This is a practical grammar textbook written for intermediate and advanced learners who take Chinese as a second language. "Chinese Grammar : From Knowledge to Competence (Chinese-English Bilingual)" breaks the framework of theoretical grammar. From the perspective of helping learners understand the basic structure of Chinese sentences and improve their grammatical ability, it arranges relevant language items. There are a total of 20 lectures, divided into two volumes. The first 12 lectures in the first volume mainly cover grammar related to the main components of sentences. The last 8 lectures in the second volume mainly cover grammar in the aspects of tense and modality. Each lecture is decomposed and processed according to the internal logic of knowledge points, step by step. It is in Chinese-English bilingual form and is supplemented by a large number of lively and interesting targeted exercises. This textbook strives to guide learners to discover grammatical rules by themselves and pay attention to grammatical forms in a meaningful communicative context.

At the same time, this is also a reference book for grammar teaching, condensing the editor's more than ten years of grammar teaching accumulation. Young novice teachers and postgraduate students majoring in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages can learn about the relevant teaching knowledge of basic grammar items in teaching Chinese as a second language from it, experience a complete grammar teaching design and teaching methods, and understand the common errors in learners' grammar learning. By scanning the QR code in the book, one can more intuitively see the editor's live video and teaching plan of grammar teaching, understand the unique compilation concept of this book, and easily start grammar teaching of Chinese as a second language.