episode 59: FOW059 – Language, Dialect & Nationalism in China (with Gina Tam) [EN]
- Gina Tam
- 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
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Photo: First Putonghua teaching achievement exhibition in 1958 via Age of Revolutions