In primary stage of Japanese study, demonstrative pronouns often appear in Noun-predicate sentences, as is the way in Kore wa hon desu, which can be translated as Zhe shi shu in Chinese. Therefore, it is generally believed that ko/so(a) in Japanese equal to zhe/na in Chinese. The author, based on Chinese students' learning experience of Japanese, conducts a contrastive study of demonstrative pronouns in Chinese and Japanese texts so as to explore the similarities and differences between demonstrative pronouns in Chinese and Japanese discourses.
