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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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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Table of 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.