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02858aam a2200457 i 4500 001 EA7A329EB05F11EA86A2D96D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200617010021 008 190906t20202020enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019038302 020 $a 110847828X 020 $a 9781108478281 035 $a (OCoLC)1111252706 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d ERASA $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc--- 050 00 $a P119.32.C6 $b T36 2020 082 00 $a 306.44/951 $2 23 100 1 $a Tam, Gina Anne, $d 1986- $e author. 245 10 $a Dialect and nationalism in China, 1860-1960 / $c Gina Anne Tam. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xiii, 261 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- 1. A Chinese Language: Fangyan before the twentieth century -- 2. Unchangeable Roots: Fangyan and the Creation of the Chinese 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 -- Works Cited. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Language policy $z China. 650 0 $a Chinese language $x Variation. 650 0 $a Language and languages $x Political aspects. 650 0 $a Language spread $x Political aspects $z China. 650 0 $a Language planning $z China. 650 0 $a Language and culture $z China. 650 7 $a Chinese language $x Variation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00857575 650 7 $a Language and culture. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00992135 650 7 $a Language and languages $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00992197 650 7 $a Language planning. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00992397 650 7 $a Language policy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00992402 651 7 $a China. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206073 776 08 $i Online version: $a Tam, Gina Anne, 1986- $t Dialect and nationalism in China, 1860-1960 $b 1. $d New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020. $z 9781108776400 $w (DLC) 2019038303 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317030014.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EA7A329EB05F11EA86A2D96D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search