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INTRODUCTION: The contemporary challenges facing plurilingual societies

  • Associate Professor Michael Ewing,

The power structures needed to create and enforce common systems of communication can simultaneously disadvantage others.

Taiwan transitions and tribal tongues: From the language of reconciliation to the revitalisation of language?

  • Dr Brett Todd,

Taiwan’s indigenous languages have suffered under various colonial regimes. Can they be revived?

English language education in China is being challenged as against Chinese culture

  • Associate Professor Delia Lin,

English language education is getting increasingly political within China as US–China rivalry intensifies.

The potential risks of standardising China’s translated foreign affairs discourse

  • Assistant Professor Bei Hu,

Translation standardisation is seen as a way of managing the risk of mis-translation, but it doesn’t necessarily produce the best translations

WEBINAR: Hong Kong’s National Security Law: one year on

This webinar looks at the impact of the National Security Law on peaceful political speech in Hong Kong.

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