What is the “duality of divergence and accord” in the field of language in China?
What will be an ideal response?
• "Younger Han people in China today mostly speak the national language, Mandarin Chinese, and also a regional variety of Chinese particular to the locality where they were brought up.
• These regional dialects are often mutually unintelligible . . . [W]riting across the Chinese world as long been unified around a single system of characters . . .There are also the native languages of many minority groups," e.g., Uyghur or Mongol
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