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William Wang founded the Journal of Chinese Linguistics at Berkeley in 1973, and continues to be its editor. He was the Inaugural President of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, founded in 1992. His writings have appeared in many specialized journals as well as in general publications, including Nature, PNAS, American Scientist, and Scientific American. He has held various appointments in China, India, Italy, Japan, and Sweden. Chaofen Sun is Professor at Stanford University and was Yangtze Scholar at Beijing Language and Culture University. His areas of scholarship are in morphosyntactic changes in the history of Chinese, sociolinguistics and Chinese syntax. He has done extensive research on Chinese historical linguistics, functional linguistics and Chinese language education.This comprehensive, highly-informative, and thought-provoking handbook is an extraordinary treasure trove of information about Chinese linguistics that are of wider theoretical significance. The Handbook should be required reading for any graduate students in Chinese linguistics. It will undoubtedly serve as an indispensable reference for any scholar working on issues in/related to Chinese linguistics. Indeed anyone with interests in general linguistics will find this Handbook constructive.
Danjie Su (University of Arkansas), Studies in Language Vol. 41:4
Addressing almost all the important aspects of Chinese linguistics by experts in their field, this book is a useful guide for academic scholars as well as learned readers to understand the latest issues and key findings in this field ... Ultimately, this handbook serves as an essential reference for scholars and readers who are interested in investigating the classical problems and recent advances in Chinese linguistics.
Wenjia Ma, Chinese Language and Discourse