Dialect and nationalism in China, 1860-1960 / Gina Anne Tam.

"Taking aim at the conventional narrative that standard, national languages transform "peasants" into citizens, Gina Anne Tam centers the history of the Chinese nation and national identity on fangyan -- languages like Shanghainese, Cantonese, and dozens of others that are categorical...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Tam, Gina Anne, 1986- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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