In Chinatown, Sound of the Future Is Mandarin – China News

www.nytimes.com — An NY Times article looking at the effect of Fujianese migrants on the linguistic makeup of America's Chinatowns, where Cantonese is rapidly being eclipsed by Mandarin.

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