Multilingualism in China

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 scri...

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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. 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.

Intro
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of tables
Abbreviations and names of minorities in China
Map 1 Distribution of minority nationalities and languages in China
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Intro
Preface
Acknowledgements
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
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