The centre is committed to promoting scholarly research on Chinese language teaching and learning and dedicated to creating a research platform to develop promising research on Chinese language teaching and learning as a new frontier in tertiary education.

Established in 2001, the Hong Kong Literature Research Centre (HKLRC) is the nexus of Hong-Kong-related literary research, teaching, outreach and exchange across the CUHK campus.

Established in 2000, the centre is committed to conducting and actively supporting scholarly research on Cantonese language and linguistics from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives by means of conferences, lectures and training classes for linguistic surveys.

The Research Centre for Classical Chinese Poetics was established to promote and facilitate research on classical Chinese poetry and poetics. It aims to explore new issues, methods and areas of study, and foster communication and cooperation among Eastern and Western scholars.