When China Rules the World

[Water Car Engineer]

I expected better from you pal. Qin standardized the Mandarin you see today. We can still read things from 2200 years ago fine.

I dont have a clue, give me a link.

 

[tanlixiang28776]

It is time for you to learn some to..if 221 BC China is the real China..then surely Tibet is not a part of you..watch history through ages.

What so because America didn't encompass its current location today its not part of America?

I'll like to see those Native Americans f**king try to take it back.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

Cantonese in China protest over language loss fears

Mon, 26 Jul 12:56 PM IST
BEIJING (Reuters) - Hundreds of people took to the streets of the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou over the weekend to demand the government halt efforts to push aside the local Cantonese language, state media said on Monday.

The protest on Sunday was prompted by plans to switch most programming on Guangzhou television stations to the country's official language, Mandarin, feeding fears that the government wants to phase out Cantonese in official settings, reports said.

Some newspapers in Hong Kong, where Cantonese remains the main language of government, education and the man in the street, said demonstrators numbered more than 10,000, with participants singing and giving impassioned speeches in Cantonese.

The Global Times, a popular Chinese tabloid run by Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily, said the protest was peaceful and dispersed after a few hours.

"I stand for multiculturalism, and I strongly oppose the government's plan to promote Putonghua with administrative means," the report quoted one demonstrator as saying, referring to another name for the Mandarin Chinese language.

Beijing has promoted Mandarin for decades to unite a nation with thousands of dialects and numerous minority languages.

Cantonese is still widely spoken in the booming southern province of Guangdong, thanks in part to the spillover influence of Hong Kong's wildly successful and racy vernacular pop culture, but some people fear for its future.

An influx of outsiders seeking work in China's coastal export hubs has added to the onslaught on local languages.

Chinese newspapers and Internet sites have reported on companies where employees are fined for speaking Cantonese at work, prompting anger.

"I support Cantonese. If we don't speak it, we are shaming our ancestors," wrote "Bright Star" on the popular Chinese internet portal Sina.com.

The Guangzhou authorities strongly deny wanting to marginalise Cantonese.

"The city government has never had such a plan to abandon or weaken Cantonese," the Global Times quoted Su Zhijia, one of Guangzhou's Communist Party deputy bosses, as saying.

The controversy has prompted the People's Daily itself to wade in. In an editorial last week, the newspaper stressed the importance of Mandarin, but also of respecting dialects.

"We have to find a balance," it said.

Reuters

Another proof of how the Chinese posters which to purvey half truths.

What does that have to do with anything? We had one language since the Qin Dynasty.
Original Post By tanlixiang28776

 

[tanlixiang28776]

I dont have a clue, give me a link.

Qin Dynasty, Emperor Qinshihuang, First Emperor of China, Qin Dynasty Map

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

i knew it, a fun thread been ruined by indian clowns.

Are you surprised?

 

[rcrmj]

Sense the Qing right?



Who is Ray?

Qin dynasty started 221BC
and
Qing dynasty started 1644AD

 

[Nomenclature]

It is time for you to learn some to..if 221 BC China is the real China..then surely Tibet is not a part of you..watch history through ages.

Hmm...so U.S. didn't exist until Hawaii and Alaska joined?

 

[guest11]

Gambit is quite insane, and he believes the US air force can wipe out the entire Chinese defence system in the blink of an eye. So can we take him seriously if he stated something like that?

Guess what, he also stated that he is more qualified to become the commander in chief than Barack Obama, what a joker.

Strange, I never saw that Gambit is claiming as such. Hell, even I say that my younger brother is more capable of running this nation than our soft cheese PM and pirates of 10 Janapath.

But instead of countering him on technical terms, resorting to insulting his nationality which of course as a civilian, which counts me too, you don't know anything about.

 

[ares]

What so because America didn't encompass its current location today its not part of America?

I'll like to see those Native Americans f**king try.

This as opposed to

Learn some History. China was China since 221BC.

Talk about contradicting yourself.

 

[Nomenclature]

Cantonese in China protest over language loss fears

Mon, 26 Jul 12:56 PM IST
BEIJING (Reuters) - Hundreds of people took to the streets of the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou over the weekend to demand the government halt efforts to push aside the local Cantonese language, state media said on Monday.

The protest on Sunday was prompted by plans to switch most programming on Guangzhou television stations to the country's official language, Mandarin, feeding fears that the government wants to phase out Cantonese in official settings, reports said.

Some newspapers in Hong Kong, where Cantonese remains the main language of government, education and the man in the street, said demonstrators numbered more than 10,000, with participants singing and giving impassioned speeches in Cantonese.

The Global Times, a popular Chinese tabloid run by Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily, said the protest was peaceful and dispersed after a few hours.

"I stand for multiculturalism, and I strongly oppose the government's plan to promote Putonghua with administrative means," the report quoted one demonstrator as saying, referring to another name for the Mandarin Chinese language.

Beijing has promoted Mandarin for decades to unite a nation with thousands of dialects and numerous minority languages.

Cantonese is still widely spoken in the booming southern province of Guangdong, thanks in part to the spillover influence of Hong Kong's wildly successful and racy vernacular pop culture, but some people fear for its future.

An influx of outsiders seeking work in China's coastal export hubs has added to the onslaught on local languages.

Chinese newspapers and Internet sites have reported on companies where employees are fined for speaking Cantonese at work, prompting anger.

"I support Cantonese. If we don't speak it, we are shaming our ancestors," wrote "Bright Star" on the popular Chinese internet portal Sina.com.

The Guangzhou authorities strongly deny wanting to marginalise Cantonese.

"The city government has never had such a plan to abandon or weaken Cantonese," the Global Times quoted Su Zhijia, one of Guangzhou's Communist Party deputy bosses, as saying.

The controversy has prompted the People's Daily itself to wade in. In an editorial last week, the newspaper stressed the importance of Mandarin, but also of respecting dialects.

"We have to find a balance," it said.

Reuters

Another proof of how the Chinese posters which to purvey half truths.

There are differences between languages and dialects.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Qin dynasty started 221BC
and
Qing dynasty started 1644AD

No, I thought Qing standardized and spread Mandarin.

 

[ares]

Hmm...so U.S. didn't exist until Hawaii and Alaska joined?

I am not saying it din't ..I am just rubbishing his claim that "China has China since 221 BC"..coz clearly a lot has changed.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

I expected better from you pal. Qin standardized the Mandarin you see today. We can still read things from 2200 years ago fine.

Read post 148.

Reading things and understanding the same are two different things.

It does not make one language.

Marathi and Hindi have the same script and can be read by either people, but then the meaning would not be known.

That is why simplified Chinese was initiated in 1905 (IIRC) but given formal shape by Mao.

 

[tanlixiang28776]

No, I thought Qing standardized and spread Mandarin.

Way before that dude.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

There are differences between languages and dialects.

See post 148.