The paper proposes that the standard of “Chinese characteristic, Chinese style and Chinese manner” should be used to develop modern Chinese linguistics and modern studies of Chinese. It is necessary to develop a new understanding and definition of Chinese based on criticizing the western theory of Evolution Typology of Language. Chinese is not an “isolating language”, but a “multilayered language”, with the important characteristics of it. In terms of methodology, Chinese, as a “multilayered language”, should be studied with its own research methods and means, among which the theory of Centrism and theory of Extension are effective methods and means based on hierarchical analysis.

Chinese; language type; multilayered type; theory of Centrism; theory of Extension