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Language Matters in China: An Anthropological Postscript

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“The great cultural barrier imposed by a separate language is perhaps the most effective guarantee that a social world, easily accessible to insiders, will remain opaque to outsiders, a unique language represents a formidable obstacle to state knowledge, let alone colonization, control, manipulation, instruction or propaganda” (Scott, 1998, p. 72)

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Hill, A.M. (2004). Language Matters in China: An Anthropological Postscript. In: Zhou, M., Sun, H. (eds) Language Policy in the People’s Republic of China. Language Policy, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-8039-5_19

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