This Contemporary Chinese Grammar and its Exercise Book are specially complied for Chinese language students and teachers as well. They provide a systematic account of grammatical forms and the way they are used in standard modern Chinese, with emphasis on both theoretical explanations and practical trainings to develop the readers’ integrated skills of Chinese at the intermediate and advanced levels. After completing reading/studying them, the readers are expected to lay a strong grammatical and logical foundation, to understand Chinese from an academic perspective, and to use Chinese accurately and elegantly based on the grammar and logic.