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- Author: Minglang Zhou
- Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
- Year: 2003
- Pages: 480
- ISBN-10: 3110178966
- ISBN-13: 9783110178968
- Format: 15.6 x 23.4 x 2.7 cm, hardcover
- Language: English
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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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- Author: Minglang Zhou
- Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
- Year: 2003
- Pages: 480
- ISBN-10: 3110178966
- ISBN-13: 9783110178968
- Format: 15.6 x 23.4 x 2.7 cm, hardcover
- Language: English English
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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