01-13-2020, 02:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-13-2020, 02:43 PM by John J. Xenakis.)
** 13-Jan-2020 World View: Southern China
That's a lot of good information. Thank you.
That also puts into perspective the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein
Broadway show Flower Drum Song.
(01-11-2020, 08:44 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: > The Chiang Kai Shek's nationalists were from primarily from
> "southern" China - that is, from the Yangtze River basin rather
> than from the Yellow River basin - but not so far south as to be
> Cantonese, which is perhaps best associated with the Pearl River
> basin. The Yangtze River basin area is still Mandarin speaking,
> as opposed to the Pearl River basin. When the Nationalists were
> driven out by the Communists, they did retreat south, but took
> their Mandarin speaking nationalist government with them to
> Taiwan.
> Plenty of Cantonese fled the Communists, too - my mother was one
> of them - but they mostly either stayed in Hong Kong or emigrated
> to the US rather than going to Taiwan.
> I think Taiwanese was the most commonly spoken dialect of Chinese
> in Taiwan in 1986. However, Mandarin was becoming more common as
> a result of all official schooling being done in Mandarin from
> 1945-1990 or so. Wikipedia says Mandarin is now the most commonly
> used language at home in Taiwan at 83.5%, but bilingualism is much
> more common than I realized, with Taiwanese at 81.9% using it at
> home.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Taiwan
That's a lot of good information. Thank you.
That also puts into perspective the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein
Broadway show Flower Drum Song.
