Writing in the devil's tongue
Subtitle: a history of English composition in China
By: Xiaoye You.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780809329304
Subjects: English language -- Study and teaching -- Chinese speakers; English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- China; Report writing -- Study and teaching -- China; Language and culture -- China
Description: "In showcasing the Chinese struggle with teaching and practicing bilingual composition, this book alerts American writing scholars and teachers to an untimely English monolingual mentality and urges them to modify their rhetorical assumptions, pedagogical approaches, and writing practices in the age of globalization."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Encountering the devil's writing, 1862-1918; title: Writing and decolonization, 1919-49; title: Writing and the Proletarian revolution, 1950-76; title: Writing and the four modernizations, 1977-90; title: Writing and socialism with Chinese characteristics, 1991-2008; title: Writing in our tongue.