this subject are divided into modern Chinese and ancient Chinese. This paper mainly studies the evolution law, structural characteristics and realistic situation of Chinese spoken and written language system from ancient times to modern times, including Chinese dialects, Chinese history, Chinese lexicology, modern Chinese grammar and rhetoric, phonological exegesis, medieval Chinese vocabulary grammar, Chinese phonetics, Chinese development history, Chinese information processing, teaching Chinese as a foreign language and so on.

Modern Chinese focuses on the study of modern Mandarin and dialects, which is closely related to linguistics and applied linguistics. Ancient Chinese focuses on the study of ancient characters, ancient sounds, exegesis and vocabulary, which is closely related to historical philology, archaeology, ancient literature and other disciplines. On the basis of extensive possession of literature, this paper systematically studies the significance of traditional literature and ancient Chinese characters by combining traditional philology, exegetics theory and modern linguistics theory and method.

According to the discipline classification of the Ministry of Education, the first-level disciplines of China language and literature mainly include Chinese philology, linguistics and applied linguistics, literature and art, China ancient literature, China modern and contemporary literature, China minority language and literature, China classical philology, comparative literature and world literature. There are eight two disciplines, and each two disciplines is divided into several research directions. Specifically, each school is not allowed to set up a master's degree in these eight two disciplines.