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Author Tam, Gina Anne, 1986- author.

Title Dialect and nationalism in China, 1860-1960 / Gina Anne Tam
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 261 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps
Contents Introduction -- 1. A Chinese language : fangyan before the twentieth century -- 2. Unchangeable roots : fangyan and the creation of the Chinese national language -- 3. The sounds of authenticity : defining linguistic modernity in republican China -- 4. The people's language : fangyan under the CCP -- 5. The Mandarin revolution : the great leap to a standard language -- Epilogue
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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 14, 2023)
Subject Language policy -- China
Chinese language -- Variation
Language and languages -- Political aspects.
Language spread -- Political aspects -- China
Language planning -- China
Language and culture -- China
Chinese language -- Variation
Language and culture
Language and languages -- Political aspects
Language planning
Language policy
China
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019038303
ISBN 9781108801225
1108801226
9781108776400
110877640X
9781108788571
1108788572