Canton-Guangdong People's Mandarin Learning Reader

Author: Wang Lijia
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Publish Date: 1998-03-01
Features: The experience of this book may inadvertently reflect the promotion of Mandarin in Cantonese-speaking regions over the past decade. In Cantonese-speaking regions, particularly Hong Kong, the interest in learning Mandarin has gradually increased in recent years. During the transition period, Hong Kong was highly susceptible to various social influences, so there was a period when interest in Mandarin cooled. This also indicates that the demand for Mandarin at the time was not entirely driven by genuine feelings, and thus was not particularly urgent. Afterward, as the handover date approached, the Hong Kong people increasingly felt that mastering the national common language, Mandarin, was extremely necessary. Consequently, their patriotic learning enthusiasm has grown over time. Over the past decade, the work of promoting Mandarin in Guangdong has also gradually recovered and developed. This is mainly because the gradual formation of a national market has provided opportunities for the people of Guangdong to achieve further development, and Mandarin has naturally become one of the important tools to seize this opportunity.