Citation: Pingping Zhao, Ping Cai, Kai Hu, Yaxian Zhu, Peng Cheng, Gongzhen Cheng. A Comparative Study of General and Inorganic Chemistry Textbooks at Home and from Abroad[J]. University Chemistry, ;2023, 38(6): 36-40. doi: 10.3866/PKU.DXHX202302051 shu

A Comparative Study of General and Inorganic Chemistry Textbooks at Home and from Abroad

Pingping Zhao ¹ ,
Ping Cai ² ,
Kai Hu ² ,
Yaxian Zhu ³ ,
Peng Cheng ⁴ ,
Gongzhen Cheng ^2,,

1.
Research Center for Graphic Communication, Printing and Packaging, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China;
2.
College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China;
3.
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian Province, China;
4.
College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China

Corresponding author: Gongzhen Cheng, gzcheng@whu.edu.cn
Received Date: 21 February 2023
Revised Date: 24 April 2023

The domestic inorganic chemistry textbooks and the corresponding popular international textbooks are compared in contents. It is found that the inorganic chemistry courses in China include the contents of both the international chemical principles or general chemistry courses and the descriptive inorganic chemistry. Domestic inorganic chemistry textbooks cover a wider range of topics and are concise in text description, but are not easy for self-studying. In international textbooks, the coverage of chemical principle textbooks is usually not wide enough, but the contents are well-illustrated and the readers are progressively lead to the frontier of the subjects, together with the proper use of theory and its applications; some textbooks have wide coverage and the forefront of current subjects are introduced. Those are worthy of mentioning for our reference in the future construction of teaching materials.
- Inorganic chemistry,
- Textbook comparison,
- Chemical principles
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