Jeffrey Weng
Biographic Data
| ID | 3739897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Weng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Weng |
| SIGNATURE | WENG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0009-0814 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Kingdom of Characters
“I'm looking at those.” We were in Leiden, it was 2019, and the compact woman to my right was gesturing to some 1930s Manchukuo books that I had begun thumbing through. Looking up from the conference bookstand in front of us, I readied a hostile gaze to aim at . . . one of my academic heroes. Elisabeth Kaske, whose Politics of Language in Chinese Education (2008) arguably sparked the current wave of scholarship on language in China, graciously ac…
End of an Era
Scholars have generally taken a "diffusionist" view of the rise of national standard languages-the state pushes for the wider adoption of such languages, and other forces (principally economic modernization) facilitate its diffusion. But such a view is too mechanistic and Eurocentric, and an examination of other, less-familiar cases lends itself to a revised interpretation. Amid Western imperialism and the rise of nationalism in East Asia in the …
Uneasy companions
What Is Mandarin? The Social Project of Language Standardization in Early Republican China
Scholars who study language often see standard or official languages as oppressive, helping the socially advantaged to entrench themselves as elites. This article questions this view by examining the Chinese case, in which early twentieth-century language reformers attempted to remake their society's language situation to further national integration. Classical Chinese, accessible only to a privileged few, was sidelined in favor of Mandarin, a na…
What Is Mandarin? The Social Project of Language Standardization in Early Republican China
Scholars who study language often see standard or official languages as oppressive, helping the socially advantaged to entrench themselves as elites. This article questions this view by examining the Chinese case, in which early twentieth-century language reformers attempted to remake their society's language situation to further national integration. Classical Chinese, accessible only to a privileged few, was sidelined in favor of Mandarin, a na…
What Is Mandarin? The Social Project of Language Standardization in Early Republican China
Scholars who study language often see standard or official languages as oppressive, helping the socially advantaged to entrench themselves as elites. This article questions this view by examining the Chinese case, in which early twentieth-century language reformers attempted to remake their society's language situation to further national integration. Classical Chinese, accessible only to a privileged few, was sidelined in favor of Mandarin, a na…
End of an Era
Scholars have generally taken a "diffusionist" view of the rise of national standard languages-the state pushes for the wider adoption of such languages, and other forces (principally economic modernization) facilitate its diffusion. But such a view is too mechanistic and Eurocentric, and an examination of other, less-familiar cases lends itself to a revised interpretation. Amid Western imperialism and the rise of nationalism in East Asia in the …
Uneasy companions
Kingdom of Characters
“I'm looking at those.” We were in Leiden, it was 2019, and the compact woman to my right was gesturing to some 1930s Manchukuo books that I had begun thumbing through. Looking up from the conference bookstand in front of us, I readied a hostile gaze to aim at . . . one of my academic heroes. Elisabeth Kaske, whose Politics of Language in Chinese Education (2008) arguably sparked the current wave of scholarship on language in China, graciously ac…
Linguistics (4 works) · China (3 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · History (2 works) · National language (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Standard language (2 works)