Autor: Da Zheng

Monolingual, monolithic English is an issue of the past. In this collection, by using cinema, poetry, art, and novels we demonstrate that English has become the heteroglossic language of immigration …

In 1933, Shih-I Hsiung (19021991), a student from China, met with Allardyce Nicoll, a Shakespearean scholar at the University of London, to discuss his Ph D study in English drama. After learning abo …

A young man arrives in England in the 1930s, knowing few words of the English language. Yet, two years later he writes a successful English book on Chinese art, and within the following decade publis …