An Introduction to Chinese Culture for Teachers of Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages

Du Daoming, a professor and doctor supervisor at the Chinese Culture Research Institute of Beijing Language and Culture University, serves as a director of the Chinese Association of Quyuan and a director of the Association for Yan Huang Culture of China, etc. He is mainly engaged in research on literary aesthetics, classical literature and Chinese culture. Professor Du has been invited to give lectures at the Department of Sinology of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, and the Matsuyama University, Japan. He has published many monographs, including Taoism and Liberation, The Road to Harmony: China’s Harmonious Culture and Aesthetics, An Examination of Aesthetic Culture in Ancient China, and An Introduction to the Culture of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language and co-authored Introduction and Comment on Figures in Wen Xin Diao Long and Appreciation and Analysis of Jiang Kui’s Poetry. Meanwhile, he has published more than 70 academic papers in core journals at home and abroad.