Michael O’Sullivan is Associate Professor of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.David Huddart is Associate Professor of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.Carmen Lee is Associate Professor of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

“This book is successful in highlighting the struggles of people in Asia to accommodate to the tide of globalisation while maintaining their own cultural and linguistic values.” - Nobuyuki Hino, Osaka University

• 1. Introduction 2. The Future of English in Asia Andy Kirkpatrick 3. The World’s Other Languages: How Native-Speaker Linguistic Traditions Can Make a Difference to Minority Languages Nicholas Ostler 4. ‘We Must Make a People’: Cultural Translation in World Englishes David Huddart 5. The Most Misunderstood Title in the World? Recontextualizing Roy Harris’ Inaugural Lecture ‘The worst English in the world?’ Adrian Pablé 6. Beyond ‘Variety’ and ‘Community’: A Conceptual Challenge for the Study of English in Asia Andrew Sewell 7. Constructing Categories in a Multilingual Hong Kong School Kara Fleming 8. Participating in English in Social Media: The Case of Chinese Users of the Photo-sharing Site Flickr Carmen Lee 9. English Futures: the Function of Literature Bill Ashcroft 10. The Medium is the Massage: Writing, Reading and the Work of Singaporean Literature in the Age of Social Media Eddie Tay 11. Literature Minus the Local: Assessing the Viability of a Taught Postgraduate Program in Literary Studies in Contemporary Hong Kong Stuart Christie 12. ‘In Need of a Foreign Trademark’: English Literature in Mainland China Graham Matthews 13. In Dialogue: Contesting the Politics of Globalization in Hong Kong Literature in English Michael Tsang 14. Trilingual Education in Inner Mongolia—Signposts for the future of English in Asia? Bob Adamson and Yi Yayuan 15. Reppraising Anglophone Literature for Japanese Students in a Globalized Society: Developing a Resilient Life Akiyoshi Suzuki 16. Reconfiguring English Literary Studies in the Japanese Academy Myles Chilton 17. English Literature Education in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Japan: Student reception, utility, and its place in a moral education Michael O’Sullivan 18. Tiếng Anh: Learning English: From Inertia to Hegemony and Deliverance Susan D’Aloia

Michael O’Sullivan is Associate Professor of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.David Huddart is Associate Professor of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.Carmen Lee is Associate Professor of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

“This book is successful in highlighting the struggles of people in Asia to accommodate to the tide of globalisation while maintaining their own cultural and linguistic values.” - Nobuyuki Hino, Osaka University

• 1. Introduction 2. The Future of English in Asia Andy Kirkpatrick 3. The World’s Other Languages: How Native-Speaker Linguistic Traditions Can Make a Difference to Minority Languages Nicholas Ostler 4. ‘We Must Make a People’: Cultural Translation in World Englishes David Huddart 5. The Most Misunderstood Title in the World? Recontextualizing Roy Harris’ Inaugural Lecture ‘The worst English in the world?’ Adrian Pablé 6. Beyond ‘Variety’ and ‘Community’: A Conceptual Challenge for the Study of English in Asia Andrew Sewell 7. Constructing Categories in a Multilingual Hong Kong School Kara Fleming 8. Participating in English in Social Media: The Case of Chinese Users of the Photo-sharing Site Flickr Carmen Lee 9. English Futures: the Function of Literature Bill Ashcroft 10. The Medium is the Massage: Writing, Reading and the Work of Singaporean Literature in the Age of Social Media Eddie Tay 11. Literature Minus the Local: Assessing the Viability of a Taught Postgraduate Program in Literary Studies in Contemporary Hong Kong Stuart Christie 12. ‘In Need of a Foreign Trademark’: English Literature in Mainland China Graham Matthews 13. In Dialogue: Contesting the Politics of Globalization in Hong Kong Literature in English Michael Tsang 14. Trilingual Education in Inner Mongolia—Signposts for the future of English in Asia? Bob Adamson and Yi Yayuan 15. Reppraising Anglophone Literature for Japanese Students in a Globalized Society: Developing a Resilient Life Akiyoshi Suzuki 16. Reconfiguring English Literary Studies in the Japanese Academy Myles Chilton 17. English Literature Education in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Japan: Student reception, utility, and its place in a moral education Michael O’Sullivan 18. Tiếng Anh: Learning English: From Inertia to Hegemony and Deliverance Susan D’Aloia

Michael O’Sullivan is Associate Professor of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.David Huddart is Associate Professor of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.Carmen Lee is Associate Professor of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

“This book is successful in highlighting the struggles of people in Asia to accommodate to the tide of globalisation while maintaining their own cultural and linguistic values.” - Nobuyuki Hino, Osaka University

• 1. Introduction 2. The Future of English in Asia Andy Kirkpatrick 3. The World’s Other Languages: How Native-Speaker Linguistic Traditions Can Make a Difference to Minority Languages Nicholas Ostler 4. ‘We Must Make a People’: Cultural Translation in World Englishes David Huddart 5. The Most Misunderstood Title in the World? Recontextualizing Roy Harris’ Inaugural Lecture ‘The worst English in the world?’ Adrian Pablé 6. Beyond ‘Variety’ and ‘Community’: A Conceptual Challenge for the Study of English in Asia Andrew Sewell 7. Constructing Categories in a Multilingual Hong Kong School Kara Fleming 8. Participating in English in Social Media: The Case of Chinese Users of the Photo-sharing Site Flickr Carmen Lee 9. English Futures: the Function of Literature Bill Ashcroft 10. The Medium is the Massage: Writing, Reading and the Work of Singaporean Literature in the Age of Social Media Eddie Tay 11. Literature Minus the Local: Assessing the Viability of a Taught Postgraduate Program in Literary Studies in Contemporary Hong Kong Stuart Christie 12. ‘In Need of a Foreign Trademark’: English Literature in Mainland China Graham Matthews 13. In Dialogue: Contesting the Politics of Globalization in Hong Kong Literature in English Michael Tsang 14. Trilingual Education in Inner Mongolia—Signposts for the future of English in Asia? Bob Adamson and Yi Yayuan 15. Reppraising Anglophone Literature for Japanese Students in a Globalized Society: Developing a Resilient Life Akiyoshi Suzuki 16. Reconfiguring English Literary Studies in the Japanese Academy Myles Chilton 17. English Literature Education in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Japan: Student reception, utility, and its place in a moral education Michael O’Sullivan 18. Tiếng Anh: Learning English: From Inertia to Hegemony and Deliverance Susan D’Aloia