In March 2003, the School of Liberal Arts of Beijing Normal University was established, building a new development platform based on the solid foundation of the original disciplines. The School of Liberal Arts now has the Institute of Chinese Language and Philology (including seven research directions: Chinese philology, exegesis, ancient Chinese grammar, phonology, modern Chinese grammar and rhetoric, modern Chinese writing and vocabulary, and modern Chinese phonetic dialects), Literary and Art Research Institute (including four research directions: ancient Chinese literary theory, Western literary theory, basic literary theory, popular culture and literary aesthetics), Institute of Ancient Chinese Literature (including pre-Qin and Han literature, Tang and Song literature, Yuan, Ming and Qing literature, and ancient literary books Collection and research, history of ancient Chinese literary criticism and other five research directions), Institute of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature (including four research directions: modern literature, contemporary literature, children's literature, drama, film and television literature, etc.), Institute of Comparative Literature and World Literature (including three research directions: Comparative Literature Theory, European and American Literature, and Oriental Literature), Institute of Folklore and Cultural Anthropology (including three research directions: Folklore, Folklore, and Cultural Anthropology), Folklore and Social Development Research Institute (including five research directions such as historical folklore, modern folklore, digital folklore, gender studies, and technical folklore), Institute of Journalism and Communication (including three research directions including editing and publishing, communication studies, and journalism) , Institute of Chinese Education (including primary and secondary school Chinese education, university Chinese education and other two research directions), Institute of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (including phonetics and phonology, semantics, grammar, historical linguistics, applied language 10 teaching and research institutions including five research directions). It has five non-entity research centers including the Gender and Development Research Center, the Chinese Language and Overseas Chinese Education Research Center, the Media Planning and Cultural Communication Research Center, the Pan-Media Culture Research Center, and the Chinese Children’s Literature Research Center; it also has Chinese teaching There are 3 laboratories including scientific research multimedia integration studio, Chinese character research laboratory, and digital folklore laboratory.