Language diversity in the Sinophone world historical trajectories, language planning, and multilingual practices

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : language diversity in the Sinophone world / Henning Klöter and Mårten Söderblom Saarela -- What was standard Chinese in the nineteenth Century? : divergent views in the times of transition / Richard VanNess Simmons -- Manchu, Mandarin, and the politicization of spoken language in Qing China / Mårten Söderblom Saarela -- Romanizing southern Mǐn : missionaries and the promotion of written Chinese vernaculars / Don Snow -- Interactions across Englishes in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Singapore / Christiane Meirkord -- One legacy, two legislations : language policies on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait / Henning Klöter -- Language policy and practice in Taiwan in the early twenty-first century / Su-Chio Chen -- A tale of two special administrative regions : the state of multilingualism in Hong Kong and Macao / David C.S. …”