Gina Anne Tam

Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781108745697
• ISBN-10: 1108745695
• Artikelnr.: 62111002

Autorenporträt

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.