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	Shanghai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Shanghainese people have been stereotyped by other Chinese (both urban and rural) as being pretentious, arrogant, and xenophobic; and at the same time admired for their meticulous attention to detail, faithfulness in contract, and professionalism.
		Nearly all registered Shanghainese residents are descendents of immigrants from the two small adjacent provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, regions that generally speak the same family of dialects as the Shanghainese, that is Wu Chinese.
		One uniquely Shanghainese cultural element is the Shikumen residencies (longtang), which are characteristic two or three-storey fl/gray brick structures cut across with a few decorative dark red stripes.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/s/sh/shanghai.html (2796 words)

	Shanghainese -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Wu has 87 million speakers as of 1991, and is the second most spoken form of Chinese after (Shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia) Mandarin (which has some 800 million speakers).
		Shanghainese is the representative dialect of Northern Wu; it contains vocabulary and expressions from the entire Northern Wu area (southern (Click link for more info and facts about Jiangsu) Jiangsu, northern (Click link for more info and facts about Zhejiang) Zhejiang).
		Shanghainese is rich in consonants and pure vowels.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/shanghainese.htm (1038 words)

	Shanghai : In Depth : Ways & Manners \| Frommers.com
		Shanghainese is a sub-category of the Wú dialect, one of six major Chinese dialects not including Mandarin, but each dialect is so different from the others as to be considered by some experts as to be different languages entirely.
		The Shanghainese's biggest detractors are its main competitors to the north and south, the Beijingners and the Cantonese respectively, but the Shanghainese are regarded by almost all Chinese as superficial, arrogant, greedy, rude, ruthless, cunning, opportunistic, and unpatriotic.
		Shanghainese are considered to be all bluster and no fight, as evident in the oft-cited examples of street arguments that may shatter the eardrums but never degenerate into fisticuffs.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/shanghai/0717020272.html (2064 words)

	Shanghai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Shanghai (Chinese: 上海; pinyin: Shànghǎi; Shanghainese IPA: /zɑ̃ hɛ/), situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta, is China's largest city.
		The vernacular language is Shanghainese, a dialect of Wu Chinese; while the official language is Standard Mandarin.
		Much of the Shanghainese culture (Shanghainese Pops) were transferred to Hong Kong by the millions of Shanghainese emigrants and refugees after the Communist Revolution.
	www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Shanghai (3567 words)

	Tour Shanghai - People and Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Shanghainese is near impossible to distinguish from Manadarin, but it is still considered to be an inseparable part of the culture of Shanghai.
		The majority of Shanghainese under the age of 50 are able to speak fluent Mandarin, and those under the age of 25 have also had contact with the English language since their early years.
		Shanghainese people have been stereotyped by other Chinese and are now seen as being pretentious, arrogant, and xenophobic (afraid of that which is foreign).
	www.tourshanghai.net /about_shanghai/articles/people_and_culture.html (974 words)

	Shanghainese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shanghainese (上海话; pinyin: Shànghǎihuà, lumazi: Zanheireiwo, Shanghainese in IPA: [zɑ̃ ɦɛ ɛ̤ wo]), sometimes referred to as the Shanghai dialect, is a dialect of Wu Chinese spoken in the city of Shanghai.
		Shanghainese is the representative dialect of Northern Wu; it contains vocabulary and expressions from the entire Northern Wu area (southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang).
		In 2004, a Tom and Jerry program dubbed with Shanghainese was blocked from broadcasting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shanghai_dialect (1192 words)

	Shanghainese Phonology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Shanghainese conversational accent system is most similar to that found in the African languages and Japanese, and will be discussed in the 3.
		Shanghainese also has an alveolar lateral flap [ Éº ] during normal conversation (the Éº is pronounced with the tongue flapping the roof of the mouth for a brief moment).
		Front high-mid/low-mid contrast in Shanghainese are not made in Mandarin and there is the presence of two rounded mid vowels in Shanghainese that sound foreign to a Mandarin speaker, but are found in European languages.
	www.zanhe.com /intro/sound.html (2012 words)

	Herbert Wang
		While Shanghainese takes a backseat to Mandarin, the official spoken language of China, its importance is not to be underestimated at all.
		Shanghainese is spoken by almost everyone in the city of Shanghai, arguably the most important city in China asides from the country's capital, Beijing.
		Shanghainese love their local language not only because it can describe Shanghainese custom and tradition, but it can also make two strangers feel familiar and amiable especially at foreign lands.
	www.unc.edu /~noblitt/fall2004/herbertw.htm (1025 words)

