(1) Han character education / Chinese language education: including theoretical frameworks, teaching and learning materials, pedagogical strategies, assessment, teaching Han characters / Chinese language as mother-tongue or foreign language etc
(2) Research on Han characters: including history, philology, theoretical studies, annotation, graphemic analysis, etc.
(3) Research on Han characters and linguistics: including characters and the uniqueness of Chinese, Chinese characters and mindset, research on character-based language theory, character-based and Chinese teaching in international context etc.
(4) Classical Chinese / ‘Hanmun’ education: including educational theory, teaching materials, pedagogy, assessments etc.
(5) Other related areas