Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 English-Chinese Contrastive Studies in the First Half of the 20th Century: The Pioneering Stage 2.1 Contrastive Studies Under the Guidance of General Grammar 2.1.1 Contributions of Ma Jianzhong 2.1.2 Contributions of Li Jinxi 2.1.3 Contributions of Chen Chengze 2.2 Contrastive Studies Under the Guidance of General Linguistics 2.2.1 Contributions of Wang Li 2.2.2 Contributions of Lu Shuxiang 2.2.3 Contributions of Gao Mingkai 2.2.4 Contributions of Chao Yuen Ren 2.2.5 Contributions of Yang Shuda 2.2.6 Contributions of Yen Fuh 2.2.7 Contributions of Lin Yutang 2.2.8 More Noteworthy Contributions 2.3 Summary Chapter 3 English-Chinese Contrastive Studies in the 1950s and 1960s: The Stagnation Stage 3.1 English-Chinese Micro-Contrastive Studies for the Purpose of TEFL and Translation 3.1.1 Contributions of Loh Dianyang 3.1.2 Contributions of Zhang Peiji 3.1.3 Contributions of Ch'ien Chungshu 3.1.4 More Noteworthy Contributions 3.2 Breakthroughs in the English-Chinese Contrastive Studies Under the Guidance of General Linguistics 3.2.1 More Contributions of Chao Yuen Ren 3.2.2 More Noteworthy Contributions 3.3 Summary Chapter 4 English-Chinese Contrastive Linguistics in the 1970s and 1980s: The Restoration Stage 4.1 The Improvement of Social Climate for Research 4.2 The Onset of Contrastive Linguistics and the Appearance of Contrastive Theorizing 4.2.1 The Institutional Establishment of Education and Research in Contrastive Linguistics in Universities 4.2.2 The Academic Establishment of the Discipline and the Appearance of Contrastive Theorizing 4.3 Broad Scope of Contrastive Linguistics and Narrow Focus of Micro- Contrastive Studies 4.4 The Appearance of Macro-Contrastive Studies at the Facets of Discourse, Pragmatics, Rhetorics, Cognition, Psychology and Culture 4.5 Summary Chapter 5 English-Chinese Contrastive Linguistics from the 1990s to the Present: The Prosperous Stage 5.1 The Consolidation of Academic Foothold, the Expansion of Research Teams and the Increase of Scholarly Publishing 5.1.1 The Publication of Influential Collections of Contrastive Theses ... 5.1.2 Contrastive Educational and Research Programs in Universities 5.1.3 The Founding of China Association for Comparative Studies of English and Chinese (CACSEC) and Its Active Operation 5.2 Intensive Theorizing on Contrastive Linguistics as a Discipline 5.2.1 The Explicit Definition, Scope, Classification, Theoretical Framework of Contrastive Linguistic Inquiry 5.2.2 Intensive Theorizing on the Discipline and Its Methodology 5.2.3 The Active Introduction of the Western Linguistic Theories and Research Methodology and Intensive Interdisciplinary Approaches to Contrastive Linguistic Studies 5.2.4 The Presence of Historical Studies on the Contrastive Linguistics in China 5.3 Novel Contrastive Perspectives and Methodologies and Diversified Theoretical and Methodological Approaches 5.3.1 The Active Pursuit of New Perspectives and Methodologies 5.3.2 The Popularization of Corpus Linguistic Method 5.4 The Narrower Focus of Micro-Contrastive Studies 5.5 Broader and More In-Depth Macro-Contrastive Studies and Micro-Macro Combined Approaches 5.6 Summary Chapter 6 English-Chinese Contrastive Linguistics in China: Limitations and Prospect 6.1 The Limitations of English-Chinese Contrastive Linguistics in China 6.1.1 Lack of Both Original Innovation and Schools of Thoughts in Contrastive Linguistics in China 6.1.2 Lack of Academic Contentions and Queries 6.1.3 Lack of Historical Studies on the Discipline 6.1.4 Gap Between Domestic and International Corpus-Based Contrastive Studies 6.1.5 Lack of English Semantic Competence and Publication in English 6.1.6 Dominance of Rationalism and Lack of Human-Centered Philosophy in Contrastive Research Among TESOL Practitioners 6.2 The Prospect of English-Chinese Contrastive Linguistics in China Bibliography Index