	Shanghainese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Shanghainese is part of the Wu dialect family, one of the five dialect groups into which Chinese can be divided (the others are northern Chinese including Mandarin, Cantonese, the Fujian dialects and Hakka / Kejia).
		One Shanghainese lady, someone highly (overly?) educated outside of her home town, told me recently that it was impossible to hold a conversation in Shanghainese on a weighty subject - the meaning of life, the future of the Internet, the derivation of the name Haagen- Dazs, things like that.
		The Shanghainese of today is different in some respects from that spoken by Shanghainese émigrés living in Hong Kong, for instance.
	www.earnshaw.com /past_version/earnshaw9602/sanghe.htm (2305 words)

	Graham on Shanghainese
		There were a couple of novels written in Shanghainese around the turn of the 19th-20th centuries but the experiment was not viewed as successful, and they have sunk without trace with no follow-up.
		Which is not surprising considering the overall opinion of Shanghainese people towards their own language (a wise man once said, by the way, that the difference between and a language and a dialect is that a language has an army and a navhy).
		One Shanghainese lady, someone highly (overly?) educated outside her place of birth, told me recently that it was impossible to hold a conversation in Shanghainese on a weighty subject - the meaning of life, the future of the Internet, the derivation of the name Haagen-Dazs, things like that.
	www.earnshaw.com /shanghainese/content.cfm?id=28 (2432 words)

	AsiaFinest Discussion Forum -> Sites Specifically Promoting Shanghainess (Wu)
		Shanghainese 上海話 is a dialect of Wu Chinese 吳語 or 吳方言;, which has 77 million native speakers, making it the second largest Chinese language (hereafter termed regionalect) after Mandarin Chinese (Cantonese ranks as third with 71 million worldwide).
		Shanghainese is the distinct style of Wu Chinese spoken in the city of Shanghai; it is an integration of the various forms of Wu, as millions of people throughout the Wu-speaking region of China settled in Shanghai during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
		Shanghainese is banned in schools, and the local media is discouraged to use Shanghainese.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=16295 (1098 words)

	Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong News and Business.
		Smart Shanghainese chic, MTV-style, shopping till they drop in the mall row of Huaihai Road, week in and out, look as though they could be in Los Angeles, London, Bangkok or Sao Paulo.
		Anonymous Shanghainese confirm that the confluence between local government and wealthy real estate developers, local or from the Chinese diaspora, usually holds no respect for property rights, no proper compensation for them and no negotiation or due process.
		Shanghainese businessmen insist - or rather pray to Confucius - that the city's economy will not follow the lead of its slumbering stock market.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China/GA14Ad04.html (2447 words)

	phorum - Chinese Culture Forum at Asiawind - Re: What does it mean when Shanghainese say... ? (2)
		The tones in Shanghainese have pretty much disappeared (replaced with long and short registers); syllables have all become much softer; and the final stops are now less abrupt.
		The Shanghainese word for magazine, (i transcribed as zattsu), would be impossible to transcribe using pinyin.
		Also tones are not important in Shanghainese (most Shanghainese only use two pitch variations to speak as opposed to 4-5 in Mandarin).
	www.asiawind.com /forums/read.php?f=2&i=2610&t=2464 (580 words)

	Learn Shanghainese
		Though my Shanghainese colleagues speak the dialect amongst themselves, they always use Mandarin or English to communicate with me. Sometimes, you can't help but feel a little out of place as the Shanghainese talk in their native tongue and you can't contribute to the conversation.
		The reason there's no Shanghainese program in Shanghai is all political (Beijing), and is part of a campaign since the 1970's to eradicate the dialect through silence, and the denial of Shanghainese education.
		Many youths today think Shanghainese cannot be written using Chinese characters (because "it is so different from Mandarin pronunciation"; most have ridiculously been made to believe that Shanghainese is an uncultured, bastardized, and unorthodox dialect of holy Mandarin).
	home.wangjianshuo.com /archives/20040411_learn_shanghainese.htm (1599 words)

	Micah Sittig - Archive for November 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In Shanghainese because the term is often learned before writing, it registers as ONE WORD to native Shanghainese speakers, the second character has no independent meaning in Shanghainese.
		Shanghainese is much harder because it has more tone sandhi, there is more tendency in Shanghainese for words rather than characters to register as single units.
		To summarize, Shanghainese functions in an aural way with little thought to the individual characters (more like Western languages), while Mandarin is more literary and tends to revolve around characters and their compounds.
	www.ugcs.caltech.edu /~takoyaki/archive/200411.html (862 words)

