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- catalog abstract ""Empires of the Mind is the first study to examine I.A. Richards's dissemination of "world" English in China. The leading literary critic of British Modernism, whose writings inspired the American New Criticism, Richards turned aside from literature in the Thirties to promote Basic English, an 850-word version of the language designed to foster international communication and world peace. This study traces the links between Richard's linguistic theories and his political ideals and charts the extraordinary fortunes of Basic English over a fifty-year span in China. It explores the cultural milieu of inter-war Britain, as well as that of a rapidly developing China, to explain the origins of Richards's vision and its initial successes among the Chinese. The First World War, the Japanese invasion of China, the Communist victory under Mao Tse Dong, the rise of the Cold War, and the Cultural Revolution all play a part in the history of Richards's internationalist hopes for China, which he came to see as an alternative to Europe's more violent path to modernity."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13112130.
- catalog coverage "China Languages.".
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""Empires of the Mind is the first study to examine I.A. Richards's dissemination of "world" English in China. The leading literary critic of British Modernism, whose writings inspired the American New Criticism, Richards turned aside from literature in the Thirties to promote Basic English, an 850-word version of the language designed to foster international communication and world peace. This study traces the links between Richard's linguistic theories and his political ideals and charts the extraordinary fortunes of Basic English over a fifty-year span in China. It explores the cultural milieu of inter-war Britain, as well as that of a rapidly developing China, to explain the origins of Richards's vision and its initial successes among the Chinese. The First World War, the Japanese invasion of China, the Communist victory under Mao Tse Dong, the rise of the Cold War, and the Cultural Revolution all play a part in the history of Richards's internationalist hopes for China, which he came to see as an alternative to Europe's more violent path to modernity."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-251) and index.".
- catalog description "The Cambridge background -- A moment in paradise : the first year in China, 1929-1930 -- Both sides of the looking glass : Mencius, Basic English and the Rockefeller Foundation, 1931-1935 -- The Orthological Institute of China, 1936 -- War and the flight to Kunming, 1937-1945 -- Empires of the future : Communist China and the Cold War, 1950-1951.".
- catalog extent "256 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Empires of the mind.".
- catalog identifier "0804748225 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Empires of the mind.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Empires of the mind.".
- catalog spatial "China Languages.".
- catalog spatial "China".
- catalog spatial "China.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "828/.91209 21".
- catalog subject "Basic English.".
- catalog subject "British China History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Communication, International.".
- catalog subject "Critics Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Educators Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "English language China.".
- catalog subject "English language Study and teaching Chinese speakers.".
- catalog subject "English philology Study and teaching (Higher) China.".
- catalog subject "English philology Study and teaching China.".
- catalog subject "Language and culture China.".
- catalog subject "PR6035.I337 Z76 2004".
- catalog subject "Richards, I. A. (Ivor Armstrong), 1893-1979 Influence.".
- catalog subject "Richards, I. A. (Ivor Armstrong), 1893-1979 Knowledge China.".
- catalog subject "Richards, I. A. (Ivor Armstrong), 1893-1979 Knowledge Language and languages.".
- catalog subject "Richards, I. A. (Ivor Armstrong), 1893-1979 Travel China.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Cambridge background -- A moment in paradise : the first year in China, 1929-1930 -- Both sides of the looking glass : Mencius, Basic English and the Rockefeller Foundation, 1931-1935 -- The Orthological Institute of China, 1936 -- War and the flight to Kunming, 1937-1945 -- Empires of the future : Communist China and the Cold War, 1950-1951.".
- catalog title "Empires of the mind : I.A. Richards and Basic English in China, 1929-1979 / Rodney Koeneke.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".