Frontmatter -- Language issues in China's urbanization process in the context of globalization -- Contents -- Part I: Language Work -- 1. An update on the use and management of standard spoken and written Chinese -- 2. Current situation of the management of spoken and written languages -- 3. Present situation of the work concerning ethnic languages -- 4. Sixty years' work with spoken and written languages -- Part II: Special Research -- 5. The global spread of the Chinese language -- 6. Development of the language information industry in China -- 7. The use of sign language and related issues -- 8. The language of Chinese films and TV series -- 9. Folk cant and folk life -- 10. The development of an international language environment in Beijing -- 11. The Beijing migrant children's language and identity -- 12. Language barrier and assistance during the earthquake relief operations in Yushu, Qinghai Province -- 13. A survey of the Russian language use in Inner Mongolia's Ergun City -- 14. Compilation of dictionaries of the Chinese language -- 15. Chinglish at the crossroads -- 16. The academic community on language life -- Part III: Language Focuses -- 17. Chinese characters: Traditional versus simplified debate -- 18. Debate on The General Table of Standard Chinese Characters -- 19. A heated discussion on the "crisis in writing Chinese characters" -- 20. Reflections on the incident of the "Preservation of Cantonese" in Guangzhou -- 21. The phenomenon of the Martian language -- 22. Chinese Internet buzzwords and catchphrases of 2009 -- 23. Comparisons of Chinese characters, words and phrases used in the media (2005-2009) -- 24. Chinese neologisms of the year (2009-2010) -- 25. A survey of annual catchwords in the media (2009-2010) -- 26. Changes in biliteracy and trilingualism in the Hong Kong education sector -- 27. Survey of "Yuanxingdi" as street name in Macau -- 28. Language situation in Taiwan (2009-2010) -- 29 Special. Social responses spurred on by the Report on the Language Situation in China -- Appendix -- Newspapers in written Chinese minority languages -- A record of major Chinese language events (2009) -- A record of major Chinese language events (2010) -- Contents (Chinese version 2009) -- Contents (Chinese version 2011) -- Postscript -- Editorial Teams of the English Edition -- Index