Newspapers in written Chinese minority languages

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Language issues in China’s urbanization process in the context of globalization v
3. Contents xi
4. Part I: Language Work
5. 1. An update on the use and management of standard spoken and written Chinese 3
6. 2. Current situation of the management of spoken and written languages 15
7. 3. Present situation of the work concerning ethnic languages 21
8. 4. Sixty years’ work with spoken and written languages 33
9. Part II: Special Research
10. 5. The global spread of the Chinese language 43
11. 6. Development of the language information industry in China 61
12. 7. The use of sign language and related issues 73
13. 8. The language of Chinese films and TV series 87
14. 9. Folk cant and folk life 99
15. 10. The development of an international language environment in Beijing 107
16. 11. The Beijing migrant children’s language and identity 115
17. 12. Language barrier and assistance during the earthquake relief operations in Yushu, Qinghai Province 123
18. 13. A survey of the Russian language use in Inner Mongolia’s Ergun City 137
19. 14. Compilation of dictionaries of the Chinese language 145
20. 15. Chinglish at the crossroads 157
21. 16. The academic community on language life 171
22. Part III: Language Focuses
23. 17. Chinese characters: Traditional versus simplified debate 185
24. 18. Debate on The General Table of Standard Chinese Characters 195
25. 19. A heated discussion on the “crisis in writing Chinese characters” 201
26. 20. Reflections on the incident of the “Preservation of Cantonese” in Guangzhou 211
27. 21. The phenomenon of the Martian language 225
28. 22. Chinese Internet buzzwords and catchphrases of 2009 235
29. 23. Comparisons of Chinese characters, words and phrases used in the media (2005–2009) 247
30. 24. Chinese neologisms of the year (2009–2010) 265
31. 25. A survey of annual catchwords in the media (2009–2010) 279
32. 26. Changes in biliteracy and trilingualism in the Hong Kong education sector 289
33. 27. Survey of “Yuanxingdi” as street name in Macau 307
34. 28. Language situation in Taiwan (2009–2010) 315
35. 29 Special. Social responses spurred on by the Report on the Language Situation in China 335
36. Appendix
37. Newspapers in written Chinese minority languages 353
38. A record of major Chinese language events (2009) 361
39. A record of major Chinese language events (2010) 375
40. Contents (Chinese version 2009) 393
41. Contents (Chinese version 2011) 395
42. Postscript 399
43. Editorial Teams of the English Edition 401
44. Index 403