作者简介

刘月华

毕业于北京大学中文系。原为北京语言学院教授，1989年赴美，先后在卫斯理学院、麻省理工学院、哈佛大学教授中文。主要从事现代汉语语法，特别是对外汉语教学语法研究。近年编写了多部对外汉语教材。主要著作有《实用现代汉语语法》（合作）、《趋向补语通释》、《汉语语法论集》等，对外汉语教材有《中文听说读写》（主编）、《走进中国百姓生活——中高级汉语视听说教程》（合作）等。

储诚志

夏威夷大学博士，戴维斯加州大学东亚语文系中文部主任，校第二语言习得研究所执行理事，语言学系研究生（硕博士）导师组成员。主要专业兼职为全美中文教师学会常务理事和加州中文教师协会副会长。曾在斯坦福大学、北京语言学院等学校任教多年。研究领域为汉语语言学，认知语义学，汉语L2的教学和习得，语料库和计量语言学，以及电脑技术在汉语教学中的应用。发表中英文学术论文20余篇，专著《位移事件在中文里的认知和表达》即将出版；主持完成“汉语中介语语料库系统”和中文L2教材编写软件“中文助教（ChineseTA）”等多个中文L2研究项目。

赵绍玲

笔名向娅，中国记者协会会员，中国作家协会会员。主要作品有报告文学集《二十四人的性爱世界》、《国际航线上的中国空姐》、《国际航线上的奇闻秘事》等，电视艺术片《凝固的情感》、《希望之光》等。多部作品被改编成广播剧、电影、电视连续剧，获各类奖项多次。

Yuehua Liu

A graduate of the Chinese Department of Peking University, Yuehua Liu was Professor in Chinese at the Beijing Language and Culture University. In 1989, she continued her professional career in the United States and had taught Chinese at Wellesley College, MIT, and Harvard University for many years. Her re-search concentrated on modern Chinese grammar, especially grammar for teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Her major publications include Practical Modern Chinese Grammar(co-au-thor), Comprehensive Studies of Chinese Directional Comple-ments, and Writings on Chinese Grammar as well as the Chinese textbook series Integrated Chinese (chief editor) and the au-dio-video textbook set Learning Advanced Colloquial Chinese from TV(co-author).

Chengzhi Chu

Ph.D., University of Hawaii. Chu is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Chinese Language Program at the University of California, Davis, where he also serves on the Executive Board of the Second Language Acquisition Institute and is a member of the Graduate Faculty Group of Linguistics. He is a board member of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (USA) and Vice President of the Chinese Language Teachers Association of Cali-fornia. He taught at Stanford University and Beijing Language and Culture University for many years. He has published more than 20 articles on topics in Chinese linguistics, Chinese peda-gogy, and cognitive semantics, and has a forthcoming book on motion conceptualization and representation in Chinese. He was PI of two major software projects in Chinese pedagogy and ac-quisition: Chinese TA and the Corpus of Chinese Interlanguage.

Shaoling Zhao

With Xiangya as her pen name, Shaoling Zhao is an award-winning Chinese writer. She is a member of the All-China Writers Association and the All-China Journalists Association. She authored many influential reportages and television play and film scripts, including Hostesses on International Airlines, Con-cretionary Affection, and The Silver Lining.