Prof. Cheng Ping, the world-famous linguist, Director of Confucius Institute at the University of Queensland, Australia visited SMU Foreign Languages College. He made an academic report titled the Past, Present and Future of Chinese Linguistics Studies.
On his lecture, Prof. Chen introduced the traditions of Chinese language research, made summarizations on the research achievements after the era of “Ma Shi Wen Tong”, and further pointed out the future research areas. Followed the lecture, he answered questions raised by students and teachers.