Almost two years before Wong Kar-wai’s period drama “Blossoms” brought Shanghainese back into the public spotlight, 23-year-old Hu Shiyang began writing her debut novel in the same dialect. Titled ...

BEIJING — China is launching an aggressive campaign to promote Mandarin, saying that 85% of its citizens will use the national language by 2025. The move appears to put threatened Chinese regional ...

Regarding Hugo Restall’s review of “Kingdom of Characters” (Bookshelf, March 2): The Beijing dialect, known in the West as Mandarin, was voted by the Kuomintang to be the guoyu, or national dialect, ...

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