Multilingualism in China: The Politics of Writing Reforms for Minority Languages 1949-2002

Minglang Zhou

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Multilingualism in China

The Politics of Writing Reforms for Minority Languages 1949-2002

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Published/Copyright: 2003

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Volume 89 | Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]

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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 to local preferences, history, cross-border ties, and the vitality of previously-used scripts. It convincingly shows that no single variable is decisive in the success of a script, and that language planners' fixation with technical details is doomed to failure, without careful coordination of extra-code factors. It also documents the little-known Sino-Soviet cooperation in the area of writing reforms. In a style accessible to both undergraduate and graduate students, Zhou's book is of interest to language planners, sinologists, applied linguists, writing theorists, and ethnologists.

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Minglang Zhou is Associate Professor at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, USA.

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Preface
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Acknowledgements
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Contents
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List of tables
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Abbreviations and names of minorities in China
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Map 1. Distribution of Minority Nationalities and Languages in China
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Map 2 China: Autonomous regions and prefectures
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Chapter 1. Minorities and minority languages in China
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Chapter 2. The politics of minority language policy, 1949–2002
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Chapter 3. The politics of the status of writing systems: Official, experimental, or unofficial
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Chapter 4. Choices of scripts and theories of writing systems: East vs. West
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Chapter 5. The politics of vernacular writing systems
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Chapter 6. The politics of traditional and reformed writing systems
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Chapter 7. Modernization: The politics and sociolinguistics of Chinese loanwords and minority language orthography
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Chapter 8. Conclusion
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Notes
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References
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Subject index
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Index of (officially recognized) minority nationalities and minority languages in China
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Index of names of influential persons
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Sprachsoziologie; Dialektologie; Sprachkontakt; Rechtschreibung

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Multilingualism in China

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

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

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