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No more Cantonese in Guangzhou

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  1. #1

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    No more Cantonese in Guangzhou

    http://www.businessinsider.com/china-is-forcing-its-biggest-cantonese-speaking-region-to-speak-mandarin-2014-8

    "reports in neighboring Hong Kong said the province's official broadcaster Guangdong TV was planning to quietly switch most of its programming from Cantonese to Mandarin on September 1."

    I wonder if this is simply pot stirring from HK in order to create a distraction.
    If not, and if Beijing really are forcing Guangzhou TV stations to switch to Mandarin it will certainly be interesting to see what happens next ...

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    They tried this a couple of years ago, and there were street demonstrations against it. I went up there to join in.

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