The college of Chinese Language and Literature was founded in June 2008 on the basis of the former Department of Chinese by merging with the History specialty at the former Department of Political Science and Law. The history of the college of Chinese Language and Literature dates back to the Department of Chinese, which was set up in 1949.

         The college now has seventy-three teaching and administrative staff members, sixty-three of whom are full-time teachers, including seventeen professors, thirty-seven associate professors, twenty-seven PhDs, and fourteen master’s degree holders. Teachers with a senior professional or technical title account for 85.7 % of the faculty, while those with a master’s degree or higher make up 65.1 %. Moreover, there are three experts receiving the special State Council subsidy, five provincial “Excellent Experts”, one provincial “Key Discipline” leader, two provincial “Master Teachers”, and five university-level “Master Teachers”. Currently, the college has 2,013 full-time undergraduates (including thirty-three overseas students taking undergraduate courses) and eighty-eight postgraduates.

         There are four departments in the college, the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, the Department of Chinese Teaching, the Department of Journalism and Communication, and the Department of History. Furthermore, the following education institutions are affiliated with the college: the Hainan Provincial Research Base for South China Sea Regional Culture, the Research Center of Chinese Prose, the Media Development Research Center, the Institute of Contemporary Hainan Literature, and the Institute of Chinese Culture.

         The college now offers one major with provincial characteristics: Chinese Language and Literature; one university-level key major: Chinese Language and Literature; four master’s degree programs: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, Literature and Art Theory, Comparative Literature and World Literature, and Specialized History; one pending doctoral degree program: Chinese Language and Literature; two first-category master’s degree majors: Chinese Language and Literature, and History; one provincial “Key Discipline”: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature; one provincial teaching team: Ancient Chinese Literature; one provincial “Key Course”: Chinese Language, and five provincial quality courses: Chinese Language, Ancient Chinese Literature, Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, the History of Chinese Literary Criticism, and Ancient Chinese History.

         Chinese Language and Literature is a university-level “Key Discipline”, and is comprised of twenty-one PhDs, twelve professors and twenty-five associate professors, while the discipline of Modern and Contemporary Literature, a provincial “Key Discipline” in Hainan’s institutions of higher learning, was authorized to grant master’s degrees in 2003. The discipline has drawn much attention from the learning establishment nationwide for its distinctive academic features characterized by studies on contemporary Chinese writers and works represented by Fang Fuxian, studies on the ideological trend and schools of modern Chinese literature represented by Xu Zhongjia, and studies on regional culture and Hainan literature typified by Bi Guangming. In addition, the specialty of Chinese language studies, founded in 2007 and offering undergraduate education of Chinese to overseas students, falls within the discipline of Chinese Language and Literature.

         Contact Information

         Telephone: 0898-65736601 (office)

         Address: College of Chinese Language and Literature

                 Hainan Normal University

                 No. 99, South Longkun Road

                 Haikou, Hainan Province

                 Postal Code: 571158