Silencing Shanghai: Language and Identity in Urban China

By Fang Xu

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1793635331
• ISBN13: 9781793635334
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"