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"Multilingual China comprises frontline empirical research into a range of important issues that arise from the presence of 55 official ethnic minority groups, plus China's search to modernize and strengthen the nation's place in the world order. Topics focus on the dynamics of national, ethnic minority and foreign languages in use, policy making and education, inside China and beyond. Micro-studies of language contact and variation are included, as are chapters dealing with multilingual media and linguistic landscapes. The book highlights tensions such as threats to the sustainability of weak languages and dialects, the role and status of foreign languages (especially English) and how Chinese can be presented as a viable regional or international language"--

Michael Byram and Anwei Feng: Introduction -- Sojourns far -- Mari Ayano: Japanese students in England -- Aileen Pearson-Evans: Irish students in Japan -- Christine Burnett: the one less travelled by : the experience of Chinese students in a UK university -- Sojourns near -- Carol Lam: Reciprocal adjustment by host and sojourning groups : mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong -- Vassiliki Papatsiba: Study abroad and experiences of cultural distance and proximity : French Erasmus students -- Short-term sojourns -- Jane Jackson: Ethnographic pedagogy and evaluation in short-term study abroad -- Gertrud Tarp: student perspectives in short-term study programmes abroad: a -- Grounded theory study -- Lasting effects on sojourners -- Susanne Ehrenreich: the assistant experience in retrospect : an interview study -- Examining its educational and professional significance in teachers' biographies -- Geof Alred and Mike Byram: British students in France - ten years on -- Evaluating the impact -- Darla Deardorff: identification and assessment of intercultural competence as a student outcome of internationalization -- References

This book breaks new ground in the study of language standards and standardization through its focus on Asia and in the attention paid to multilingual contexts. The chapters add to our understanding of the ways in which multilingualism is implicated in language standardization, as well as the impact of language standards on multilingualism