9.1阅读输入：（1）As Chinas Role in the World 英美概况——纵览·博闻Changes, So Does Mandarins Role in China.pdf

AsChinasRoleintheWorldChanges, SoDoesMandarinsRoleinChina TheChinesenationalidentityhaslongbeentiedup withitslanguage,fornativesandforeignersalike. 1Theres an experience commontomany first-timevisitorsto China,whooften recount it withsurprise,delight,andasenseofdiscoveringsomethinguniquely Chinese.Ithappenswhen they uttertheirfirst sentencein mandarinto a Chinese stranger -- ataxi driver, awatermelon vendor, or an old man practicing water calligraphy in the park -- and see the persons face instantly light up in amazement. That amazement might turn to reverence if the speaker can demonstrateevenashakycomfortwiththelanguage.Waiguoren--foreigners--arenolongera rare sight in many parts of thisbriskly modernizing country, andwith theworldwideboom in studying Chinese, an increasing number of them bring language skills. While the novelty is wearing off,Chinesecontinuetobefascinatedby foreignersabletospeaktheirmothertongue. Its a fun moment of cross-cultural bonding, but its also a product of Chinas complicated relationship with its own language, which for centuries has been tied up with its national identity.As China and its place in the world are changing, so is the meaning of the Chinese languagefornativesandforeignersalike. 2 Most recently, this fascination manifested in Chinese web users reactions to (and obsessive viewing of) a viral Internet video, in which a young half-Caucasian, half-Asian Americanimpersonates 12different characters,amongthemaBeijinger,aHong KongChinese, a Taiwanese, a New Yorker, an African American, and a score of non-Chinese foreigners speakingEnglishwithexaggeratednativeaccents.HisimmaculateChineseandjarringlyprecise grasp of the slangs, accents, and subtleties in the languages regional variations amazed his Chinese audience. What are you trying to do? Some users, pinching a line from his skit, asked on Weibo, where the video, which has over 5 million views on Youku, has been forwardedmorethan435,000times.