
Karl Gerth, “China: Up Close and Personal” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in East Asian Studies
00:00
What Is China?
One has to be careful when you say, what is china? You have to look even to day, presumably. And and have a little bit more sensitive awareness of the disparities as you travel around the country. The difference between some chinese dialects, like i studied a minanu, the language spoken on tiwan and the southern half of the province fuden, opposite of taiwan, and it's unintelligible. So that's just within ethnicallyhan chinese. Then you know, its something ten percent of the population, but 50 % of the land mass, up until recently, hav been occupied by all these ethnic minorities who look quite different from chinese
Transcript
Play full episode