1. Bai, J. (1994). Language attitude and the spread of standard Chinese in China. Language Problems and Language Planning, 18(2), 128–138.
2. Blom, J.P. & Gumperz, J.J. (1972). Social meaning in linguistic structures: Code-switching in Norway. In J.J. Gumperz & D. Hymes (Eds.), Directions in sociolinguistics (pp. 407–435). New York: Holt, Rinehard & Winston.
3. Blum, S. D. (2001). Portraits of “primitives”: Ordering human kinds in the Chinese nation. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
4. Blum, S. D. (n.d.) Variations on the theme of standard: Language ideology and ideas of “Chinese” or Why was autocratic China linguistically tolerant? Manuscript.
5. Chiang, W. W. (1995). “We two know the script; We have become hood friends”: Linguistic and social aspects of the women’s script literacy in southern Hunan, China. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.