East China - Revision history

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80.176.90.165 at 20:10, 29 July 2010

2010-07-29T20:10:33Z

Globe-trotter: East (China) moved to East China: lose the brackets

2010-07-14T11:41:53Z

East (China) moved to East China: lose the brackets

Pashley: /* Talk */

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Pashley: /* Understand */

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ClausHansen: /* Regions */

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Pashley: /* Talk */ phrasebook link

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	Perhaps the commonest way to reach the area is to fly to [[Shanghai]]. There are two airports. Pudong is a major international airport with connections all over the world; Hong Qiao handles mainly domestic flights. Busses connect the two, taking about an hour. There are also direct busses from Pudong airport to major cities in the region; see city articles for details.		Perhaps the commonest way to reach the area is to fly to [[Shanghai]]. There are two airports. Pudong is a major international airport with connections all over the world; Hong Qiao handles mainly domestic flights. Busses connect the two, taking about an hour. There are also direct busses from Pudong airport to major cities in the region; see city articles for details.
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		+	Recently, subway line 2 (the main East-West line through downtown) has been extended; it now goes to both airports and to the new Hong Qiao train station right next to Hong Qiao airport, which has [[High-speed rail in China\|high-speed trains]] to many places in the region and beyond.

	Other cities in the region, such as [[Hangzhou]] and [[Nanjing]] also have international airports. Air Asia's [http://www.airasia.com]] flight from [[Kuala Lumpur]] to [[Hangzhou]] provides a low-cost route to or from [[Southeast Asia]].		Other cities in the region, such as [[Hangzhou]] and [[Nanjing]] also have international airports. Air Asia's [http://www.airasia.com]] flight from [[Kuala Lumpur]] to [[Hangzhou]] provides a low-cost route to or from [[Southeast Asia]].

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 As anywhere in China, [[Chinese phrasebook|Mandarin]] is the lingua franca; nearly everyone can speak it except some of the elderly. As elsewhere in China, English is not widespread but some people speak it quite well.
-The region does have its own language group, called [[Wu phrasebook|Wu]]. This is a populous region and the number of Wu native speakers is large; at 78 million it is rather more than French or Italian. There are local variants of Wu; the prestige dialect is that of [[Suzhou]] (an older city, capital of the Kingdom of Wu centuries back, and home to many scholars), not that of Shanghai. Dialects of Mandarin are spoken natively in northern Jiangsu, such as the area around [[Nanjing]].
+The region does have its own language group, called [[Wu phrasebook|Wu]]. This is a populous region and the number of Wu native speakers is large; at 78 million it is rather more than French or Italian. The language is also referred to as Shanghai dialect or Shanghainese, though that is not strictly accurate. There are local variants of Wu; the prestige dialect is that of [[Suzhou]] (an older city, capital of the Kingdom of Wu centuries back, and home to many scholars), ''not'' that of Shanghai. Wu is spoken over quite a broad area, including Shanghai, most of [[Zhejiang]], parts of [[Jiangsu]] and even a few places in [[Anhui]]. Dialects of Mandarin are spoken natively in northern Jiangsu, such as the area around [[Nanjing]].
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-Originally, [[Hangzhou]] and [[Nanjing]] were the great cities of this region; both have been the [[China#Dynasties_and_capitals|capital]] of China. [[Suzhou]] was another important city, famous for its gardens, canals and silk.
+Originally, [[Hangzhou]] and [[Nanjing]] were the great cities of this region; both have been the [[China#Dynasties_and_capitals|capital]] of China. [[Suzhou]] was another important city, famous for its gardens, canals and silk. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Wu at a time when China was divided.
 In the 19th century, after one of the Opium Wars, China was forced to open certain [[List_of_Chinese_provinces_and_regions#Treaty_ports_and_concessions|Treaty Ports]] to foreign trade. The two in this region were [[Ningbo]], which until then had been mainly the port for Hangzhou, and [[Shanghai]], until then an insignificant town strategically positioned near the mouth of the Yangtze. Both developed rapidly after that. By the early 20th century, Shanghai became one of the world's richest and wildest cities.

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-As anywhere in China, [[Chinese phrasebook|Mandarin]] is the lingua franca; nearly everyone can speak it. As elsewhere in China, English is not widespread but some people speak it quite well.
+As anywhere in China, [[Chinese phrasebook|Mandarin]] is the lingua franca; nearly everyone can speak it except some of the elderly. As elsewhere in China, English is not widespread but some people speak it quite well.
-The region does have its own language, called [[Wu phrasebook|Wu]] or Shanghainese. This is a populous region and the number of Wu native speakers is large; at 78 million it is rather more than French or Italian. There are local variants of Wu; the standard is that of [[Suzhou]] (an older city, capital of the Kingdom of Wu centuries back, and home to many scholars), not that of Shanghai.
+The region does have its own language group, called [[Wu phrasebook|Wu]]. This is a populous region and the number of Wu native speakers is large; at 78 million it is rather more than French or Italian. There are local variants of Wu; the prestige dialect is that of [[Suzhou]] (an older city, capital of the Kingdom of Wu centuries back, and home to many scholars), not that of Shanghai. Dialects of Mandarin are spoken natively in northern Jiangsu, such as the area around [[Nanjing]].
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 ==Regions==
-* [[Jiangsu]]
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-* [[Shanghai]]
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-* [[Zhejiang]]
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 *[[Suzhou]] (Jiangsu Province), old city of canals and gardens, now a major center for high tech. The Chinese have a saying that heaven has paradise but Earth has Hangzhou and Suzhou.
 *[[Wenzhou]] (Zhejiang Province)
 *[[Zhouzhuang]] (Jiangsu Province)