One Country, Two Systems, Three Languages: A Survey of Changing Language Use in Hong Kong

by Helen Kelly-Holmes (Editor)

In 1997, Hong Kong has the attention of the world as it moves from being one of the world's most liberal market economies to inclusion in one of the few remaining states which might be termed communist. The set of papers and debates in this volume derive from a conference that took place in Hong Kong one year before this changeover, and in which the participants attempted to analyze the patterns of language use that prevailed in mid-1996 and to assess the linguistic changes that might accompany the political shift.

104 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1997