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Is English a threat to Chinese language and culture?

The ‘threat’ of English in China might be balanced by the promotion of Chinese language and culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 September 2012

Lin Pan  and
Philip Seargeant
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In an article published in English Today in 2005, Niu and Woolf contend that:

EFL is a modern day Trojan horse filled with EFL teachers/soldiers or missionaries, armed with English words rather than bullets, intent upon re-colonizing the world to remake it in the image of Western democracy. China has brought the Trojan Horse within its gates and the army of EFL teachers is hard at work Westernizing China.

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English Today , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , September 2012 , pp. 60 - 66

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