Sounding the nation : dialect and the making of modern China
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation argues that the concept of "dialect" was fundamental to the formation of modern Chinese nationalism and identity. I contend that elite and non-elite groups, inspired by diverse conceptualizations of nation, local place, and self, relegated China's myriad local languages to the status of 'dialect' -- a category that simultaneously webbed local communities to the broader concept of the Chinese nation, but also excluded them by placing them outside of the idealized form of "standard" Chinese. By tracing how the meaning of dialect was transformed by nineteenth-century Western missionaries, early twentieth-century artists and academics, and finally, the Nationalist and Communist governments, I show how Chinese—both as a language and as a national and ethnic moniker— was not just heterogeneous, but something that state-defined standards could not adequately capture.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Tam, Gina Anne |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History. |
| Primary advisor | Mullaney, Thomas S. (Thomas Shawn) |
| Thesis advisor | Mullaney, Thomas S. (Thomas Shawn) |
| Thesis advisor | Inoue, Miyako, 1962- |
| Thesis advisor | Lee, Haiyan |
| Thesis advisor | Sommer, Matthew Harvey, 1961- |
| Advisor | Inoue, Miyako, 1962- |
| Advisor | Lee, Haiyan |
| Advisor | Sommer, Matthew Harvey, 1961- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Gina Anne Tam. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2016 by Gina Anne Tam
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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