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Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960 (Hardcover)
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Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960 (Hardcover)
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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. She simultaneously
highlights, on the other hand, the folksong collectors,
playwrights, hip-hop artists and popular protestors who argued that
fangyan were more authentic and representative of China's national
culture and its history. From the late Qing through the height of
the Maoist period, these intertwined visions of the Chinese nation
- one spoken in one voice, one spoken in many - interacted and
shaped one another, and in the process, shaped the basis for
national identity itself.
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