Global English(es) and Global Chinese(s): toward rewriting a new literary history in Chinese

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In the process of the globalization in culture, English has become more and more powerful and hegemonic along with the obscurity of the boundary of nation-states. The blurring of the national identity has led to the variegation of language. Although people of almost all countries are learning the English language, the hegemonic position of the traditional ‘King's English’ or ‘Queen's English’ has gradually been deconstructed, with many global ‘englishes’ appearing in the contemporary English-speaking world and non-English-speaking world. This fact has also had a strong impact on the purity of Chinese, one of the newly emergent international languages. Along with the heightening of China's position as both an economic and political power in the world, the fever for learning Chinese will also rise in some non-Chinese-speaking countries. Like English, Chinese is also undergoing a sort of splitting: from one standard Chinese into different ‘Chineses’. Thus writing literary history could also be done by means of language rather than merely by that of country or nation. The essay concludes with the author's new model for rethinking literary historiography by calling for the rewriting of a new literary history in Chinese.View full textDownload full textRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10670560903335884