List of maps and figures List of tables Foreword Preface Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Multilingualism in China: diversity, hierarchy and power 3. Maintaining Mongolian language in Inner Mongolia 4. Becoming bilingual and trilingual in Xinjiang 5. The debate on Tibetan education in Qinghai 6. Harnessing multilingualism: linguistic vitality in Yunnan 7. Rethinking multilingualism: the new literacy in Guangxi 8. Challenges and barriers for multilingualism and multilingual education Bibliography Index
Explores the complex topic of multilingual education in the People's Republic of China.
Linda Tsung is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney, Australia.
Tsung’s book is an important resource, a ground-breaking study that
fills a gap in our understanding of multilingualism, language
policy, social change and education in China. The country now
requires improved multilingual education in order to create a
harmonious society, and this book can be a catalyst for change.
*Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development*
In addition to its data-rich survey of Mongolian, Uighur, Tibetan
and other minority language instruction across China, Linda Tsung’s
brilliant new study casts new light on theoretical and practical
issues surrounding multilingualism as a global phenomenon and its
impact on social, cultural, social and political life in
contemporary China.
*Bonnie S. Mcdougall, Visiting Professor in the Department of
Chinese Studies, University of Sydney, Australia*
Linda Tsung's book is a ground-breaking study of the complex issue
of multilingualism in contemporary China. Backed by primary sources
and years of extensive fieldwork in vast Chinese ethnic minority
regions, the author reveals the challenges that all stakeholders
must face in negotiating the tension among the diverse forces of
globalization, nationalization, language maintenance, social
development, among others. It is as theoretically fascinating for
linguists as practically valuable for policy makers.
*Hongyin Tao, Professor of Chinese Language and Linguistics,
University of California, Los Angeles and (2014) President of the
Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA*
Linda Tsung does what few linguists do well: she takes us into a
mysterious world and shows us what the sociolinguistic reality is
like there. This is the first book that has empirically and
systematically examined the multilingual norms and multilingual
education in China, a nation now standing at the crossroads with
confusion, and hesitation.
*Hui Li, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, The University
of Hong Kong*
This book is both an empirically rich account and theoretically
significant critique of China’s policies and practices of
multilingualism and multilingual education Skilfully navigating
amongst several different ethnic minority languages and communities
in China, Linda Tsung directs us to the opportunities and
challenges of multilingualism. The book is of relevance to a wide
range of people interested in language policy, education, and
social change in China.
*Li Wei, Professor of Applied Linguistics, Birkbeck College,
University of London, UK*
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