| 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
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Chinese language -- Variation
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Language and languages -- Political aspects.
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Language spread -- Political aspects -- China
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Language planning -- China
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Language and culture -- China
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Chinese language -- Variation
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Language and culture
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Language and languages -- Political aspects
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Language planning
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Language policy
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China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019038303 |
| ISBN |
9781108801225 |
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1108801226 |
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9781108776400 |
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110877640X |
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9781108788571 |
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1108788572 |
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