tianjinese

Of, from or relating to Tianjin.

The friendly Guo Bu Li is known for its Tianjinese steamed dumplings.

Data utilized in this analysis are a 1989 random sample survey conducted in the United States, in the Albany-Schenectady-Troy metropolitan area of New York, and a 1993 random sample survey conducted in two major Chinese cities, Tianjin and Shanghai. In the following text, when we refer to the American and Chinese results, we should more precisely talk about the “Albany family” or the “Shanghainese or Tianjinese family.” However, we have conducted several parallel studies with national and multicity surveys in the two countries (Logan & Bian, 1999; Spitze, Logan, & Robinson, 1992), and found very similar results.

A native or inhabitant of Tianjin.

Several months went by before I received any news from the Troupe. Apparently, Lin was angrier than anyone had anticipated: she was not about to allow her disciple to be the first Tianjinese to have a foreign disciple without putting up some resistance. […] I hasten to add that I did not delude myself into thinking that I was a disciple on a par with a native-born female performer. Yet, at the same time, an individual’s identity as a Tianjinese or as a narrative performer also does not automatically guarantee entrance into Zhang’s artistic network.

Breakfast stops are similar to small cafes in the United States. It has been traditional for Tianjinese to go to these stops for breakfast on weekends.

The Mandarin dialect spoken in Tianjin.

Xiang Sheng is a comedic form with three major types, involving one, two, or three or more usually male performers. Its vehicle of delivery is the spoken vernacular Mandarin dialect, although various regional XS pieces are performed by local artists in such dialects as Tianjinese and Shandongese.

A future paper will contain some of these data in the form of a Tianjinese dictionary, at which time the contributions of several families of speakers will be individually recognized. The sources for data on Tianjinese cited herein and in several earlier papers by me on Tianjinese listed in the bibliography are the following natives of Tianjin: Wang Jianyun and her family, Ni Mingliang, and Professors Li Shiyu and Pang Binjun.