Devon Maloney. Saturday 30 April 2016 10.53 EDT Last modified on Monday 6 February 2017 09.24 EST. Margaret Atwoodâs feminist dystopian classic The Handmaidâs Tale is on its way to a series adaptation â Hulu in charge, Atwood consulting, and Elisabeth Moss starring as the titular handmaid Offred.
Mandarin is by far the largest of the seven or ten Chinese dialect groups, with 70 per cent of Chinese speakers and a huge area stretching from Yunnan in the southwest to Xinjiang in the northwest and Heilongjiang in the northeast.
In Mainland China, Mandarin is called âputonghuaâ, meaning âcommon languageâ. The Cantonese dialect is popular in Canton (Guangdong) province of China, Hong Kong and with overseas Chinese in cities such as San Francisco and New York. The Chinese population in these areas is approximately 10 million.