Preface -- Foreword by Bernard Spolsky -- Table of contents -- Chapter 1. Three major linguistic issues of mankind in contemporary societies -- Chapter 2. On mother tongue -- Chapter 3. On planning of language function -- Chapter 4. Some considerations on enhancing the national language capability -- Chapter 5. Language is also a "hard power" -- Chapter 6. On levels of language life -- Chapter 7. On field language planning -- Chapter 8. Characteristics of language life in contemporary China -- Chapter 9. On foreign language planning in China -- Chapter 10. The status of authoritative dialect in language standardization -- Chapter 11. A supplement to The Status of Authoritative Dialects in Language Standardization -- Chapter 12. Building up bilingual and bi-dialectical competence -- Chapter 13. On the establishment of Chinese Language Resource Audio Database -- Chapter 14. Some thoughts on the standardization of lexical items -- Chapter 15. On terminology -- Chapter 16. Reflection on the modernization of lexicography in China -- Chapter 17. On Zhongguo Yuyan Shenghuo Lüpishu (Green Paper on the Language Situation in China) -- Chapter 18. Issues of the Chinese language in the information age -- Chapter 19. Language tasks in the information age -- Chapter 20. The work of language standardization in the information age -- Chapter 21. Constructing the grand platform of China Character Set -- Chapter 22. On annotation of language knowledge in the corpus -- Chapter 23. The needs for language learning and teaching Chinese as foreign language -- Chapter 24. The significance of a study on the history of the international dissemination of Chinese -- Chapter 25. Contemporary China: the core of international education of the Chinese language -- Chapter 26. The intension and extension of qieyinzi. and Chapter 27. The proposition of universal education in the Qieyinzi Movement -- Chapter 28. Late Qing script reformers' view of dialects -- Chapter 29. Late Qing script reformers' views on language unification -- Chapter 30. Centenary of the promulgation of the state resolution Proposal for Establishing a Common National Language -- Index.
Summary
This series brings together original studies and translated work on language, culture, and society in China and across the Chinese diasporas worldwide. Topics include language policy and planning, language standardization and language engineering, language contact and multilingualism, language in education, language and the media, language and the law, language and economy, language and history, and Chinese as a global language.
