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‘Signs’ of Change: Chinese English, Hybridity, and Public Media CASSEL BUSSE McMaster University bussecj@mcmaster.ca 1. Introduction WITH THE ACCENSION TO INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION AND THE ACHIEVEMENT OF ‘SUPER POWER’ STATUS, 1 including social and political ‘landmarks’ such as China’s acceptance in the World Trade Organization in 2001, Beijing’s hosting of the Olympics in 2008, and the Shanghai World Expo set for 2010, an increasing amount of attention has been focused on China worldwide —a country which has been described as an unexplored and ‘alien’ territory (Hunter and Sexton