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  • China Learns from the Soviet Union, 1949–Present

    by Tina Mai Chen, Izabella Goikhman, Guiha Guan, Donghui He, Xiaojia Hou, You Ji, Hanbing Kong, Lorenz Luthi, Elizabeth McGuire, Gregory Rohlf, Laurence Schneider, Douglas Stiffler, Péter Vámos, Miin-ling Yu, Jian Zang, Shengfa Zhang, Minglang Zhou, Thomas P. Bernstein, Gilbert Rozman ...
    Series series The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
    It is well known that the Soviet Union strongly influenced China in the early 1950s, since China committed itself both to the Sino-Soviet alliance and to the Soviet model of building socialism. What is less well known is that Chinese proved receptive not only to the Soviet economic model but also to the emulation of the Soviet Union in realms such as those of ideology, education, science, and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Language Ideology and Order in Rising China

    by Minglang Zhou ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    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 on two front, promoting Putonghua domestically and globally, alongside its economic growth and military expansion. Within the conceptual framework of language ideology and language order and using ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Language Policy in the People’s Republic of China

    Theory and Practice Since 1949

    Edited by Minglang Zhou, Hongkai Sun ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    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 linguistic landscape, affecting over one billion people’s lives, including both the majority and minority populations. The Han majority have been juggling between their home vernaculars and the official ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • The Naked Communist

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  • Language and Identity

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    by John Edwards ...
    Series series Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
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  • Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens

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    Translated by Ottilie Mulzet ...
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  • Words at Work and Play

    Three Decades in Family and Community Life

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  • Conceptions in the Code

    How Metaphors Explain Legal Challenges in Digital Times

    by Stefan Larsson ...
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  • Shadow Cold War

    The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World

    by Jeremy Friedman ...
    Series series New Cold War History
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