Chunsheng Yang is an associate professor of Chinese and applied linguistics at the University of Connecticut, U.S.A. Chunsheng's main research areas are Chinese phonetics, phonology, second-language acquisition, especially with respect to second language prosody, Chinese sociolinguistics, and Chinese pedagogy. Chunsheng has published widely on the acquisition of L2 Chinese prosody and other aspects of Chinese sounds.

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Laying the Foundation

Chapter 2 Chinese Languages: Past, Present and Future

Chapter 3 Naming and Proper Name Planning in China

Chapter 4 Language Planning, Policy and Attitudes in China

Chapter 5 Language Use, Policy, and Attitudes in Hong Kong and Macao

Chapter 6 Language Policy, Use, and Attitudes in Taiwan and Singapore

Chapter 7 Gender and Identity in Chinese Language

Chapter 8 Language and Rural/Urban Identity

Chapter 9 Identity and Language Maintenance among the Chinese Diaspora

Chapter 10 The Linguistic Landscape of Greater China

Chapter 11 Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language and its Role as a Lingua Franca

Chapter 12 English Education in China

Chapter 13 Emerging Chinese Language Forms

Chapter 14 Face, Politeness, and Responses to Compliments in Chinese