The College of Chinese Language and Literature, Guizhou University, is inherited primarily from the National Guizhou University’s Department of Chinese Literature founded in 1942. In 2004, the former departments of language and literature, history and philosophy were merged as the College of Humanities. In May 2016,theformer departments of Chinese language and literatureandjournalismintheCollege ofHumanities were mergedasthe College of Literature andJournalism. In April 2023, theformer Department ofChinese Language and Literature inthe College of Literature andJournalismwas reorganized to form the College ofChinese Language and Literature.
There are44staff members in the college currently,including 12professors, 13 associate professors and 15 lecturers for teaching and researching, 30 doctors, 2 doctoral candidates, and 5 masters in academic degree, and 23 supervisors for postgraduates. The faculty team takes on a reasonable age structure and a complete set of professional and academic titles. The college offers a bachelor's degree program in Chinese Language and Literature, which has been enrolling since 1942. This program was identified as a key discipline of Guizhou University in the early 1990s, designated as a branded specialty of Guizhou University and exemplary specialty ofGuizhou province in 2007, and was successfully listed in the national specialty project in 2008, and further listed in the branded specialty project of Guizhou University in 2013, then listed in the “first-class undergraduate specialty” project of Guizhou province in 2017. It was ranked thefirst in the evaluation of Chinese language and literature programs in Guizhou province in 2018, and was designated as a national “first-class undergraduate program” in 2019.
Since itsestablishment,many well-known scholars such as Xie Liuyi, Tan Jiefu, Yao Dianzhong, Tang Bingzheng, Zhang Ruzhou, Jiang Xiwen, Wang Ying, etc. have taught here, andmore than 6,000students havegraduated here.As a remarkable result, Ithas cultivated agalaxyof high-qualityand favoredtalents, includingacademicresearchers and teachers who have achieved fruitfullyin high-education and research institutions, as well as well-known writers nationwide. For instance,Liu Yangzhong, former directorof theAncient Literature ResearchOffice,Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences;Peng Zhaorong,doctoral supervisor,Xiamen University;Xu Xinjian, doctoralsupervisor,Sichuan University;Chen Yuehong, formerdean, Department ofChineseLanguage and Literature,Peking University;Jiang Nanhua, former president,Guizhou Academy of Social Sciences;Huang Wanjiand Wang Hongru,academic researchers,Institute ofLiterature,Guizhou Academy of Social Sciences;He Shiguang,,well-known writer,chairmanof theGuizhou Federation of Literaryand ArtCircles;Ouyang Qiansen,renowned writer, winner of the Lu Xun Literature Prize, chairmanof theGuizhouWriters’Association,and so on.At the same time, many graduates have become senior officials in various departments of our province's Party, government, and military. In recent years,in addition to continuing tostudy formaster's degree, thegraduatesinChineselanguage andliteratureofGuizhou University have mainly workedfor the administrative organs andpropagandadepartments of variousmajor newspapers, magazines, radio stations, TV stations,Party andgovernmentoffices, enterprisesandcompanies, as well as schoolsand other units.Thanksto their solidprofessionalfoundation,strong comprehensive abilitiesandgreat potential for development, thegraduatesinChineselanguage andliteratureof Guizhou Universityare highlyevaluated byemployers generallyand have made significant contributions to thesociety, economy and culture.
In the early 1980s, the Department ofChinese Language and LiteratureofGuizhou Universitywasdesignated asone of the first-batchnational sections formaster's degree authorization in Chineselanguage andliterature.It wasdesignated,further in the early 1990s, asasection formaster's degree authorization inancient Chineseliterature, andin 2010,as afirst-level disciplinesection formaster’sdegreeauthorization inChineselanguage andliterature.At present, the college offersanacademic master's degree program inthe fields of literature and arts, Chineselanguage andlinguistics,classicalChinesephilology,ancientChineseliterature,modern andcontemporary Chineseliterature, andcomparativeliterature andworldliterature.
College of Chinese Language and Literature, Guizhou University
