What exactly does “The Chinese language” mean? Does it mean Mandarin, or are other langs like Cantonese, Hakka, and Teochew included?

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“I’m also not familiar with any sentiment that assuming Chinese means putonghua is a problem.” I’ve come across Westerners who do make this claim, as well as some people from HK.

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