Silencing Shanghai - Language and Identity in Urban China

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.

List of contents

Chapter 1: A Cosmopolitan Past
Chapter 2: "China Dream" vs the Shanghai Dialect
Chapter 3: Geographical Displacement and Language Loss
Chapter 4: Social Integration and "New Shanghairen" as Euphemism
Chapter 5: Forever Waidiren or Honorary Shanghairen?

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Fang Xu, Xu Fang
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781793635310
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-531-0
• No. of pages: 276
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; China, Shanghai, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Urban communities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, Urban communities / city life