This text considers contemporary China’s language ideology and how it supports China as a rising global power player. It examines the materialization of this ideology as China’s language order unfolds
Inequalities in China’s multi-ethnic society and related issues of political stability have become more acute as economic globalization has intensified competition for scarce resources, and the dynami
Language matters in China. It is about power, identity, opportunities, and, above all, passion and nationalism. During the past five decades China’s language engineering projects transformed its lingu
This volume is the first to comprehensively examine Chinese’s affirmative action policies in the critical area of minority education, the most important conduit to employment and economic succe
Minglang Zhou's highly erudite and well-researched volume on the policies concerning writing reforms for China’s minorities since 1949 provides an original and well-reasoned summary of a complex proce
