Language Education in China Hongyu Tian

Language Education in China Hongyu TianLanguage Education in China Policy and Experience from 1949 is unprecedented as a comprehensive study of the multilingual circumstances in China. It tracks policy changes in the learning of Chinese, foreign languages and minority ethnic languages in China since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. On the basis of survey and interview data, the experiences of different age cohorts of learners are presented as "windows" to the

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Hong Kong and the Chinese diasporas

Orlov provides a comprehensive analysis of these traditions in their full historical and interpretive complexity

Idiomatic expressions lend color

‘Politics

Mutinous siblings

This book gives poets the tools to experiment with language

a New England brother- and sister-in-law who struck up an affair that ended in suicide and infamy

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with particular attention to the impact of new concepts of gender in public life

especially those interested in Romantic women’s writing

the nature and perception of teachers' work