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China's regional language differences mainly concern pronunciation. They are far less noticeable in text that is written in ideographs. In the early twentieth century, language reformers led by Hu Shih developed a writing system called ''báihuà''. This system is based on language usage in the vernacular novel ''Dream of the Red Chamber'' (1791). The novel is written in the Beijing dialect. In the 1920s, ''báihuà'' displaced Classical Chinese as the China's standard writing system.
China's regional language differences mainly concern pronunciation. They are far less noticeable in text that is written in ideographs. In the early twentieth century, language reformers led by Hu Shih developed a writing system called ''báihuà''. This system is based on language usage in the vernacular novel ''Dream of the Red Chamber'' (1791). The novel is written in the Beijing dialect. In the 1920s, ''báihuà'' displaced Classical Chinese as the China's standard writing system.
In the twentieth century, both the [[Kuomintang | Nationalists]] and the Communists promoted the use of Mandarin. This policy has been resisted occasionally by speakers of other dialects. The popularity of Hong Kong-based pop culture has allowed the Cantonese-speaking South to resist the advance of Mandarin.
In the twentieth century, both the [[Kuomintang|Nationalists]] and the Communists promoted the use of Mandarin. This policy has been resisted occasionally by speakers of other dialects. The popularity of Hong Kong-based pop culture has allowed the Cantonese-speaking South to resist the advance of Mandarin.
==References==
==References==
*Coblin, W. South, "A brief history of Mandarin", ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'', vol. 120, issue 4, pp. 537–552.
*Coblin, W. South, "A brief history of Mandarin", ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'', vol. 120, issue 4, pp. 537–552.
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