Chinese
By Jerry Norman; S. R. Anderson (Editor); J. Bresnan (Editor)
(Cambridge University Press, Paperback, 9780521296533, 304pp.)
Publication Date: January 1988
Categories: Asian - General, General, Chinese
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Description
This general introduction to the study of the Chinese language traces its history from its beginnings in the second millennium BC to present day and provides a clear picture of the contemporary language and its sociolinguistic status.











