Category Archives: non-Mandarin Chinese

Wu — sounds from way outside Beijing

On living vicariously through a new blog by Kellen Parker

What is Chinese? You know it’s not just Mandarin, of course, maybe because you’ve read John DeFrancis, or maybe because your one-time Minnesota neighbor, a spry Hong Kongese gentleman of 139 who spent 13 hours a day caring for his voluptuous jade carpet of a lawn, [...]