{"product_id":"multilingualism-in-china","title":"Multilingualism in China","description":"\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","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57334540763480,"sku":"9783110178968","price":169.26,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783110178968.jpg?v=1779276685","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/multilingualism-in-china","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}