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Chiang Kai-shek was from Jiejiang. Mao Zedong was from Hunan. So why was Beijing dialect (mandarin) kept as official dialect of Chinese for both PRC and ROC (Taiwan)?

by /u/ParallelPain in /r/AskHistorians

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