Shanghai dialect is a dialect spoken in the city of Shanghai and the surrounding region. Shanghainese, like other Wu dialects, is largely not mutually intelligible with other Chinese dialects such as ...

Children in 20 kindergartens in Shanghai will be encouraged to speak their local dialect in a pilot program by the city's education authorities starting this year. The move represents a change in the ...

“Ga san hu” is now what you may hear every day if you are a loyal listener of the 2012 radio program A La Ting Xin Wen (Let’s listen to news). Many people were curious about the meaning of ga san hu.

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 ...

Blossoms Shanghai, a TV drama that depicts a story set in 1990s Shanghai, has become a hit TV series attracting much attention and sparking many discussions. Directed by renowned Shanghai-born Hong ...

More Shanghai residents can speak Mandarin than Shanghai dialect, according to a report released yesterday by the Shanghai Statistics Bureau. The report surveyed about 1,000 people aged 13 and over, ...

While Shanghai strives to be an international city, locals are worried about the preservation of its cultural identity. After the 1990s, when Shanghai increased its efforts to become an international ...

THERE ARE several reasons why “Aiqing Shenhua”, a new film released on Christmas Eve in Chinese cinemas, has surprised movie buffs. One is that the movie, whose English title is “B for Busy”, is 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 ...