Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora

by Jing Tsu

What happens when language wars are not about hurling insults or quibbling over meanings, but are waged in the physical sounds and shapes of language itself?

Native and foreign speakers, mother tongues and national languages, have jostled for distinction throughout the modern period. The fight for global dominance between the English and Chinese languages opens into historical battles over the control of the medium through standardization,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674055403
• ISBN13: 9780674055407
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.2"