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Bob Adamson. China's English: A History of English in Chinese Education.(Book review)

Bob Adamson. China's English: A History of English in Chinese Education. Hong Kong University Press, 2004. v, 241 pp. Hardcover $39.50, ISBN 962-209-663-8.

This volume recounts the varying fortunes of English teaching (and teachers) in China from the 1950s to the 1990s. Bob Adamson explains its origins in an anecdote of how, while teaching in Shanxi in 1983, he met an adult student who, as a young Red Guard, had helped hurl his English teacher to his death from a dormitory window (p. 1). Not all of Adamson's examples of English teaching's vicissitudes under the communists are so grisly, but he illustrates convincingly how dicey an issue it has been, and remains. Well ...

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