{"product_id":"multilingualism-in-china-the-politics-of-writing-reforms-for-minority-languages-1949-2002-9783110178968","title":"Multilingualism in China: The Politics of Writing Reforms for Minority Languages 1949-2002","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Minglang Zhou\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - Sociolinguistics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMinglang Zhou's highly erudite and well-researched volume on the policies concerning writing reforms for China's minorities since 1949 provides an original and well-reasoned summary of a complex process. It documents how different script reforms meet dramatically different fates according to local preferences, history, cross-border ties, and the vitality of previously-used scripts. It convincingly shows that no single variable is decisive in the success of a script, and that language planners' fixation with technical details is doomed to failure, without careful coordination of extra-code factors. It also documents the little-known Sino-Soviet cooperation in the area of writing reforms. In a style accessible to both undergraduate and graduate students, Zhou's book is of interest to language planners, sinologists, applied linguists, writing theorists, and ethnologists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"de Gruyter Mouton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45414723747991,"sku":"9783110178968","price":17358.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783110178968.webp?v=1767445018","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/multilingualism-in-china-the-politics-of-writing-reforms-for-minority-languages-1949-2002-9783110178968","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}