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China and Chinese, or Chingland and Chinglish?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2003

Niu Qiang  and
Martin Wolff
Niu Qiang
Affiliation:
Associate Professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Tong ji University, Shanghai, China. donna_niu@yahoo.com
Martin Wolff
Affiliation:
Foreign Expert at the School of Foreign Languages, the Shanghai Institute of International Exchange, as part of the Sino-Canadian Joint Program. teachbesl@yahoo.co.uk
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Extract

A discussion of the sociolinguistic risks faced by the People's Republic of China in rapidly opening up to Western influences in both economic and linguistic terms. The writers argue against what they consider a currently over-enthusiastic adoption of English in which ‘a Westernised China … might more aptly, if ruefully, be referred to as “Chingland”.’

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English Today , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , April 2003 , pp. 9 - 11
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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