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What hope for a trilingual Hong Kong?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Joseph Boyle
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Abstract

An assessment of the language prospects in China's new Special Administrative Region (SAR)

Type
Research Article
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English Today , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , October 1998 , pp. 34 - 39
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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