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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of tables
  • Abbreviations and names of minorities in China
  • Map 1 Distribution of minority nationalities and languages in China
  • Map 2 China: Autonomous regions and prefectures
  • Chapter 1 Minorities and minority languages in China
  • 1.1. Historical developments of the Han and non-Han peoples
  • 1.2. Official classification of the non-Han peoples
  • 1.3. Distribution of minority communities
  • 1.4. The classification and distribution of minority languages
  • 1.5. Current status of minority languages
  • 1.6. The organization of this bookChapter 2 The politics of minority language policy, 1949â€?2002
  • 2.1. Development of the CCP minorities policy before 1949
  • 2.2. Theoretical foundation of the CCP minorities policy and later changes
  • 2.3. The first pluralistic stage: 1949â€?1957
  • 2.4. The Chinese monopolistic stage: 1958â€?1977
  • 2.5. The second pluralistic stage: 1978â€?2002
  • Chapter 3 The politics of the status of writing systems: Official, experimental, or unofficial
  • 3.1. Status of writing systems: The first pluralistic stage (1949â€?1957)
  • 3.2. Status of writing systems: The Chinese monopolistic stage (1958â€?1977)3.3. Status of writing systems: The second pluralistic stage (1978â€?2002)
  • 3.4. Issues in Chinaâ€?s minority language policy
  • Chapter 4 Choices of scripts and theories of writing systems: East vs. West
  • 4.1. Western linguistics and the initial writing reforms for minority languages in the PRC
  • 4.2. Modeling after the Soviet Union
  • 4.3. Roman, IPA, and Cyrillic scripts: Conflicts and compromises
  • Chapter 5 The politics of vernacular writing systems
  • 5.1. The Soviet model and proliferation of vernacular writing systems5.2. Vernacular writing systems: Consolidation and withdrawal
  • 5.3. Vernacular writing systems: Consolidation and proliferation
  • 5.4. Relationship between standard and vernacular writing systems
  • Chapter 6 The politics of traditional and reformed writing systems
  • 6.1. Between changing policies and written traditions: The Siniform script vs. the Roman alphabet
  • 6.2. Between domestic and international politics: Reform of the Mongolian writing system
  • 6.3. Between socialism and Islam: Reforms of the Uygur and Kazak writing systems6.4. Between the state and Christian traditions: Reforms of missionary writing systems
  • 6.5. Between the state and Buddhist traditions: Reforms of writing systems in Dai communities
  • 6.6. Factors in the successes and failures of writing reforms
  • Chapter 7 Modernization: The politics and sociolinguistics of Chinese loanwords and minority language orthography
  • 7.1. The early years of lexical modernization (1949â€?1955)
  • 7.2. Central planning of lexical modernization before Pinyin