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02865aam a2200445 i 4500 001 F5F3724256B111EEB3013A8641ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230919010045 008 221225s2023 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022050768 020 $a 0231209037 020 $a 9780231209038 020 $a 0231209029 020 $a 9780231209021 035 $a (OCoLC)1353927918 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d TOH $d YDX $d IaU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-ch--- $a a-ch--- 050 00 $a P119.32.C6 $b C44 2023 082 00 $a 306.44/951 $2 23/eng/20230210 100 1 $a Chen, Janet Y., $d 1972- $e author. 245 14 $a The sounds of Mandarin : $b learning to speak a national language in China and Taiwan, 1913-1960 / $c Janet Y. Chen. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a xii, 412 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Dueling sounds and contending tones -- In search of Standard Mandarin -- The national language in exile -- Taiwan babel -- The common language of new China. 520 $a "How did people in China learn to speak a common language? Out of a dizzying array of regional and local vernaculars, many of them mutually unintelligible, how was the idea of a spoken standard forged? How and when did that idea become reality? The Sounds of Mandarin answers these questions by viewing the history of linguistic change from the ground up. Exploring how nation-building in the PRC era became entwined with linguistic standardization, Janet Y. Chen reveals a project of linguistic engineering riven with conflicts, as speech became a site of contestation and quotidian negotiation. By locating experiences of language learning in historical and local contexts, this study explains why nationalism is a necessary but ultimately insufficient lens for understanding China's national language. It also explains why, even today, the project of standard speech remains contested and incomplete in both China and Taiwan"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Language policy $z China $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Language policy $z Taiwan $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Mandarin dialects $x Political aspects $z China. 650 0 $a Mandarin dialects $x Political aspects $z Taiwan. 650 7 $a Language policy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00992402 651 7 $a China. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206073 651 7 $a Taiwan. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01207854 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Chen, Janet Y., 1972- $t Sounds of Mandarin $d New York : Columbia University Press, [2023] $z 9780231557757 $w (DLC) 2022050769 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117011836.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F5F3724256B111EEB3013A8641ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search