Introduction to the Faculty of Chinese Linguistics & Literature
The Faculty of Chinese Linguistics & Literature (formerly the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Guangxi College for Nationalities) was established in 1960. In 2000, it merged with the Department of Ethnic Languages and Literatures, the Center for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, and the College Chinese Teaching and Research Section to form the School of Chinese Language and Literature. It was renamed the Faculty of Chinese Linguistics & Literature in 2006.
The Faculty began enrolling undergraduate students in Chinese Language and Literature in 1960;introduced an undergraduate track in Zhuang Language and Literature in 1983; launched an undergraduate program in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language in 1999; and added an undergraduate specialization in Yao Language and Literature in 2015.
In terms of graduate education, the Faculty was authorized to confer master’s degrees in Chinese Minority Languages and Literatures in 1998; received approval for the Master of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (MTCSOL) program in 2009; obtained the first-level discipline master’s degree authorization in Chinese Language and Literature in 2010; and was granted the first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization in Chinese Language and Literature in 2013.
Currently, the Faculty employs 84 staff members, including 69 full-time faculty members — 24 holding senior (full professor) rank and 22 holding associate senior (associate professor) rank. Since its founding, nearly 18,000 undergraduate students have graduated from it.
The Faculty offers a complete talent development system encompassing bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs. It holds:
A first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization in Chinese Language and Literature,
A first-level discipline master’s degree authorization in Chinese Language and Literature,
A professional master’s degree authorization in International Chinese Language Education (MTCSOL).
Chinese Language and Literature has been selected for Guangxi’s “Top Discipline” Construction Program. Both Chinese Language and Literature and Chinese Minority Languages and Literatures are designated as National First-Class
Undergraduate Programs, while International Chinese Language Education is recognized as a Guangxi Provincial First-Class Undergraduate Program.
The Faculty benefits from an outstanding teaching team, profound academic heritage, a rigorous yet pragmatic scholarly ethos, extensive library resources, advanced experimental facilities, and broad academic networks—all of which provide strong support for student learning and development.
Adhering to an “open” educational philosophy, the Faculty actively deepens international collaboration and expands partnerships with universities and research institutions worldwide. It engages in substantive cooperation in areas such as student and faculty exchanges, talent cultivation, academic conferences, and joint research, continuously enhancing its disciplinary influence.
The Faculty is committed to cultivating high-quality, globally competent talent. To date, it has welcomed over one hundred international students from countries including Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos, Indonesia, Brazil, Poland, Mongolia, Portugal, Kyrgyzstan, and Nigeria. Meanwhile, more than one thousand of its domestic students have participated in exchange programs or professional internships in countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Laos, South Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom,South Africa, and Australia — making significant contributions to telling China’s story well and supporting the advancement of Chinese modernization.
In 2020, the National Language Promotion Base hosted by the Faculty was included in the first batch of bases officially accredited by the Language Application and Management Department of China’s Ministry of Education.
Additionally, the Faculty hosts several key platforms:
The Guangxi Research Center for Protection and Inheritance of Ethnic Cultures, designated as one of Guangxi’s first provincial-level Key Research Bases for Humanities and Social Sciences in Higher Education;
The Guangxi Undergraduate Specialized Training and Experimental Teaching Base for International Chinese Language Education, among the province’s first specialized practice bases for undergraduate programs;
The Language Museum of Guangxi Minzu University, There are two permanent thematic exhibitions in the museum: "China-Southeast Asia Language and Culture Exhibition" and "World Logographic Characters Culture Exhibition".featuring exhibition halls dedicated to ethnic minority languages, Chinese dialects, Southeast Asian languages, and digital linguistics — currently the largest and most systematically organized physical language museum in China.
