[BOOK REVIEW] Zhangxian Pan (2005). Linguistic and Cultural Identities in Chinese Varieties of English. Beijing: Peking University Press. 280 pp. ISBN 7-301-10261-5.
Abstract
This book focuses on how English is changing, and developing new forms and
functions, through its interaction with China and the Chinese people, or what Pan
calls Chinese Varieties of English (CVE). This is an important area of study because
despite the explosion of research into new varieties of English since the late 1970s
and the current push to learn English in China, CVE has received relatively little
scholarly attention