Aspiring to be global : language, mobilities, and social change in a tourism village in China

This thesis contributes to our understanding of the sociolinguistics of globalization by examining a tourism site in Yangshuo County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China. A former residential neighborhood street West Street (Xi Jie) in Yangshuo has been gaining increasing popularity a...

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Main Author: Gao, Shuang
Published: King's College London (University of London) 2014
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.628500