Empires of the Mind: I. A. Richards and Basic English in China, 1929-1979
“Koeneke has produced a very detailed and informative account of Basic English in China....the story of Richards and Basic English in China is fascinating and it is worth reading the book just for that.”—Asian Studies Review\ “Telling the fascinating and somewhat improbable tale of I. A. Richards's efforts to persuade the Chinese to adopt Basic English, Rodney Koeneke has given us a magnificent book,written with the insight of a poet and the documentation of a historian. ” —Peter...
Search in google:
Empires of the Mind is the first study to examine British literary critic I.A. Richards’s effort to foster world peace by promoting an 850-word version of “global” English in China.
1Introduction12The Cambridge Background223A Moment in Paradise: The First Year in China, 1929-1930534Both Sides of the Looking Glass: Mencius, Basic English and the Rockefeller Foundation, 1931-1935765The Orthological Institute of China, 19361006War and the Flight to Kunming, 1937-19451317Empires of the Future: Communist China and the Cold War, 1950-19511868Conclusion210Notes223Bibliography245Index253
