Multilingualism - the use of two or more languages within a polity - is often seen by governments as an impediment, if not a threat, to nation-building and national identity.…
Lifei Wang, School of Translation and Interpreting, Beijing Language and Culture University Jiangwei Sun, School of Translation and Interpreting, Beijing Language and Culture University Jie Ren, School of Translation and…
Li Yuming Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Language Resources and Research Center for Standardized Use of Chinese Language, Beijing Language and Culture University *** Editor’s note: This is a translated…
Call for papers for a special issue of Multilingua devoted to “Linguistic diversity and public health: sociolinguistic perspectives on COVID-19” edited by Ingrid Piller, Jie Zhang, and Jia Li. The…
Before celebrating China’s Spring Festival, my husband and I were talking about new sources of local economic growth thanks to President Xi Jinping’s visit to Tengchong right after his first…
Jin Gang performing a fiddle story about the heroism of health workers Nothing seems further from the fight against COVID-19 than traditional folklore. However, an ancient Mongolian art form, the…
Disinfectant activities I am writing this from my village in the mountainous Tibetan regions of western Sichuan Province, in China. We have been on lockdown for almost a month, and…