[Linganth] Fwd: Eric Henry on his new book

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Andy Zhenzhou Ten interviews Eric Henry about his new book, The Future 
Conditional.   You can find this engaging conversation
on the CaMP anthropology blog: https://campanthropology.org 
<https://campanthropology.org>

Best,
Ilana

The press blurb:

In/The Future Conditional/, Eric S. Henry brings twelve-years of 
expertise and research to offer a nuanced discussion of the 
globalization of the English language and the widespread effects it has 
had on Shenyang, the capital and largest city of China's northeast 
Liaoning Province.Adopting an ethnographic and linguistic perspective, 
Henry considers the personal connotations that English, has for Chinese 
people, beyond its role in the education system. Through research on how 
English is spoken, taught, and studied in China, Henry considers what 
the language itself means to Chinese speakers. How and why, he asks, has 
English become so deeply fascinating in contemporary China, 
simultaneously existing as a source of desire and anxiety? The answer, 
he suggests, is that English-speaking Chinese consider themselves 
distinctly separate from those who do not speak the language, the result 
of a cultural assumption that speaking English makes a person modern.

Seeing language as a study that goes beyond the classroom,/The Future 
Conditional/assesses the emerging viewpoint that, for many citizens, 
speaking English in China has become a cultural need—and, more 
immediately, a realization of one's future.

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