Silencing Shanghai: Language And Identity In Urban China - 9781793635334

Silencing Shanghai examines the paradoxical and counterintuitive contrast between Shanghai's emergence as a global city and marginalization of the Shanghai dialect. The endangerment of the vernacular exposes how state-sponsored social exclusion silences a significant voice of the people and shakes the linguistic foundation of the local identity.

• | Author: Fang Xu
• | Publisher: Lexington Books
• | Publication Date: Jan 31, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 276 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1793635331
• | ISBN-13: 9781793635334