I am Chinese American, but I was raised speaking a language that is unintelligible even to most Mandarin speakers: Shanghainese. As a kid, I learned the nuances of the dialect, from native ...

Japanese cartoon characters are now playing their part in preserving the Shanghai dialect and making the language more popular than ever among the young and hip of Shanghai. For more than four years ...

A hit Chinese television series set in gritty but glamorous 1990s Shanghai has sparked a wave of nostalgia for the megacity's boom years, and reignited interest in its declining dialect. The highly ...

Almost two years before Wong Kar-wai’s period drama “Blossoms” brought Shanghainese back into the public spotlight, 23-year-old Hu Shiyang began writing her debut novel in the same dialect. Titled ...

According to Unesco, there are 137 endangered languages in China. While not endangered, the number of Shanghainese speakers is in decline. Eda Tang speaks to some of them for New Zealand Chinese ...

He had his first taste of being an outsider at a kindergarten enrollment interview. Three-year-old Ivan Yu chatted with family members in Shanghainese, but could not understand his teacher's questions ...

The highly anticipated "Blossoms Shanghai" is famed Hong Kong film auteur Wong Kar-wai's small screen debut, chronicling its protagonist's rise from nobody to business tycoon during China's economic ...