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Putonghua Education and Language Policy in Postcolonial Hong Kong

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Language Policy in the People’s Republic of China

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  1. The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, PRC

    Bennan Zhang & Robin R. Yang

  2. The Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, PRC

    Bennan Zhang & Robin R. Yang

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  1. Dickinson College, USA

    Minglang Zhou

  2. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China

    Hongkai Sun

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Zhang, B., Yang, R.R. (2004). Putonghua Education and Language Policy in Postcolonial Hong Kong. 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_8

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