Hit Chinese TV series rekindles sidelined Shanghainese dialect


A woman posing next to the posters of Chinese television series 'Blossoms Shanghai', in Shanghai. - AFP

SHANGHAI: A hit Chinese television series set in gritty but glamorous 1990s Shanghai has sparked a wave of nostalgia for the megacity's boom years, and reignited interest in its declining dialect.

The highly anticipated "Blossoms Shanghai" is famed Hong Kong film auteur Wong Kar-wai's small screen debut, chronicling its protagonist's rise from nobody to business tycoon during China's economic opening up.

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