“Koeneke has produced a very detailed and informative account of Basic English in China....the story of Richards and Basic English in China is fascinating and it is worth reading the book just for that.”—Asian Studies Review
“Telling the fascinating and somewhat improbable tale of I. A. Richards's efforts to persuade the Chinese to adopt Basic English, Rodney Koeneke has given us a magnificent book,written with the insight of a poet and the documentation of a historian. ” —Peter Stansky,Stanford University