Challenging the widely accepted narrative that national languages create national identity, Tam narrates the history of the Chinese nation and Chinese nationalism from the perspective of fangyan - dialects or regional languages distinct from Mandarin - and in so doing, shows how they were central to the making of modern nationalism in China.
Challenging the widely accepted narrative that national languages create national identity, Tam narrates the history of the Chinese nation and Chinese nationalism from the perspective of fangyan - dialects or regional languages distinct from Mandarin - and in so doing, shows how they were central to the making of modern nationalism in China.
Gina Anne Tam is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History at Trinity University, Texas.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. A Chinese language: Fangyan before the twentieth century 2. Unchangeable roots: Fangyan and the creation of a 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.
Introduction 1. A Chinese language: Fangyan before the twentieth century 2. Unchangeable roots: Fangyan and the creation of a 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.
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