Chinese language and literature graduate school, which direction to choose?

1, Chinese classical literature:

Professional profile: Chinese classical literature to organize and study ancient Chinese books, promote traditional culture for the purpose. As an independent discipline, Chinese classical literature is very "young", only 20 years of development history. This profession is mainly committed to the research and organization of ancient Chinese canonical books, such as the total collection of literary works, writers through the ages, the proofreading, annotation, anonymous, editing, writers, works of basic historical materials, the collation of research, writing biographies of writers, literary activities, works of the Department of the year, as well as the evolution of the writing skills, the evolution of the genre of the account and the evidence, and so on.

Research Direction: Pre-Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, North and South Dynasties literature, Tang and Song literature, Yuan, Ming and Qing literature. Courses taken: Ancient Book Proofreading, Ancient Book Edition, Ancient Book Arrangement Practice, Ancient Book Study, History of Chinese Cataloging, Classical Literature Morphology, Ancient Book Examination, Ancient Book Identification, Ancient Book Compilation, Ancient Book Compilation, and Ancient Book Retrieval.

Employment Prospects: The students can be engaged in the research and teaching of classical literature in universities, scientific research institutions, publishing houses, libraries, cultural industries and other related departments.

Enrollment: ★

Classical Chinese literature is highly specialized, the research content is relatively remote, employment is subject to certain restrictions. And has been enrollment is not much, most of the applicants are interested in this area of candidates, most of its master's degree is located in the Institute, so the number of applicants each year is relatively small.

2, literature and art:

Professional profile: literature and art, also known as literature, is the study of the nature and characteristics of literature and its occurrence and development of the law, to give guidance to the practice of literature. The scope of literary studies is very broad, including literary theory, literary criticism, literary phenomena, and literary history, etc. Today's researchers have also shifted their perspective to the emerging and quite dynamic aspects of cultural studies. The program is closely linked to philosophy and is highly theoretical and discursive.

Research Direction: Literary Theory, Literary Aesthetics, Literary Criticism, Culture and Poetics, Western Literary Theory, Comparative Poetics between China and the West, Chinese Classical Poetics, and History of Chinese Literary Criticism.

Employment Prospects: Most of the students enter cultural institutions, colleges and universities, news media units, engaged in literary criticism, editing, publicity planning and other work.

Enrollment heat: ★★★

Literature and art majors due to the very strong theoretical, abstract subject content, so in the literature category of the general enrollment heat. Candidates who choose this specialty, most of them are out of interest and hobby, so the number of applicants, although not many, is elite. At the same time, due to the small number of students enrolled in the institutions, the admission ratio is usually around 15%.

3, Comparative and World Literature:

Professional Profile: Comparative and World Literature is a composite discipline. Its research is based on absorbing the results of traditional world literature research, breaking the inherent disciplinary boundaries, the world literature, European and American literature into the global overall pattern, and promote Chinese culture. The program requires candidates to have a solid foundation in Chinese and foreign literature and a broad cultural vision, as well as a good command of foreign languages and the ability to read foreign literature proficiently.

Specialties of study: Sino-foreign literary relations, comparative literature and literary theory, studies of Chinese literature in the world, foreign literature and translation studies, comparative literary theory, Western literature and comparative literature between China and the West, Oriental literature and comparative literature between the East and the Orient, comparative poetics, European and American literature, and foreign Chinese studies.

Employment Prospects: Mainly employed in colleges and universities, scientific research units, press and publishing industry, and foreign-related enterprises.

Enrollment Hotness: ★★★★★

The advantage of this major is reflected in its openness and openness, but the requirements for foreign languages are very high. The Department of Foreign Languages has a similar major, which is more suitable for applicants who are interested in the study of foreign literature itself, and its application heat has been stable and moderate.

4, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics:

Professional Introduction: Linguistics and Applied Linguistics focuses on the study of language in China, analyzing and summarizing the relationships and internal laws of the genesis of human language. The discipline can be divided into theoretical linguistics and applied linguistics two blocks, theoretical linguistics tends to theoretical research, to explore the phonological, lexical, syntactic, semantic, semantic, and historical evolution of the phonological structure of a particular language and the law; applied linguistics refers to the application of linguistics theory or methodology used in other fields and disciplines arising from the application of the cross-disciplinary, such as corpus linguistics, legal linguistics, pedagogical linguistics, and so on, practicality It is more practical. Chinese as a Foreign Language is a branch of applied linguistics in some universities.

Research Direction: Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and Dialectology, Linguistic Information Processing, Language Testing, Cultural Linguistics, Phonetics, Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language.

Employment Prospects: Most of them are engaged in teaching, research and training in colleges and universities, scientific research institutes, Chinese as a foreign language training institutions, press and publishing organizations, as well as secondary schools and state organs.

Enrollment: ★★★★

Now the shortage of Chinese as a foreign language teaching personnel is in the millions, and there is still a rising trend, the institutions have opened the linguistics and applied linguistics majors, and at the same time increased the direction of Chinese as a foreign language, the enrollment of the heat is thus evident. Beijing Normal University in 2007, the number of applicants reached 891 people, a record high, the acceptance ratio is generally less than 10%.

