Conclusion

 This chapter generalizes the mechanisms or forces that shape the linguistic landscape in Chinese cities as specified in the current book. Commodification of multilingual practices, construction of city images and national images, and contestations and negotiations of ideologies are expounded as three main dimensions that frame the dynamics of Chinese linguistic landscape. Apart from unveiling the localized features and characteristics in the linguistic landscape of Chinese cities, this chapter also discusses how linguistic landscape mediates city governance and image/identity construction, and in what ways the management of linguistic landscape contributes to the harmony of language life in the multilingual society.