This episode features the second half of our discussion with Dr. Gina Anne Tam, Associate Professor of History at Trinity University, and author of Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860 – 1960 from Cambridge University Press. In this episode, we talk about the relationship between Mandarin and Cantonese in teaching and academia, as well as English’s immense power in the global linguistic landscape.
Works mentioned in this episode:
Silencing Shanghai, by Fang Xu
Gerald Roche (various articles)
Cantonese as Written Language, by Don Snow
Not Like a Native Speaker, by Rey Chow
The Fall of Language in the Age of English, by Minae Mizumura
Borderlands/La Frontera, by Gloria Anzaldúa
Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language, by James Griffiths
Sound, Meaning, Shape: The Phonologist Wei Jiangong (1901-1980) between Language Study and Language Planning, by Mariana Münning
Episode vocabulary and transcript
Conversation: 爛gag (粵語)
Guest Episode: Vivek Mahbubani, Part 2 (粵語)
Guest Episode: Vivek Mahbubani, Part 1 (粵語)
Learning Tip: Intro to Sentence Final Particles and the Uses of "aa" (English/粵語)
Conversation: Updating Old Movie Lines (粵語)
Guest Episode: Chaakming Lau, Part 2 (粵語)
Guest Episode: Chaakming Lau, Part 1 (粵語)
Learning Tip: How can I differentiate between "a" and "aa"? (English/粵語)
Conversation: Winter food cravings (粵語)
Guest Episode: Brittany Chan, Part 2 (English/粵語)
Guest Episode: Brittany Chan, Part 1 (English/粵語)
Learning Tip: Is 你 pronounced "nei5" or "lei5"? (English/粵語)
Conversation: Talking about fandom in Cantonese (粵語)
Guest Episode: John Wakefield, Part 2 (粵語)
Guest Episode: John Wakefield, Part 1 (粵語)
Learning Tip: How can I tell the difference between similar tones? (English/粵語)
Conversation: Can you learn Cantonese through Cantopop? (粵)
Guest Episode: Pearl Low, Part 2 (English/粵語)
Guest Episode: Pearl Low, Part 1 (English/粵語)
Learning Tip: How many tones does Cantonese have? (English/粵語)
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