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China: No More Cantonese Mother Tongue on Guangdong TV News

Categories: East Asia, China, Language

Despite the strong public sentiment against the language policy that marginalizes the Cantonese mother tongue in Guangdong province, Guangdong TV quietly replaced Cantonese news broadcast with Putonghua. How do people from Guangdong react to the change? See Charles Liu's translation [1] from Nanfang.com.