"This highly valuable reference book for Chinese language professionals and students is an impressive product of the extensive knowledge and experience of Dr Xing, who is an accomplished discourse grammarian, outstanding teacher, and experienced language

"Xing builds upon an impressively broad base of research in language acquisition and pedagogy, as well as some of the most important Chinese linguistic studies. From the dual perspectives of a learner and teacher of Chinese, it is a book that is of great

Janet Zhiqun Xing is an associate professor of Chinese and linguistics at Western Washington University. She specializes in discourse analysis, historical linguistics, and teaching Chinese as a second language.