books.google.ca - "In producing a book on China as a linguistic area, the ideal is a comprehensive and accurate account that places China's linguistic diversity in a meaningful historical, geographical, and social context. Ramsey has succeeded admirably in achieving this end."--Jerome L. Packard, The Journal of Asian...http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Languages_of_China.html?id=2E_5nR0SoXoC&q=standard+language&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Languages of China
