Is Chinese replacing Japanese as the East Asian business language?

For our project we sought to find if Chinese is replacing Japanese as the East Asian business language just as the economy is shifting from Japan towards China. We limited our research pool to non-heritage undergraduates at the advanced level of Japanese and Chinese languages. We conducted eight interviews, four on Chinese learners and four on Japanese learners, and found their motivations behind studying these languages. We also sought to discover if their motivations reflected common trends of neoliberalism. Overall, our findings matched our hypothesis and there was a division of motivations: Chinese was learned for business purposes while Japanese was learned for entertainment purposes.unpublishe