Challenging the widely accepted narrative that national languages create national identity, Tam narrates the history of the Chinese nation and Chinese nationalism from the perspective of fangyan - dialects or regional languages distinct from Mandarin - and in so doing, shows how they were central to the making of modern nationalism in China.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Author(s): Gina Anne (Trinity University, Texas) Tam
Illustration(s): Worked examples or Exercises; 20 Halftones, black and white