Linguistic engineering : language and politics in Mao's china

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Title:	Linguistic engineering : language and politics in Mao's china; Language and politics in Mao's china
Author:	Ji, Fengyuan, 1958
Date:	c2004
Publisher:	Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press
Description:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-342) and index. Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Prelude -- 1. Linguistic Engineering: Theoretical Considerations -- 2. Linguistic Engineering before the Cultural Revolution -- II. Mass Mobilization, Language and Interpretation 1966-68 -- 3. Mao's Revolutionary Strategy 1966-68 -- 4. Revolutionary Conformity, Public Criticism and Formulae -- 5. Dichotomies, Demons and Violence -- 6. Creating Referents and Controlling the Word -- 7. Controlling Culture: Literature and Dramatic Art -- 8. Educating Revolutionaries: English -- Language Teaching -- IV. Assessment -- 9. China's Great Experiment: Intensity, Success, and Failure -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Table of contents also available via World Wide Web viii, 350 p. 24 cm
Identifier:	http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip043/2003009984.html ISBN:0824825365 (alk. paper)
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10125/23067
Keywords:	Language and languages -- Political aspects, Linguistic and communism, China