On 13 May 2025, the Eleventh “Academic Frontiers Series Workshop, Jingshi Academy”, jointly organized by the School of Chinese Language and Literature and the Institute of Chinese Culture|Jingshi Academy at Beijing Normal University, was successfully held in Beijing. The theme of the Workshop was “Multi-field and Intercultural Understanding of Linguistic Terminology”. The T. T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre (CLRC) of the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS), CUHK and the Institute of Education of University College London participated in this Workshop. The Workshop received academic support from leading journals such as Studies in Chinese Linguistics and Current Research in Chinese Linguistics.

Prof. Tang Sze Wing, Director of CLRC, delivered a keynote speech on “Multi-field Understanding of Linguistic Terminology”. He raised the problem of inconsistency in linguistic terminology and advocated for an initiative within the academic community to systematically organize and standardize linguistic terminology. Terminology research plays an important role in advancing standardization of terminology, laying the groundwork for unified linguistic terms, and enhancing the professional identity of the discipline. Also, he pointed out that the construction of terminology corpus is conducive to the editing of academic journals and contributes towards the development of an independent knowledge system in China. Overall, the Workshop provided an interdisciplinary perspective for the study of linguistic terminology. Terminology standardization was not only the cornerstone for development of disciplines, but also the key link for the international dissemination of Chinese culture.

In the future, it is necessary to strengthen the balance of terminology standardization between localization and internationalization and promote the global expression of Chinese academic achievements.

On 21–22 June 2025, the 11th Inter-Regional Forum on Dialectal Grammar, hosted by the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Sun Yat-sen University and co-organized by the T. T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre (CLRC) of the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) at CUHK, was held at Sun Yat-sen University. Over 30 presenters were selected through a call for papers to share their findings at the Forum. They are from 17 institutions, including (in alphabetical order) Beijing Normal University, Chengdu University, China Foreign Affairs University, Fudan University, Hainan Normal University, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Nanyang Technological University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shenzhen University, South China Normal University, Sun Yat-sen University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The Open University of China, The University of Hong Kong, Wenzhou University of Technology, and Xiamen University. Prof. Tang Sze Wing, Director of CLRC, also attended the Forum.

The Forum covered Yue, Hakka, Min, Wu, Xiang, Hui, Mandarin, and other dialects, and discussed the issue of “sentence-final particle clusters” in Chinese dialects. In general, sentence-final particle clusters show that Mandarin is relatively simple and the southern dialects are relatively complex, and there are significant differences within the dialects, which needs further research. Young researchers, particularly those who can speak dialects, are encouraged to continue paying attention to the co-occurrence of sentence-final particles and strengthen the interface research of phonetics/phonology, semantics, and syntax.

The 12th Inter-Regional Forum on Dialectal Grammar will be held in 2026 at Fudan University. The topic and the dates will be announced later. Interested parties are advised to stay tuned for updates.