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Promoting Chinese Across Borders

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This chapter examines how rising China challenges the global language order by launching an initiative to promote Chinese globally through Confucius Institutes and Classrooms . To account for China’s international language planning , this chapter adopts a community second language acquisition model that conceives a surface level of institutional development and a deep level of identity construction. On the deep level , China is ideologically challenged, particularly in the West, because of its failed mediation among the real, official , and perceived Chinas in classrooms, while it faces strategic challenges from its guarded neighbors and Muslim states. On the surface level , China has won collaborations worldwide, wherever money and/or coercion works, and instigated campus politics and engaged double agents for the best interest of China’s rise and its vision of “One World .”

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Zhou, M. (2019). Promoting Chinese Across Borders. In: Language Ideology and Order in Rising China. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3483-2_7

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