Modern Chinese history and sociolinguistics - Chen, Ping (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-221) and index
Modern Spoken Chinese -- - Establishment and promotion of Modern Spoken Chinese -- - Development of Standard Spoken Chinese before the late nineteenth century -- - Establishment and promotion of Modern Standard Chinese from the late nineteenth century until 1949 -- - Promotion of putonghua after 1949 -- - Promotion of Modern Standard Chinese in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore -- - Norms and variations of Modern Standard Chinese -- - Phonology of Modern Standard Chinese -- - Difference between Modern Standard Chinese and the Beijing dialect -- - Adulterated putonghua -- - Norms of Modern Standard Chinese outside mainland China -- - The standard and dialects -- - Dialects in contact -- - Socio-functional differentiation of Modern Standard Chinese and dialects -- - Language policy towards dialects -- - Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore -- - Modern Written Chinese -- - Development and promotion of Modern Written Chinese -- - Old Written Chinese -- - Emergence of early Modern Written Chinese -- - Replacement of wenyan by baihua as Standard Written Chinese -- - Sources of and avenues of influence upon Modern Written Chinese -- - Uses of wenyan and baihua since the 1940s -- - Establishment of Modern Written Chinese and status planning -- - Norms and variations of Modern Written Chinese -- - Newly developed grammatical norms in Modern Written Chinese -- - Regional variations in the grammatical norms of Modern Written Chinese -- - Newly developed lexical norms in Modern Written Chinese -- - Regional variations in the lexical norms of Modern Written Chinese
The Chinese language, spoken by over one billion people, has undergone drastic changes over the past century. This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the development of Chinese from the late 19th century onwards