Long live Cantopop
In Chinatown, Cantonese squares off against Mandarin
IT IS a novelty that few students are likely to notice. When the University of British Columbia (UBC) resumes classes in September it will for the first time offer a course for credit in Cantonese. That seems an unremarkable decision by a Chinese-language department that claims to be the largest in North America. In fact, it is a bookish act of resistance.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Long live Cantopop”
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