Frontmatter -- Preface -- Foreword by Bernard Spolsky -- Table of contents -- Chapter 1. Three major linguistic issues of mankind in contemporary societies -- Chapter 2. On mother tongue -- Chapter 3. On planning of language function -- Chapter 4. Some considerations on enhancing the national language capability -- Chapter 5. Language is also a "hard power" -- Chapter 6. On levels of language life -- Chapter 7. On field language planning -- Chapter 8. Characteristics of language life in contemporary China -- Chapter 9. On foreign language planning in China -- Chapter 10. The status of authoritative dialect in language standardization -- Chapter 11. A supplement to The Status of Authoritative Dialects in Language Standardization -- Chapter 12. Building up bilingual and bi-dialectical competence -- Chapter 13. On the establishment of Chinese Language Resource Audio Database -- Chapter 14. Some thoughts on the standardization of lexical items -- Chapter 15. On terminology -- Chapter 16. Reflection on the modernization of lexicography in China -- Chapter 17. On Zhongguo Yuyan Shenghuo Lüpishu (Green Paper on the Language Situation in China) -- Chapter 18. Issues of the Chinese language in the information age -- Chapter 19. Language tasks in the information age -- Chapter 20. The work of language standardization in the information age -- Chapter 21. Constructing the grand platform of China Character Set -- Chapter 22. On annotation of language knowledge in the corpus -- Chapter 23. The needs for language learning and teaching Chinese as foreign language -- Chapter 24. The significance of a study on the history of the international dissemination of Chinese -- Chapter 25. Contemporary China: the core of international education of the Chinese language -- Chapter 26. The intension and extension of qieyinzi -- Chapter 27. The proposition of universal education in the Qieyinzi Movement -- Chapter 28. Late Qing script reformers' view of dialects -- Chapter 29. Late Qing script reformers' views on language unification -- Chapter 30. Centenary of the promulgation of the state resolution Proposal for Establishing a Common National Language -- Index