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Katharin Tai, Nils Wieland
FOW059 – Language, Dialect & Nationalism in China (with Gina Tam) [EN]
NOV 12, 2020
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Gina Tam
Twitter
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
Self-promotion
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Photo: First Putonghua teaching achievement exhibition in 1958 via Age of Revolutions

