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Modern Chinese: History and Sociolinguistics

By Ping Chen

Book information

Year
1999
ISBN
0521645727, 9780521645720, 0521641977, 9780521641975, 9780511040337
LCC
PL1083 .C525 1999
Open Library ID
OL376511M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1013 kB (1037298 bytes)
Pages
244\245
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The Chinese language, spoken by over one billion people, has undergone drastic changes over the past century. This book presents a comprehensive, up-to-date account of the development of Modern Chinese from the late nineteenth century to the 1990s. It describes and analyzes in detail, from historical and sociolinguistic perspectives, the establishment and promotion of Modern Spoken Chinese and Modern Written Chinese, and the reform of the Chinese script, and reveals the interaction of linguistic, historical and social factors in the recent development of the language.

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