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 ...

Poems, vocabularies, pinyin diagrams and schedules pinned on the wall are all in Chinese. In a classroom decorated with paper lanterns and fai chun — red paper with written blessings hung on doorways ...

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