In this paper, the issues related to the goal of historical syntax of Chinese are discussed, and the preliminary conclusion is that the goal of historical syntax of Chinese are: firstly, to generalize the regularity of the syntactic changes, secondly, to explain the syn-chronic variations in the contemporary Chinese, thirdly, to predict the directions of the syntactic changes in the future.

Two Reading Notes About "A Historical Grammar of Modern Chinese"

A study of Bing Xins prose writing from the relationship between the texts and the historical context;

Under the new historical context,facing the tempestuous trend of the market-oriented economy,should the intellectual stand fast or develop what is useful and discard what is not? The wit experiences of from Gao Li-wei in Ever to Be the End of the Earth to Chi Da-wei in Water of the Canglang River provide us a handicapped but feasible resolution.