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OverviewSilencing 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 ... Full Product DetailsAuthor: Fang XuPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books Dimensions: Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.40cm Weight: 0.435kg ISBN: 9781793635334ISBN 10: 1793635331 Pages: 276 Publication Date: 15 March 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsChapter 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?ReviewsSilencing Shanghai is a lucid and poignant account of the precipitous decline of the distinctive Shanghai dialect, or language, that once thoroughly permeated life in this city. This unique ethnography treats this urban dialect as a lens on the struggle to maintain a distinct urban identity and culture in the face of neoliberal globalization and state-led nation-building. The book examines both insiders -- the Shanghairen -- and newcomers -- the new migrants from other parts of China -- as they try to maintain or establish their positions in this ever-changing global city. -- James Farrer, Professor of Sociology at Sophia University in Tokyo and author of <i>Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture</i> and <i>Market Reform in Shanghai and International Migrants in China's Global City: The New Shanghailanders</i> This book offers a panorama of transformative language life and linguistic contentions, which makes the investigation meaningful for researchers interested in endangered language and identity. * Language in Society * Fang Xu's Silencing Shanghai: Language and Identity in Urban China is a welcome addition to the limited, non-ideological scholarship about the world's largest country that continues to suffer from ideological bias and related western exoticism. Employing a wide range of multimodal methods, quantitative and qualitative data, and linguistically-informed rich ethnography, Xu describes, discusses, and gives close up examples of the impact of a century of intensive Chinese nation-building, and subsequent neoliberal globalization of this great city.... I must note at the end of this review, that despite its modest 276-page length, Silencing Shanghai: Language and Identity in Urban China covers much more territory than I would be able to cover, even in a long review essay. In essence, it is a book that ought to be read in its entirety. * Urbanities * Fang Xu, who was born and raised in Shanghai, combines her research expertise with her first-hand experience as a Shanghairen (Shanghai-person/people) who witnessed the relatively recent social and linguistic transitions of the city. This insider perspective, both culturally and linguistically, is especially valuable in teasing apart the complexities faced by the city, its languages, and its people. * Asian Studies Review * Author InformationFang Xu is lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Studies Field program at University of California, Berkeley. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |