Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Note on the Use of Original Scripts in this Volume -- Introduction: Language Standardization and Language Variation in Multilingual Contexts - Asian Perspectives -- Part 1 Histories of Standardization in Multilingual Contexts -- 1 Language Codification: Coloniality, Society and History -- 2 Linguistic Variation in Late Qing Western Sources: An Analysis of Edkins' Grammar of Shanghainese -- 3 Teaching Mandarin Pronunciation to Mongolian Learners in Early Republican Period China: The Case of the Mongolian Han Original Sounds of the Five Regions (Meng Han Hebi Wufang Yuanyin, 蒙漢合璧五方元音) -- Part 2 Standardization and Variation in Multilingual China: Implications for Education, Testing, Policy and Practice -- 4 Reconciling Multilingualism and Promotion of the Standard Language in Education in China -- 5 Language Standards in Language Testing: The Case of Variation in Written Chinese Proficiency Tests for Second Language Learners -- 6 Social Meaning and Variation in Perception: Beijingers' Attitudes Towards Beijing Mandarin -- 7 Global Chinese and Malaysian Mandarin: Transnational Standards for the Chinese Language -- Part 3: Standardization and Minoritized Languages in Multilingual Contexts -- 8 How Standard Zhuang has Met with Market Forces -- 9 Is Sibe a Linguistic Continuation of Manchu? -- 10 Language Standardization for Tibetans in the People's Republic of China -- 11 Politeness Strategies, Language Standardization and Language Purism in Amdo Tibetan -- 12 Erasure and Revitalization of an Endangered Language: The Case of Jejueo in South Korea -- 13 Standardizing Indigenous Languages in Thailand Through Orthography Development and Mother Tongue-based Multilingual Education: The Case of Patani Malay -- Part 4 Negotiating Standards and Variation: Case Studies From Japanese -- 14 After Language Standardization: Dialect Cosplay in Japan -- 15 Negotiating 'Standard' Gendered Speech in Japanese: The Case of Transgender Speakers -- 16 Between Standardization and Localization: Changes in Tôhoku Dialect as Spoken in Hawai'i -- Index