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	Suzhou dialect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Suzhou dialect (蘇州話 / 苏州话; pinyin: sū zhōu huà) is a dialect of Wu, one of the subdivisions of Chinese spoken language.
		It is spoken in the city of Suzhou, in Jiangsu province of China.
		Suzhou dialect has a set of voiced initials and exhibits unvoiced unaspirated and aspirated stops, there are unvoiced and voiced fricatives sets.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Suzhou_dialect (253 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Jiangsu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Suzhou and Wuxi, two southern cities of Jiangsu in close proximity to neighbouring Shanghai Municipality, have since become particularly prosperous, being among the top 10 cities in China in gross domestic product and outstripping the provincial capital of Nanjing.
		In the eastern outskirts of Suzhou, Singapore has built the Suzhou Industrial Park, a flagship of China-Singapore cooperation and the only industrial park in China that is in its entirety the investment of one single foreign country.
		Dialects of Wu are spoken in the southernmost parts of Jiangsu, such as in Suzhou, Wuxi, and Changzhou.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Jiangsu (2753 words)

	Suzhou
		Suzhou, on the shore of Lake Taihu in southeastern Jiangsu Province, is a city of historical and cultural renown.
		Suzhou’s history goes back more than 2,500 years, to the time when King He Lu of Wu State founded the city as his capital in 514 B.C. In ancient times, Suzhou was a prosperous city and a favorite meeting place of traveling merchants.
		In a densely populated city like Suzhou, with few natural landscapes, the gardens are a creation of human beings and reflect people’s love of nature and their desire for beauty in their lives.
	www.sino-cs.ac.uk /html/Heritage/h_sz.htm (940 words)

	Suzhou: My Home Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Suzhou is fortunate in that it did not suffer greatly from the cataclysms of the 19th and 20th centuries: the Taiping Rebellion, Japanese occupation, and the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76.
		Suzhou natives speak one of the Northern Wu dialects.
		With its notably soft tones, the Suzhou dialect is said to characterize the image of city as one of feminine beauty, tenderness, serenity, subtlety, and elegance.
	dmsweb.badm.sc.edu /tongnet/suzhou.htm (514 words)

	Travel in Suzhou - China - Asia - Culture - WorldTravelGate.net®-
		Suzhou is known as the "Venice of the East," and a tour of the Grand Canal where the "streets" are lined with houses and stone bridges attests to that title.
		The gardens for which Suzhou is famous boast the exquisite reproduction in as small area of lofty mountains and affluent rivers, imperial palaces and country houses.
		Suzhou is like a picture rich in unique flavour, the mist upon the Lignin Hill and the reflection in water of the Bees Pagoda and the chiming of the giant to the ears.
	www.asiatravelling.net /china/suzhou/suzhou_culture.htm (586 words)

	Suzhou dialect -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Suzhou dialect (蘇州話 / 苏州话; (Click link for more info and facts about pinyin) pinyin: su zhou hua) is a dialect of (A dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta) Wu, one of the subdivisions of (Click link for more info and facts about Chinese spoken language) Chinese spoken language.
		It is spoken in the city of (Click link for more info and facts about Suzhou) Suzhou, in (Click link for more info and facts about Jiangsu) Jiangsu province of (A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world) China.
		It is typical of the Wu dialects, being rich in vowels and conservative in having many initials, and has many similarities with the (A dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta) Shanghai dialect.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/su/suzhou_dialect.htm (327 words)

	Encyclopedia: Hakka dialect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Guangdong Ministry of Education created an official romanisation of Meixian Hakka dialect in 1960, one of four languages receiving this status in Guangdong.
		However, there are dialects which have lost all its Ru Sheng tones, and the characters originally of this tone class are distributed across the non-Ru tones.
		Moreover, there is evidence of the retention of an earlier Hakka tone system in the dialects of HaiFeng 海豐 and LuFeng 陸豐 situated on coastal south eastern Guangdong province.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hakka-dialect (1119 words)

	Suzhou dialect - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Suzhou dialect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Suzhou dialect - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Suzhou dialect.
		Suzhou dialect (蘇州話 / 苏州话; pinyin: su zhou hua) is a dialect of Wu, one of the subdivisions of Chinese spoken language.
		Middle Chinese nasal endings -m have merged with rimes which end with -n in Suzhou.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Suzhou-dialect.html (279 words)

	Wu (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is spoken in most of Zhejiang province, the municipality of Shanghai, southern Jiangsu province, as well as smaller parts of Anhui, Jiangxi, and Fujian provinces.
		The Northern Wu dialects are not mutually intelligible with the Southern Wu dialects.
		Wu dialects are notable among Chinese languages in having kept voiced consonants, such as /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/, etc. Neither Mandarin nor Cantonese have voiced consonants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wu_dialect (610 words)

