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Article: The Politics of Language in Chinese Education, 1895-1919
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- The China Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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The Politics of Language in Chinese Education, 1895-1919, by Elisabeth Kaske. Leiden: Brill, 2008. xx + 537 pp. euro139.00/US$195.00 (hardcover).
Vernacular languages have been fundamental to modern nationalism, but they have emerged in distinct ways in different national contexts. In The Politics of Language Elisabeth Kaske seeks to contribute to a comparative discussion of the role of language in modern nationalism by analyzing the linguistic strategies of competing groups of intellectuals in late Qing and early Republican China. She sees those intellectuals confronting the globally widespread phenomenon of diglossia by formulating diverse approaches to language reform and language ...