Sino-Platonic Papers, 145 (August 2004)

Reviews XI

Contents

• A Brief Review Essay on the Rise of English as a Mandatory Second (Quasi-Official) Language in East Asia, Especially China: or, The Impending Implosion of the Sinographic Writing System
  • Kingsley Bolton. Chinese Englishes: A Sociolinguistic History.
  • Bob Adamson. China's English: A History of English in Chinese Education.
  • Braj B. Kachru. Asian Englishes Beyond the Canon.
  • YAN Zhiqiang, ed. Shijie Yingyu gailun (World Englishes).
  • Peter Trudgill, Jean Hannah. International English: A guide to varieties of Standard English.
  • David Crystal. English: The Global Language.
  • English as a global language. 2nd ed.
  • Tom McArthur. The English Languages.
  • The Oxford Guide to World English.
• Hilary Chappell, ed. Sinitic Grammar: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives.
• W. South Coblin and Joseph A. Levi, Francisco Varo's Grammar of the Mandarin Language (1703): An English Translation of 'Arte de la Lengua Mandarina.'
• Laurent Sagart. The Roots of Old Chinese.
• JI Fengyuan. Linguistic Engineering: Language and Politics in Mao's China.
• Henry Rogers. Writing Systems: A Linguistic Approach.
• Martin Neef, Anneke Neijt, and Richard Sproat, ed. The Relation of Writing to Spoken Language.
• David Christian. Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History.
• Keith R. Benson and Philip F. Rehbock, ed. Oceanographic History: The Pacific and Beyond.
• K. R. Howe. The Quest for Origins: Who First Discovered and Settled the Pacific Islands?
• Timothy Lenz. A New Version of the Gāndhārī Dharmapada and a Collection of Previous-Birth Stories: British Library Kharoṣṭhī Fragments 16 + 25.