There are hundreds of dialects in chinese. What you really need to know is, facing what this yiddish linguist, max weinreck once said: A language is a dialect with an army and navy. So essentially, it's really just a power standardization. Who has the bigger guns, and that's the language... And thas repisely what happened. If the chinese cannot communicate with their own people, how are they supposed to communicate with the outside, right? Cause they needte one language. I every nation has a national language. For china to become a proper nation, it needed and anita citizens who spoke that language. We so that