Multilingualism in China : : The Politics of Writing Reforms for Minority Languages 1949-2002 / / Minglang Zhou.
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 process. It documents how different script reforms meet dramatically different fates according...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ,
89 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (458 p.) :; 2 Ktn. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of tables
- Abbreviations and names of minorities in China
- Map 1. Distribution of Minority Nationalities and Languages in China
- Map 2 China: Autonomous regions and prefectures
- Chapter 1. Minorities and minority languages in China
- Chapter 2. The politics of minority language policy, 1949–2002
- Chapter 3. The politics of the status of writing systems: Official, experimental, or unofficial
- Chapter 4. Choices of scripts and theories of writing systems: East vs. West
- Chapter 5. The politics of vernacular writing systems
- Chapter 6. The politics of traditional and reformed writing systems
- Chapter 7. Modernization: The politics and sociolinguistics of Chinese loanwords and minority language orthography
- Chapter 8. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Subject index
- Index of (officially recognized) minority nationalities and minority languages in China
- Index of names of influential persons