Research on the Chinese Characters in Cross-strait Chinese Textbooks — Through Comparing of the Unified Edition and Hanlin Edition Chinese Textbooks for Elementary Education_INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AND CULTURE CENTER FOR ACADEMIC CONTACTS (ISCCAC)

Publisher:ISCCAC

Research on the Chinese Characters in Cross-strait Chinese Textbooks — Through Comparing of the Unified Edition and Hanlin Edition Chinese Textbooks for Elementary Education

Authors

Yanmei Zhang, Jiali Chi, Zhan Lv, Lingzhi Zhang, Qi Yi, Mengru Tang, Yang Yu, Qian Hu, Yuxin Hong, Zhuojun Xiang, Ruichi Zheng

Corresponding Author

Lingzhi Zhang

Publishing Date

28 December 2023

Keywords

Commonly used characters, Quantitative analysis, Unified Edition Chinese Textbooks, Hanlin Edition Chinese Textbooks, Character types.

Abstract

Comparative analysis of Chinese textbooks used in elementary education across the Straits has always been a hot topic in the academic community. In this context, this essay investigates the characters in Chinese textbooks across the Straits by comparing the Unified edition and the Hanlin edition. The investigation reveals that the total number of characters and the number of character types used in the Unified edition textbooks are more than those in the Hanlin edition textbooks. Therefore, students who study the Unified edition textbooks are required to have higher reading and literacy skills. The high-frequency characters of the two textbooks are very similar, with a large number of common characters. Therefore, it is greatly beneficial for educational exchanges between the mainland and Taiwan.

Copyright

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license

Download article (PDF)