Jonathan Webster, Professor, City University of Hong KongXuanwei Peng, Professor, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China

• Foreword, Huang GuowenEditors’ Preface, Peng Xuanwei & Jonathan WebsterPart 1: Perspectives on the State of the Art in China: from the outside looking in1. The contribution of Systemic Functional Theory to linguistics in China, M.A.K. Halliday2. Teaching systemic functional linguistics in China: One visiting professor’s view, James MartinPart 2: Showcasing the State of the Art in ChinaIntroduction, Hu ZhuanglinGraphology and Phonology3. Stroke systems in Chinese characters: A Systemic Functional perspective on simplified regular script, Peng Xuanwei4. A corpus-based Systemic Functional phonological approach to modern Chinese modal particles, Liu ChengyuLexis5. Emotion verbs and emotion verbs in Chinese: Their distinctions and sub-classifications based on configurative facts, Song Chengfang6. Verb types, process types and incident structure: From lexis to discourse semantics, Lu Guoyan & Gao YanmeiWord Group7. Structure and function of measure nominals in English and Chinese, Yang Bingjun8. Systemic Functional Study of the Chinese Temporal System: Marked Chinese tenses, He Wei & Ma RuizhiClause and Clause Complex9. Range characteristics in material clauses in Mandarin Chinese, Yang Guowen10. Chinese Characteristics of Clause Complex: A Systemic Functional account, Hsu Fu-mei Text11. Generic distributions of English Appraisal categories based on Appraisal corpus, Yu Li, Peng Xuanwei, He Zhongqing, Liu Yujie, Zhang Ranran, Tan Xianfang & Wang YuyingTypology12. Lexis-grammar complementarity and system of Person: A Systemic typological perspective, Wang PinSemiotics13. Issues concerning the disciplinary status of semiotics, Hu ZhuanglinMultimodality14. Lexicogrammar and text in multimodal discourse analysis, Zhang Delu15. A study of multimodal engagement resources and voice interaction in pedagogic discourse, Chen Yumin16. Meaning-making in multimodal visual narrative: patterns of visual weaving, Yang Xiran & Jonathan WebsterStylistics17. Ways of illustrating and ways of explicating: Multimodal symbolic articulation in illustrated Shih-shuo Hsin-yü, Liu Shisheng & Song ChengfangTranslation18. Searching for Metafunctional equivalence in translated texts, Huang GuowenTeaching19. Genres in Chinese MA theses: a SFL-based contrastive analysis and implications for teaching, SunYinghui & Ju ZhiqinLexicography20. Defining English idioms in a bilingual learner's dictionary: applications of Systemic Functional Linguistics in lexicography, Chang ChenguangRegister variation21. The linguistic features of knowledge construction in Chemistry textbooks, Yang XinzhangReferencesIndex

This volume is a meticulous and valuable resource of articulating the state of the art of SFL in China for the linguists and the students who are fascinated with Chinese and/or SFL. The contributors not only lead the way to SFL founded by Halliday ... but also show their specific scenes that they have cultivated rooted in China. The 21 papers illustrate the insightful points of the developments of SFL in different areas in China as to be considered as an invaluable academic collection.