The Faculty of Arts offered a Chinese course as an elective course in 1973. In 1977, the course was developed into a minor course, and eventually became a major course in a B.A. program in 1981^[1] under the supervision of the Chinese Section.

In 1997, coupled with the assistance from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking Univeristy, the faculty offered a master’s degree program in Chinese Language and Literature, considered the country’s first M.A. program in Chinese Language. The Chinese Section was supported by the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking Univeristy, with their instructors to assist in teaching. Futhermore, the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, provided our students with consultant teachers to help them with their dissertation throughout the period of research and data collection at Peking University. Later, in 2004, the faculty offered another M.A. program in Chinese as a Foreign Language so as to meet the country’s needs for lecturers in response to an increase of Chinese studying. (The program is no longer available.)

As universities in Thailand were either increasingly offering M.A. programs in Chinese Language or in the process of planning on such programs, the Faculty of Arts started offering a Ph.D. program in Chinese Language in 2009, realising that Ph.D. instructors were required for teaching Chinese in certain institutes. The program is the first Chinese Ph.D. program in Thailand established in order to produce instructors with specialised Chinese skills and in-depth knowledge in Chinese literature and culture. With such proficiency, they are able to contribute to an innovative body of knowledge which fits into the way Chinese skills and literature are taught in Thailand. This not only helps reduce the cost of sending instructors to pursue a doctoral degree abroad, but also makes a greater stride in teaching Chinese to achieve a world-class standard.