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The Name Game: The Anglicizing of Asian Students - 1 views

www.brighthubeducation.com/...eign-learners-has-gone-too-far

Language Part 1 Identity Names Non-English names Chinese Anglicization Culture

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Jenni Young on 21 Aug 14

Why are students, especially those from China, being told to Anglicize their names? How do the benefits outweigh the issues of culture shock, loss of identity and disconnection from their own culture?

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Jenni Young on 21 Aug 14

Why are students, especially those from China, being told to Anglicize their names? How do the benefits outweigh the issues of culture shock, loss of identity and disconnection from their own culture?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Why are students, especially those from China, being told to Anglicize their names? How do the benefits outweigh the issues of culture shock, loss of identity and disconnection from their own culture?</div>

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Cambodian Media 'Not Free,' US Watchdog Says - 0 views

www.voacambodia.com/...1653449.html

Mass communication Part 2 Censorship Cambodia Internet

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Jenni Young on 11 Apr 14

US group Freedom House ranked Cambodia 149 of 196 countries in terms of press freedoms, putting it in the company of Burma, Cuba, China and North Korea, among others.

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Jenni Young on 11 Apr 14

US group Freedom House ranked Cambodia 149 of 196 countries in terms of press freedoms, putting it in the company of Burma, Cuba, China and North Korea, among others.

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BBC World Service - Boston Calling, Chinese Characters , English Names for Chinese - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/p01xykcg

Language Part 1 Names Identity Chinese

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Jenni Young on 26 Apr 14

2 items from BBC online. 1. What is behind all the strange American-sounding names so popular in China? 2. Some Westerners also take Chinese names.

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Jenni Young on 26 Apr 14

What is behind all the strange American-sounding names so popular in China? (BBC)

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An Alarm Over the Incursion of Foreign Words - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Foreign languages Language change Chinese Culture

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Jenni Young on 30 Apr 14

While a language's absorption of foreign words is often seen as a positive mark of a society's cosmopolitanism, the reaction in China has been anything but positive - at least according to state media.

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Jenni Young on 30 Apr 14

While a language's absorption of foreign words is often seen as a positive mark of a society's cosmopolitanism, the reaction in China has been anything but positive - at least according to state media.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">While a language's absorption of foreign words is often seen as a positive mark of a society's cosmopolitanism, the reaction in China has been anything but positive - at least according to state media.</div>

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A Devotion to Language Proves Risky - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...-to-language-proves-risky.html

Language Part 1 Chinese Uighur Human Rights Mother Tongue

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Jenni Young on 12 May 14

Last August, three men were arrested and accused of "illegal fund-raising," charges that stemmed from their effort to finance a Uighur-language school in Xinjiang, China (NT Times)

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Jenni Young on 12 May 14

Last August, three men were arrested and accused of "illegal fund-raising," charges that stemmed from their effort to finance a Uighur-language school in Xinjiang, China (NT Times)

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Bloomberg News Is Said to Curb Articles That Might Anger China - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...es-that-might-anger-china.html

Mass communication Part 2 Journalism Censorship China News

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Jenni Young on 09 Nov 13

Employees of Bloomberg News said that it chose not to publish investigative articles about China's leadership because of worries that it would be evicted from the country.

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Beijing's call to ban foreign words in Chinese media meets with mocking satire | South... - 0 views

www.scmp.com/...inese-media-met-mocking-satire

Language Part 1 Chinese Mass communication Part 2 Foreign languages

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Jenni Young on 29 Apr 14

The recent call by Chinese authorities to banish foreign words in Chinese publications and broadcast has met with scathing sarcasm and mockery online.

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Jenni Young on 29 Apr 14

The recent call by Chinese authorities to banish foreign words in Chinese publications and broadcast has met with scathing sarcasm and mockery online.

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Pronunciation guide for non-English names - 1 views

www.greenriver.edu/...a-name-pronunciation-guide.pdf

Language Identity Names Part 1 Non-English names

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Ditch French and German lessons for Mandarin, says David Cameron - 0 views

www.independent.co.uk/...-draws-to-a-close-8983758.html

Language Part 1 Global languages Chinese

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Jenni Young on 05 Dec 13

British Prime Minister David Cameron has thrown his weight behind efforts to prioritise the teaching of Mandarin in UK schools.

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