Examines a crucial episode in the history of language policy in British colonial education: the orientalist-Anglicist controversy of the 1830s over the content and medium of government education in India. Reassesses Macaulay's influence on British language policy and looks at short-term and long-term consequences of Macaulay's scheme in India and…

Examines Hong Kong's new English language policy in education. Aims to show that the problems that have confronted English language policymakers in the past two decades owe their origins to the unique historical forces that have shaped the development of education and society in Hong Kong since the mid-nineteenth century. (Author/VWL)

The 10-year history of the Morrison Education Society School, the beginning of Anglo-Chinese education in Hong Kong, is chronicled from 1842, focusing on its aims for general and English-language education, Chinese and English curriculum content, teaching methods for Chinese and English, and the influence of the school's western teachers and…