In the LA area, Mandarin has become more dominant in recent decades with the arrival of immigrants from Taiwan and China. Photo: AP
Laura Ng had a dual motive for taking Cantonese classes at Stanford.
As a Ph.D. student in anthropology, she was researching the history of the Inland Empire Chinatowns.
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