WU Zhongwei is Professor at the School of International Cultural Exchange, Fudan University, National Outstanding Teacher of Chinese as a Foreign Language (2002), Council Member and Vice Chairperson of the Curriculum and Teaching Materials Committee of the International Society for Chinese Language Teaching. His main research areas are modern Chinese grammar, teaching Chinese as a foreign language and Chinese language education textbook development. His major works include A Study on the Sentence Topic in Modern Chinese; How to Teach Grammar: Theory and Practice of Grammar Teaching, Task-Based Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language (co-author), Teaching Methods of Chinese as a Foreign Language (textbook, co-edited); An Introduction to Modern Chinese (co-edited), and Practical Chinese Grammar for Teachers (co-edited).