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 ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A small group of scholars, students and local residents of Shanghai are standing up to save their dialect, which traces its roots to one of China’s oldest spoken languages, from ...

I am Chinese American, but I was raised speaking a language that is unintelligible even to most Mandarin speakers: Shanghainese. As a kid, I learned the nuances of the dialect, from native ...

Japanese cartoon characters are now playing their part in preserving the Shanghai dialect and making the language more popular than ever among the young and hip of Shanghai. For more than four years ...

Shanghainese is a signifier of Shanghai's inclusiveness. Preservation of Shanghainese, therefore, is not an attempt to exclude people from other places; on the contrary, it is a reminder for people to ...

The Shanghai dialect has always been part of the warp and weft of life in this city. Thus, this unique language deserves protection as an intangible cultural heritage that should be passed down to ...

Zhang Fushan, 15, was born to parents who are both Shanghai natives. However, he could not speak Shanghainese properly until in recent years when he started attending middle school. Even though ...

"Nong zonie yalixiang qi zusa la?" my grandmother asked me, in Shanghainese, what I did the previous night when we were having lunch one day. Using my best Shanghainese, I answered that I went for a ...

Shanghainese, like many of the estimated 80 other local dialects spoken in China, is endangered by the central government’s pro-Mandarin policy, which allows only “putonghua” — literally, “common ...