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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Enping, Kaiping, Sanshui, Shunde, Taishan, Xingning, Taishanese, Guangzhou-Zhuhai Intercity Mass Rapid Transit, Taishanese people in Hong Kong, Midea, Greater Taishan Region, Heshan, Guangdong, Xinhui District, Kaiping Diaolou, Xiaolan, Dachong, Xiqi village, Sanshui District, Shangchuan Island, Ronggui, Baisha, Guangdong, Hisense Kelon, Guzhen Town, Pu ning, Shunde, China Furniture Wholesale Market, Shunde District, Gaoyao, Gaoming District, Xingning, Guangdong, Lufeng, Shanwei, Country Garden, Taicheng, Bei Hou, Xiachuan Island, Puning, Sihui, Guangdong, Shunde College Station, Bijiang Station, Beijiao Station, Ronggui Station, Fengjian Village, Nibei, Shunde Station, Shuibu, Shunde Port, Lecong, Rongqi Port, Leizhou, Jun'an, Shunde, Daliang, Shunde, Longjiang, Chencun, Xingning Academy, Lunjiao, Shenguang Mountain, Leliu, Guanghai, Haiyan, Taishan, Xingtan, Sanba, Guangdong, Sanhe, Taishan. Excerpt: Taishanese (simplified Chinese: traditional Chinese: Taishanese: ) is a dialect of Yue Chinese. The dialect is closely related to Cantonese. Taishanese is spoken in the southern part of Guangdong Province in China, particularly in and around the city-level county of Taishan. In the mid to late 19th century, a significant number of Chinese emigrating to North America originated from this area, making Taishanese a dominant variety of the Chinese language spoken in North American Chinatowns. It was formerly the lingua franca of the overseas Chinese residing in the United States. It is not currently recognized as having official status in any country. The earliest linguistic studies refer to the dialect of Llin-nen or Xinning (Chinese: ). Xinning was renamed Taishan in 1914, and linguistic literature has since generally referred to the local dialect as the Taishan dialect, a term based on the Mandarin pronunciation. A...