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...Vice-president Lai Ching-te, the candidate from the ruling Democratic Progressive party and frontrunner for the January polls, accused Beijing of unfairly targeting the Taiwanese company ahead of an election...
...“These people were trying to rebuild their social networks and associating preferably with those who spoke the same dialect,” says Yang. “They were living in their little cocoons.”...
...bureaucrats to unify China in the 1950s, and the many dialects of Chinese....
...Tickets are much pricier; the Beijing to Kunming high-speed train can cost double my Y600 (£70) slow-sleeper ticket....
...Everyone who has been to secondary school in Beijing speaks some English. In fact, most of my Chinese friends speak two mutually indistinguishable dialects: one hometown and one for Beijing....
...I brushed up before my trip by listening to an old speech exemplifying the dialect by Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese leader who began the process of economic reform in the 1990s....
...Add the brilliantly evoked sense of exile when the woe-chased couple retreat to a village with a dialect they don’t understand and a shoreline heaped with decaying fishing tackle....
...He was an outsider who spoke Mandarin and English but not Cantonese, Hong Kong’s dominant dialect....
...The region’s Mandarin dialect is also intelligible across the country, yet distinctive enough to be found amusing....
...While Mr Kovrig was a familiar figure among Beijing’s expatriate community, Mr Spavor was better known in Korea-watching circles and had many friends in Seoul....
...Chinese people tend to enjoy a certain bouncy quality in their food, often evoked by the Taiwanese dialect word Q (a really bouncy morsel may be described as QQ)....
...The cacophony of the room is overwhelming; it’s a bit like an English pub after a major football victory but with Sichuan dialect, boiling oil and chillies....
...From dialect to diet to stereotypical personality, the differences are deeply felt. Kansai people are held to be outgoing, Kanto people reserved....
...I have seen waves of recent university graduates arrive in Beijing and Shanghai....
...Gulangyu — known as Kulangsu in the local Fujian dialect — is a typical example of this trend, which has been repeated from Tibet to the Great Wall....
...In response, they sought to construct a common language, based largely on the Beijing dialect....
...Disco dancing assembly line robots, comedy sketches in the Dongbei dialect of Chinese — and an impassioned reading of the poem “Snow” by Mao Zedong — greeted the opening of BMW’s newest factory in China....
...In addition to being majority ethnically Chinese island nations, the Hokkien dialect is widely spoken in both Singapore and Taiwan....
...Modern China has done its best to obliterate any forms of local culture in favour of a state-sanctioned sameness, free of dialects, ethnic identities or local loyalties....
...This year the RSC toured Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong with the English-language originals of Henry IV Parts I & II and Henry V, directed by Gregord Doran with Horsley as assistant director....
...My three-year-old daughter has grown up in Beijing and learned the lyrics to “Let it Go”, from Frozen, along with most of the Beijing resident toddlers she knows....
...In 2007, Beijing introduced eligibility restrictions on foreign adoptions, indicating there were fewer healthy infants available....
...to people who do not speak the local dialect....
...China’s 56 ethnic groups speak more than 80 languages and dialects....
...Taiwan has a strong indigenous culture and its own Hokkien dialect. Many Taiwanese have watched events in Hong Kong, which came to a violent semi-conclusion this week, with growing alarm....
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