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., Uighur or Mongol
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A. signs B. shots C. auteurs D. audiences
__________ combined Neoclassicism with realism in his many sculpted portraits of the heroes of the Enlightenment
A. Boucher B. Houdon C. Reynolds D. Kauffmann
Correggio’s painting Danae seems to glow because the artist used __________: layers of pigment suspended in a transparent medium.
A. glazes
B. entasis
C. luminosity
D. mixed media
The Bay Song Book contains no music but rather texts. This is because the congregations for whom it was intended?
a) improvised individualized song during each church meeting b) already knew these tunes by heart c) were forbidden to sing music in church d) were taught through an oral tradition