FOW059 – Language, Dialect & Nationalism in China (with Gina Tam) [EN]

• Gina Tam
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  • Website
• Gina’s book
  • Freely available first chapter (access to the entire book for some university libraries)
• Blog article: What Makes a Language Policy Revolutionary?
• FOW episode #41 on Chinese rap music with Lauren Texeira
• fangyan 方言: not quite “dialect”, not quite translatable
• Chao Yuen Ren
• Different ways to represent the sounds of Chinese without writing Chinese characters:
  • Wade-Giles
  • Bopomofo
  • Pinyin
• The Great Leap Forward

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Photo: First Putonghua teaching achievement exhibition in 1958 via Age of Revolutions