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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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Summary: | "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 categorically different from the Chinese national language, Mandarin. She traces how, on the one hand, linguists, policy-makers, bureaucrats and workaday educators framed fangyan as non-standard "variants" of the Chinese language, subsidiary in symbolic importance to standard Mandarin"-- |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 261 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781108801225 1108801226 9781108776400 110877640X 9781108788571 1108788572 |
DOI: | 10.1017/9781108776400 |