The undergraduate education of Chinese department in colleges and universities is carried out according to five Chinese undergraduate majors: literature, language, classical literature, applied linguistics and Chinese language and literature for foreign students.

In addition, the Chinese Department of Peking University also undertakes the compulsory course College Chinese. Postgraduate courses 126, including 28 compulsory courses, and general education courses and large-scale platform courses account for about 30% of the whole school's courses.

The Chinese Department is also the only department in China with five Chinese undergraduate majors: China Literature, Chinese Language, Classical Philology, Applied Linguistics (Chinese Information Processing) and Chinese Language and Literature (foreign students).

China Ancient Literature Research Center and China Linguistics Research Center are two key research bases of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, and the secretariat of the National College Ancient Books Arrangement Committee of the Ministry of Education is affiliated to the Chinese Department of Peking University. In addition, there are four influential research institutions at home and abroad, such as Sinology Research Institute, International Sinologist Training Base, China Poetry Research Institute and China Education Research Institute.

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Postgraduate majors offered by Chinese Department generally include literature and art, China ancient literature, China modern and contemporary literature, comparative literature and world literature, Chinese philology, linguistics and applied linguistics, China classical philology, drama, film and television literature, subject teaching (Chinese), curriculum and teaching theory, etc.

Take the Chinese Department of Peking University as an example. After years of efforts, the Chinese Department of Peking University has developed into the largest Chinese Department in China. There are four undergraduate majors (China literature, China linguistics, classical philology and applied linguistics), two research institutes (ancient literature and comparative literature) and two research centers (China linguistics and 20th century China culture).

There are 2 national key bases for teaching and research (China Basic Discipline and Classical Literature Research Base), 6 national key disciplines and 8 doctoral programs (Literature and Art, China Ancient Literature, China Modern and Contemporary Literature, Comparative Literature and World Literature, China Philology, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, China Classical Philology and Folk Literature), 12 master's degree programs, 1 postdoctoral mobile.

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