5, Chinese language and literature:

Professional profile: Chinese language and literature for the traditional language subjects, divided into modern Chinese language and ancient Chinese language two major directions. It includes traditional philology, phonetics, exegesis, and a series of disciplines such as modern Chinese philology, Chinese phonetics, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, rhetoric, etc. It mainly studies the evolutionary laws, structural characteristics, and realities of the Chinese language's oral system and writing system from ancient times to modern times. Modern Chinese focuses on the study of modern Mandarin and dialects, and is closely related to linguistics and applied linguistics; Ancient Chinese focuses on the study of ancient characters (oracle bone inscriptions, jinwen, liushu, etc.), ancient phonetics, exegesis, vocabulary, etc., and is closely related to historical documentation, archaeology and ancient literature.

Research directions: Chinese dialects, history of Chinese language, Chinese lexicography, modern Chinese grammar and rhetoric, phonetics and script exegesis, vocabulary and grammar of ancient and middle Chinese, Chinese phonetics, history of Chinese language development, information processing of Chinese characters, and teaching of Chinese as a foreign language.

Employment Prospects: Generally employed in colleges and universities, national cultural and publishing departments, middle schools, and Chinese as a foreign language training organizations.

Enrollment: ★★★★★

As a traditional basic discipline with a long history, it has a prominent professional nature, many famous schools and teachers, better employment and further study, and a relatively large possibility of graduate students entering colleges and universities, and the number of applicants has been very stable over the years.

6, Chinese minority languages and literature:

Professional profile: Chinese minority languages and literature is designed to cultivate a systematic knowledge of the relevant minority languages and literature, and to engage in teaching, scientific research, translation, literary creation, journalism and other work in minority education, cultural departments and units of specialists. The program focuses on the study of the language and literature of the relevant ethnic groups, the understanding of the relevant theories, history of development, and the current status of research, as well as training in the business skills required for professional work. The program is geographically strong, and only a few colleges and universities offer it.

Research directions: minority language studies, minority literature studies, minority literature studies, Chinese ethnic policy studies, history of Chinese minority relations, history of Chinese minority ethnic groups, Tibetan language and literature studies, Uyghur language studies and applications, literature translation studies, and so on.

Employment Prospects: Mainly employed in minority education and culture departments and related organizations.

Enrollment: ★

Chinese minority languages and literature are distinctive and specialized in both language and literature. There are few colleges and universities and most of them are in the western region. Due to the limitation of language, most of the applicants are local or national candidates. Its academic research specialization, enrollment is very limited, so the number of applicants is also relatively small.

7, Ancient Chinese Literature:

Professional Introduction: Ancient Chinese Literature is one of the most fascinating parts of traditional Chinese culture. This program is based on the history of the development of ancient literature, the evolution of literary genres, writers' works, literary genres, literary phenomena, canonical books, literary theories, the relationship between literature in each period, and so on as the object of study, and therefore requires candidates to have a certain degree of ancient literature and the ability to appreciate literature, familiar with the development of the literature of a certain period of history.

Research directions: pre-Qin and Han literature, Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang literature, Song and Yuan literature, Ming and Qing literature, and modern literature, history of split literature, and ancient literary theories.

Employment Prospects: In recent years, the rise of the "nationalism fever" to revitalize the ancient Chinese literature profession, the number of students enrolled in this specialty, graduates are engaged in teaching, cultural propaganda, academic and scientific research, news and publishing editorial work.

Enrollment: ★★★★

Many graduate students majoring in ancient literature believe that they chose this specialty because of their interest rather than its practical value. In fact, judging from the situation in recent years, interest in ancient literature seems to have become the orientation of the whole society. This makes the original heat stable ancient literature major more and more hot, in 2007, Peking University's admission ratio as high as 3:100.

8, Chinese modern and contemporary literature:

Professional introduction: Chinese modern and contemporary literature specializes in focusing on the close integration of academic and scientific research and practical issues. It mainly reviews the literary theories and literary trends since the 20th century, conducts in-depth research on the historical development of modern and contemporary literature, the flow of ideas, literary groups, writers and works, and explores the links between literature and vernacular culture, Enlightenment culture, and political ideology, and, with a broad vision, combines the emerging research methods, placing the traditional study of literature in the ever increasing "modernization" and "modernization". With a broad vision, combined with emerging research methods, the study of traditional literature is placed in the ever-increasing process of "modernization" and "globalization", in order to understand and respond to the new literary and cultural issues brought about by the great changes in contemporary society. Chinese modern and contemporary literature at Peking University and Nanjing University is a national key discipline.

Specialties of study: modern Chinese literature, contemporary Chinese literature, children's literature, theater, film and television literature, science fiction literature, folk literature, contemporary culture and literary studies, twentieth-century Chinese literary trends, modern and contemporary Chinese literature and vernacular culture.

Employment Prospects: Generally employed in enterprises, colleges and universities, cultural units, news publishing organizations.

Enrollment heat: ★★★★

Because of the enrollment of modern and contemporary literature, strong sense of the times, the knowledge covers a shorter period of time, easy to start and review, become the first choice of many cross-major students. Coupled with the broad space for further study in this specialty, the number of applicants for this specialty has been high, and the situation has been particularly prominent in the past two years, with the acceptance rate of 6%, 9% and 7% for Peking University, Nanjing University and Beijing Normal University in 2007, and the degree of popularity can be seen from this.