Silencing Shanghai: Language and Identity in Urban China by Fang Xu

Silencing Shanghai: Language and Identity in Urban China

Fang Xu

273 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction sociology medium-paced
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Silencing Shanghai investigates the paradoxical and counterintuitive contrast between Shanghai's emergence as a global city and the marginalization of its native population, captured through the rapid decline of the distinctive Shanghai dialect. F...

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