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 diff...

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1. Verfasser:	Tam, Gina Anne 1986- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, USA ; Port Melbourne, Australia ; New Delhi, India ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2020
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1860-1960 Language policy > China Chinese language > Variation Language and languages > Political aspects > China Language spread > Political aspects > China Language planning > China Language and culture > China Nationalbewusstsein Mundart Sprachpolitik China
Zusammenfassung:	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
Beschreibung:	xiii, 261 Seiten Illustrationen, Faksimiles
ISBN:	9781108745697