(1) Han character education: including theoretical frameworks, teaching and learning materials, pedagogical strategies, assessment, teaching Han characters as second 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 thinking, research on character-based language theory, character-based and Chinese teaching in international context, etc.

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

(5) Other related areas: research on Chinese language teaching and Chinese linguistics.