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Daniel Kane, Higher Education, The Australian, January 19, 2000, Page 30
... a great step foward for Chinese language studies and linguisics ... should be prescribed reading for all advanced students. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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"...Ping Chen's account of the history of standard Chinese is interesting and thought-provoking...a rich, valuable, and important addition to the basic literature in the field of Chinese linguistics. The book will be of great interest both to students who seek an introduction to the nature of Modern Chinese in its sociolinguistic aspects and to specialists who wish to delve further into any of those aspects." Anthropological Linguistics

"Modern Chinese whets our appetite for more and better analysis of language change. Until recently, the study of Chinese sociolinguistics has beed neglected because of politics. Chen's unprecedented attention to sociolinguistics opens up insights on language and social relationships that are just now beginning to be explored." Language in Society

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Chinese is the native language of approximately a billion people distributed over vast geographical areas of the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
language planning institutions, latinxua sin wenz, national pronunciation, phonographic writing system, lexical norms, distinct writing systems, phonetic determinatives, phonographic system, dialectal base, semantic determinatives, script reform, other dialect areas, homophonous morphemes, standard writing system, traditional writing system, dialect writing, simplified characters, standard written language, literary pronunciation, phonetic scheme, base dialect, logographic writing system, grammatical norms, dental sibilants, simplified script Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Northern Mandarin, Southern Min, Hong Kong, Ministry of Education, Second Scheme, National Language Movement, Qian Xuantong, Medieval Chinese, Modern Spoken Chinese, New Culture Movement, National Conference, People's Republic of China, Eastern Han, State Language Commission, Chao Yuen Ren, Opium War, Southern Song, Wang Zhao, Chen Duxiu, Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong, Soviet Union, Taiwan Mandarin, Yellow River, Zhou Youguang New!
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