This book collects 31 papers in total, which cover various areas, such as the macro study of Chinese language history, the study of history vocabulary, the historical studies of parts of speech and morphology, the historical studies of sentence pattern and syntax, the study of Chinese language dictionaries etc. It involves the history of Chinese vocabulary, grammar and linguistics etc.
Hua Xuecheng, Director, Professor and PhD. students' supervisor of College of Humanities and Social Science, Beijing Language and Culture University, plays a leading role in the study of Chinese ancient document. His major research interests are history of Chinese language and document of ancient linguistics. He also studies characters and explanations of words in ancient books.