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cantophone
adj 1noun 1
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4ADJ.
compelling, southern
VERB + CANTOPHONE
study
CANTOPHONE + NOUN
cinema, itself, regions
PREP.
in, on
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adj
1
Cantonese-speaking.
The term “Guangzhou film” cannot operate independently outside Hong Kong and its colonial dimension. Tracking “Guangzhou film,” Kenny K. K. Ng presents a compelling study on Cantophone cinema as a site of cultural and linguistic struggle.
Lunpeng Ma's chapter entitled “Between Orality and Visuality: Translating ‘Radio Stories’ into Popular Cantonese Films” visits a cross-regional and cross-media phenomenon of a less-known genre, tiankong xiaoshuo 天空小說, popular in the Cantophone area in the 1940s and 1950s.
noun
1
A person who speaks Cantonese.
Akin to Shu-mei Shih's concept of the Sinophone, the Hong Kong Cantophone, too, defines itself in opposition to China's Mandarin culture by emphasizing linguistic difference rather than ethnic sameness, postcolonial hybridity rather than ethnonational solidarity.
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The term “Guangzhou film” cannot operate independently outside Hong Kong and its colonial dimension. Tracking “Guangzhou film,” Kenny K. K. Ng presents a compelling study on Cantophone cinema as a sit
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Lunpeng Ma's chapter entitled “Between Orality and Visuality: Translating ‘Radio Stories’ into Popular Cantonese Films” visits a cross-regional and cross-media phenomenon of a less-known genre, tianko
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Despite living in the southern Cantophone regions, it was the Hong Kong leftist cultural workers who took the position of the northern Han regime.
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Akin to Shu-mei Shih's concept of the Sinophone, the Hong Kong Cantophone, too, defines itself in opposition to China's Mandarin culture by emphasizing linguistic difference rather than ethnic samenes
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