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The book explores the tension between Shanghai's rise as a global city and the declining use of the Shanghai dialect, highlighting the impact of state-sponsored social exclusion on local identity. It reveals how the endangerment of this vernacular not only silences a crucial aspect of the community's voice but also threatens the linguistic foundation that shapes the region's cultural heritage.
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Silencing Shanghai, Fang Xu
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- Released
- 2021
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- Title
- Silencing Shanghai
- Subtitle
- Language and Identity in Urban China
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Fang Xu
- Publisher
- RLPG/Galleys
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 276
- ISBN13
- 9781793635310
- Series
- Tags
- Ethnography
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- The book explores the tension between Shanghai's rise as a global city and the declining use of the Shanghai dialect, highlighting the impact of state-sponsored social exclusion on local identity. It reveals how the endangerment of this vernacular not only silences a crucial aspect of the community's voice but also threatens the linguistic foundation that shapes the region's cultural heritage.