{"product_id":"9783110178968","title":"Multilingualism in China: The Politics of Writing Reforms for Minority Languages 1949-2002","description":"  \u003cmeta name=\"generator\" content=\"microsoft dhtml editing control\"\u003e \u003ctitle\u003e\u003c\/title\u003e   \u003cbr\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.  ","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052445057264,"sku":"9783110178968","price":210.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783110178968_p0.jpg?v=1763719868","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783110178968","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}