(1) Han-character education: including theoretical frameworks, teaching and learning materials, pedagogical strategies, information technology in Han character education; classical or literary Chinese among others.

(2) Research on Han-characters: including history, philology, theoretical studies, annotation, graphemic analysis, etc.

(3) Classical Chinese education: including Classical Chinese educational theory, teaching materials, pedagogy, assessments etc.

(4) Other related areas: e.g. research on Chinese language teaching and Chinese linguistics.