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Names: Chia, Caroline, editor. | Hoogervorst, Tom, 1984– editor.
Title: Sinophone Southeast Asia : Sinitic voices across the Southern Seas / by Caroline Chia, Tom Hoogervorst.
Description: Leiden; Boston : Brill, [2021] | Series: Chinese overseas: history, literature, and society; 1876-3847 ; volume 20
Identifiers: LCCN 2021032807 (print) | LCCN 2021032808 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004421226 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004473263 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Chinese language—Variation—Southeast Asia. | Chinese language—Social aspects—Southeast Asia. | Sociolinguistics—Southeast Asia. | Chinese—Southeast Asia—Social life and customs. | Southeast Asia—Languages.
Classification: LCC PL1074.7 .S59 2021 (print) | LCC PL1074.7 (ebook) |
DDC 495.1—dc23
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ISSN 1876-3847
ISBN 978-90-04-42122-6 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-47326-3 (e-book)
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