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Taking aim at the conventional narrative that standard national languages transform ''peasants'' into citizens Gina Anne Tam centers the history of the Chinese nation and national identity on fangyan - languages like Shanghainese Cantonese and dozens of others that are categorically different from the Chinese national language Mandarin. She traces how on the one hand linguists policy-makers bureaucrats and workaday educators framed fangyan as non-standard ''variants'' of the Chinese language sub