	Tan Wee Cheng's Mad, Mad World: Suzhou, haven of heritage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Suzhou, an ancient city in East China's Jiangsu Province, has again attracted world attention, having been chosen as the host city for the 28th session of the World Heritage Committee, which will be held from June 28 to July 7.
		With its grid structure of roads and waterways, ancient Suzhou used to be one of the largest cities in China.
		Suzhou people also developed their own style of exquisite embroidery, which is lauded as a "pearl of oriental art" for its beautiful designs, varied stitches, superb workmanship and elegant colours.
	twcnomad.blogspot.com /2004/06/suzhou-haven-of-heritage.html (1398 words)

	Suzhou Pingtan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Suzhou Pingtan is a general term denoting Suzhou Pinghua and Tanci, namely, storytelling and ballad singing in the Suzhou dialect.
		Suzhou Pingtan reached its peak in the reign of Emperor Qianlong (1739-1796) in the Qing Dynasty.
		Suzhou Pingtan is performed solo, in duet or as a trio, involving singing and storytelling.
	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_artqa/2003-09/24/content_40129.htm (439 words)

	The Beijing Center: Expeditions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Suzhou has a long history of being a desirable place to live.
		Indeed, Suzhou is known as the "Venice of the East".
		When peace once more reigned, the gardens were restored somewhat to their former glory for a retired official, of whom it is said that he'd had enough of bureaucracy and would like to become a fisherman in his retirement.
	www.thebeijingcenter.org /expeditions/excursions/grandcanal/gcdestinfo.htm (1640 words)

	Wu
		Wu (吳;) was a region in the south of Chang Jiang, surrounding Suzhou, in the Jiangsu province of China.
		The city of Suzhou (also called Wu) has traditionally been the capital of the Wu states.
		Wu is also a Chinese dialect spoken around the same region as the original Wu state.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/w/wu/wu.html (298 words)

	APMC2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		HISTORY: The ancient city of Suzhou was built in 514 B. and was famed as the “Heaven on Earth” of China many centuries ago.Throughout its history of more than 2,500 years, the pattern of the city proper has remained the same with paralleled rivers and streets and crisscrossed water lanes.
		CULTURE: The Wu culture represented by Suzhou is embod ied mainly in the local folk arts and handicrafts of Suzhou, which hold a rather high historical and cultural position.
		The Suzhou pintan (a folk art form of storytelling and ballad singing in Suzhou dialect) spread through Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai for more than 300 years.
	www.emfield.org /apmc2005/suzhou/suzhou.php (526 words)

	Chinese Culture
		Usually, Suzhou pingtan is performed by one, two or three people, each accompanying himself on an instrument, either a sanxian, a three-stringed fiddle, or the pipa.
		Considering that pingtan is performed in Suzhou dialect, which is hard for people from other places to understand, before each performance he makes a brief introduction to help the audience know more about the piece he is performing.
		Suzhou pingtan is regarded as the treasure of the city and is given the relevant financial support.
	en.chinabroadcast.cn /1857/2004-7-18/121@133303.htm (793 words)

	Suzhou
		Suzhou was the source of twenty-seven of the first rank of scholars during the Ching dynasty, making it a foremost centre of scholarship.(50) This city, along with Hangzhou, was a major focus for academic and popular publishing during the seventeenth century.
		Suzhou was one of the famous 'three weaving bureaux' south of the Yangtze River, and silk was produced for royal as well as noble usage.
		Suzhou remains one of China's 'green cities' (137) in that it is still largely able to feed itself from its adjacent territories, rather than relying solely on foods imported through long supply chains.
	www.international-relations.com /cm3-2/Suzhoupwb.html (9087 words)

	China Tourist Cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Suzhou Museum of Tablet Inscriptions is inside the ancient Suzhou Government School and Confucian Temple (being established by Fan Zhongyan in Northern Song Dynasty).
		Suzhou City is the ancient capital of Wu Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn Period.
		Suzhou Folk Custom Museum is a professional museum engaged in collecting and exhibiting the historical relics of the local folk custom with an emphasis on the display of the folk custom of the ancient city.
	www.asia-planet.net /china/suzhou1.htm (4956 words)

	Tour Suzhou (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The natural scenery of hills and waters in Suzhou is as charming as a delicate beauty.
		The poetic and picturesque Suzhou gardens are a typical demonstration of simple elegance,with intriguing scenes found in every season and in all weathers.
		The traditional performing arts of Suzhou are best represented by the Kunqu Opera, Suzhou Opera and Ballad singing,reputed both in China and overseas for their minute acting and harmonic melody.
	www.chinavista.com /suzhou/tour/tour.html (582 words)

	China & The World Cultual Exchange www.ZWWHJL.com.cn / www.ZWWHJL.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		At the mention of Suzhou, people usually think of bridges spanning flowing water, elegant classical gardens, rich Wu culture, soft silk, a unique dialect, and even poems of the Tang Dynasty.
		Records show that wealthy Suzhou families usually had their own book towers, and even poor families often had hundreds of books.
		With this distinguished background, the new Suzhou Library is helping to spread both the Wu culture and China's library development.
	www.zwwhjl.com.cn /news/e1.asp?articleid=199 (833 words)

