Über den Autor
Fang Xu is lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Studies Field program at University of California, Berkeley.
Klappentext
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.
