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The studies of language strategy emerged as a new area of research in China in the twenty-first century. At the beginning, the studies were generally driven by the problem-solving needs of the country that was going through a fast process of modernization. Under such conditions, the application of the established theories in language policy and planning (LPP) was frequently implicit and unreflective while the pragmatic approach integrating knowledge from various sources seemed to be effective. The present chapter summarizes the studies of language strategies with their social effects in the theoretic perspective of LPP. The studies are seen to be outgrowth of the twentieth-century scholarship in LPP but seem to have elevated to a new level of multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary development. The major issues the studies attempt to deal with are seen to be both theoretically important and broadly relevant beyond the Chinese situation. The economic approach by some of the language strategy studies is evaluated of their innovativeness in theoretic development and practical application.

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Fang, X., Ge, Y. (2022). Language Strategies in China. In: Ye, Z. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Chinese Language Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0924-4_23

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