	Suzhou Museum of Traditional Operas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Suzhou Museum of Traditional Operas, located in Suzhou of Jiangsu Province, is a special museum of Chinese local art history.
		An orchestra of painted sculptures playing the courtesy music is arrayed according to the traditional form in the Tower for Music Makers to show the grand occasion of welcoming the guest in those years.
		On the classical stage the Kunqu (a local opera in Suzhou area) opera, the Suqu opera (a local opera of Suzhou) and Pingtan (storytelling and ballad singing in Suzhou dialect) are irregularly staged in a traditional way.
	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_museum/2003-09/24/content_30114.htm (289 words)

	CLIKCHINA! China Guide - Spoken Chinese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Standard Mandarin is based on the Beijing dialect, which is the dialect of Mandarin as spoken in Beijing, and the governments intend for speakers of all Chinese speech varieties to use it as a common language of communication.
		There is much controversy around the terminology used to describe the subdivisions of Chinese: some people call Chinese a language and its subdivisions dialects, while others call Chinese a language family and its subdivisions languages.
		In the sense that the written language is based on Standard Mandarin and the dialects are mostly spoken but not written, the situation in China is a complex and interesting case of diglossia.
	clikchina.com /chinese_language/spoken_chinese.html (431 words)

	Session 6: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The great cities of the Jiangnan region in the seventeenth century: Suzhou, Yangzhou and Nanjing are described in travel writings, minor essays and gazetteers as well as in painting and belles lettres.
		The content of these songs in dialect, however, largely concerns the world of the pleasure quarters, as did two other works he had a hand in, the Beauties of Suzhou (Wuji baimei) and the Anatomy of Love (Qing shi lei lue) that celebrate the talented courtesans and flamboyant personalities of Suzhou.
		I consider the appearance of dialect literature and new forms of description of the city as a symptom of change in the cultural milieu of Suzhou in late Ming.
	www.aasianst.org /absts/1998abst/china/c6.htm (1105 words)

	Nanaplaza.Com: How many Thais speak a second Asian language ?
		Suzhou is 1000 km from Chaozhou, near Shanghai.
		The dialect of Suzhou is similar to the language of Shanghai (whereas the dialect of Chaozhou belongs to the southern Min-language, just like Hokkien - widespread in Singapore - and Taiwanese).
		Suzhou is famous for the most beautiful girls in China.
	board.nanaplaza.com /showflat.php?Cat=&Number=377737&Main=376000 (1749 words)

	Key Characteristics of Chinese Languages
		Peking dialect is considered the standard dialect of all Chinese in the People's Republic of China.
		Two additional tones (tonemes?) with some unusual qualities may be distinguished in some dialects: 10) "tense" high level (0-tone) and 11) "tense" high rising (*-tone).
		Each dialect can be further divided into two variants: New Xiang (northern urban variant) and Old Xiang (rural variant).
	www.cc.jyu.fi /~tojan/rlang/chi2.htm (1152 words)

	Yin & Yang and the I Ching
		What are usually called the "dialects" of Chinese are really separate languages, all descended from the Chinese of the T'ang Dynasty.
		In Pan's book, many dialects are shown for Min, Hakka, and Cantonese -- and the Hakka area itself is considerably larger than in older sources, where the two major dialects of Min were also sometimes considered separate languages.
		The Wu dialect of Shanghai is noteworthy because it retains the distinction between voiced and unvoiced, aspirated and unaspirated stops that existed in T'ang Chinese.
	www.friesian.com /yinyang.htm (4939 words)

	Chinese-forums.com - Chinese dialect map
		Just a guess: The dialect groups separating Fuzhou and Hainan might have been late comers from other parts of China.
		Most Chinese people can follow standard Chinese, if that is the local broadcasting language, and the dialect of their home town, and that's that.
		The south has many dialects because of historical(migration from the north) and geographical (mountain ranges) reasons.
	www.chinese-forums.com /printthread.php?t=1457 (479 words)

	EastSouthWestNorth: More Weekend Reading
		For the purpose of establishing a national language, the Beijing dialect was selected because it happened to be the dialect of the national capital.
		Han was not writing for people who don't understand the Suzhou dialect, and he was totally not interested in revolutionizing the regional literature or re-vitalizing a national literature.
		Use of dialects may even be strengthening in some areas with strong local identities, sometimes for economic reasons.
	www.zonaeuropa.com /20041208_1.htm (3026 words)

	ipedia.com: Wu (linguistics) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Wu spoken variations of the Chinese language are spoken in the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang ; and the municipality of Shanghai.
		It is likely a combination of many factors; in any case, descriptions of Wu (or its geographical predecessor) as being "soft and light" date from as far back as the Eastern Jin Dynasty, even though the Chinese dialects of that time must all have been markedly different from those of today.
		Wu dialects are notable among Chinese languages in having kept voicedd consonants, such as /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/, etc. (These may in fact be better described as voiceless consonants that create a voiced breathy element across the syllable: i.e.
	www.ipedia.com /wu__linguistics_.html (551 words)

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