The Department of Chinese Language is one of the first disciplines established at the KIU-NRZ.The Department offers a wide range of courses on the languages, literatures and cultures of China.
We particularly emphasize collaboration and exchange with overseas universities.We have established an academic partnership with Chinese departments in leading universities.
Chinese (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. 'Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages[d] spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China, as well as by various communities of the Chinese diaspora.
The first written records appeared over 3,000 years ago during the Shang dynasty.
Standard Chinese is an official language of both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan)and one of the four official languages of Singapore.
Mission
• The Department of Chinese Language and Literature aims to cultivate competent talent with proper understanding of the way of thinking and anthropogeography of the Chinese people by learning their universal mentality, lifestyle by region, cultural psychology, and direction of future changes.
• Outstanding teaching, excellent research, comprehensive equipment, and a comfortable environment.
• Course design cultivates practical and diversified professional abilities in students through the emphasis on cultivating theories and abilities in Chinese language teaching; the deepening of literacy in Chinese literature, history, and philosophy; the training of teaching second-language acquisition; and the reinforcement of digital application skills.
Short Term Programs