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Empires of the mind : I. A. Richards and Basic English in China, 1929-1979
- Title
- Empires of the mind : I. A. Richards and Basic English in China, 1929-1979 / Rodney Koeneke.
- Author
- Koeneke, Rodney
- Publication
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2004.
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- Description
- 256 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Richards, I. A. (Ivor Armstrong), 1893- > Knowledge > Language and languages
- Richards, I. A. (Ivor Armstrong), 1893- > Knowledge > China
- Richards, I. A. (Ivor Armstrong), 1893- > Travel > China
- Richards, I. A. (Ivor Armstrong), 1893- > Influence
- English language > Study and teaching > Chinese speakers
- English philology > Study and teaching (Higher) > China
- British > China > History > 20th century
- Educators > Great Britain > Biography
- Critics > Great Britain > Biography
- Language and culture > China
- Communication, International
- English language > China
- China > Languages
- Basic English
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-251) and index.
- Contents
- The Cambridge background -- A moment in paradise : the first year in China, 1929-1930 -- Both sides of the looking glass : Mencius, Basic English and the Rockefeller Foundation, 1931-1935 -- The Orthological Institute of China, 1936 -- War and the flight to Kunming, 1937-1945 -- Empires of the future : Communist China and the Cold War, 1950-1951.
- Call Number
- JFE 04-4154
- ISBN
- 0804748225 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2003011521
- OCLC
- 52341425
- Author
- Koeneke, Rodney.
- Title
- Empires of the mind : I. A. Richards and Basic English in China, 1929-1979 / Rodney Koeneke.
- Imprint
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2004.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-251) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 04-4154