	Shanghainese language and pronunciation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Shanghainese is a dialect of Wu spoken by about 15 million people in Shanghai.
		What the early Shanghainese proponents for a common Chinese language did not anticipate was that Standard Mandarin's promotion would be handled through the simultaneous oppression of all other Chinese regionalects, and most harshly on Wu and Shanghainese.
		Cantonese, Dungan, Gan, Hakka, Mandarin, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, Teochew, Xiang
	www.omniglot.com /writing/shanghainese.htm (259 words)

	Encyclopedia: Shanghainese
		Lumazi is a recent development at Shanghainese and Wu romanization.
		Shanghai (Chinese: ä¸Šæµ·; pinyin: ; Shanghainese IPA:), situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta, is Chinas largest city.
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	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Shanghainese (1732 words)

	Mandarin or Shanghaiese?
		Shanghainese is by itself as part of the Wu Chinese subset.
		Shanghainese doesn't have the Mandarin pinyin -an sound, so there is no problem using san to indicate Sa+N sound (like isan for doctor).
		One Shanghainese Rusheng vowel is very similar to the "i" in English words: itch, ship, or disk (disk has a voiced consonant, which in Shanghainese makes it technically considered another tone, making 3 inherent tones total).
	home.wangjianshuo.com /archives/20031003_mandarin_or_shanghaiese.htm (3373 words)

	HONG KONG: Hong Kong Cuisines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The enervatingly-hot summers encouraged the development of cooling soya bean dishes, while food preservation was essential, explaining Shanghainese restaurants' specialities of preserved vegetables, fish, shrimps and mushrooms.
		A Shanghainese menu is virtually a geography lesson, for almost every eastern speciality originates from a particular city.
		Whereas Shanghainese restaurants are generally informal, purist Peking eating places tend to fit the stereotype of the Westerner's idea of a "Chinese" restaurant: red brocade, tasseled lanterns and a more formal, more "imperial" style.
	www.angelfire.com /pa/sifuphil/hkcuisine.html (2036 words)

	Chinese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Often there is not even any awareness among laypeople that these various "dialects" are then categorized into "languages" based on mutual intelligibility, though in areas of greater linguistic diversity (such as the southeast) people do think of dialects as being grouped into categories like Wu or Hakka.
		One exception from this is Shanghainese which has reduced the set of tones to a two-toned pitch accent system much like modern Japanese.
		Shanghainese (a Wu Chinese dialect): a project to introduce and promote the Shanghai dialect.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_language (7061 words)

	SHANGHAI FACTS AND INFORMATION
		The vernacular language is Shanghainese, a dialect of Wu Chinese; while the official language is Standard_Mandarin.
		Other Shanghainese cultural artifacts include the cheongsam, a modernization of the traditional Chinese/Manchurian qipao garment which first appeared in the 1910s in Shanghai.
		The novel set a precedent for all Chinese literature and was highly popular until the standardization of vernacular Standard_Mandarin as the national language in the early 1920s.
	www.palfacts.com /Shanghai (3620 words)

	Asiaweek.com
		The Shanghainese may be proud, perhaps even arrogant, but historically they have not shunned foreigners, unlike their Beijing counterparts.
		The label Paris of the East was not merely a European conceit; the Shanghainese relished the role.
		In their minds, the Shanghainese have always been suspect, too ready to leap on the first bandwagon that rolls through town, too flimsy culturally, too concerned with money and flaunting it.
	www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/97/0502/cs1.html (757 words)

	Dining, Hongkong, Regent Tour China
		Shanghainese Cuisine: The three East China Sea provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian, together with their two adjacent inland provinces, make up what is called the Eastern School of Chinese cuisine.
		A Shanghainese menu is a virtual geography lesson, for almost every eastern specialty originates in a particular city.
		Beijing Cuisine: Whereas Shanghainese restaurants are generally informal, purist Beijing eating places tend to fit the stereotype of a Westerner's idea of a Chinese restaurant: red brocade, tasseled lanterns, and a more formal or imperial style.
	www.regenttour.com /chinaplanner/hkg/hk-food-dining.htm (652 words)

	Resident Content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Even by marrying to a Shanghainese, a non-Shanghainese can still not permanently reside in Shanghai with the "House Registration".
		This was why it hardly heard a Shanghainese married to a non-Shanghainese.
		A non-Shanghainese college student who graduated from a university in Shanghai has a very little chance to be hired by a company in Shanghai due to the population control policy.
	www.megaone.com /071484010598/Resident.htm (301 words)

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