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What is the Chinese Language?

Today, it is often presumed that there is one Chinese language- being what we in English call Mandarin-- and a number of Chinese dialects, among which include better-known ones such as Cantonese or Taiwanese. But where do these designations of language and dialect come from, and what effect does this have on Chinese collective identity today?

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