Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960

Autor*innen

• Gina Anne Tam

Parameter

• China
• Historisches Thema
• Linguistik
• Sachliteratur

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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.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Einband: Paperback