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The nature of Taiwan's present day linguistic diversity may not have manifested itself the way it did had Taiwan not been colonized by Japan from 1895 to 1945, suggests Heylen (Taiwanese culture and literature, Ruhr-U. Bochum, Germany), and had China and Japan not embarked upon their process of nation building and language standardization at that time. It is against the background of these two historical realities that she explores linguistic modernization in Taiwan, past and present. She covers Taiwan's historico-linguistic setting, the Japanese regime, the romanized Taiwanese movement, the Mandarin baihuawen movement, and the written Taiwanese movement. The study is largely based on her 2001 doctoral dissertation at Catholic University Leuven. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
