Fang Xu

Silencing Shanghai

Language and Identity in Urban China

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Silencing Shanghai examines the paradoxical and counterintuitive contrast between Shanghai's emergence as a global city and marginalization of the Shanghai dialect. The endangerment of the vernacular exposes how state-sponsored social exclusion silences a significant voice of the people and shakes the linguistic foundation of the local identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9781793635310
• ISBN-10: 1793635315
• Artikelnr.: 61438963

Autorenporträt

Fang Xu is lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Studies Field program at University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: A Cosmopolitan Past
Chapter 2: "China Dream" vs the Shanghai Dialect
Chapter 3: Geographical Displacement and Language Loss
Chapter 4: Social Integration and "New Shanghairen" as Euphemism
Chapter 5: Forever Waidiren or Honorary Shanghairen?