China Dispelling the monolith: The geopolitics of language in Taiwan and Hong Kong February 12, 2020 0 Image credit: Speak Mandarin! by J B/ flickr; licence CC BY 2.0. Written by Justin Kwan. In recent years, the respective Sunflower and Umbrella Movements…
China Transmission of Cantonese opera in Hong Kong: Issues and Challenges July 26, 2017 0 Written by Bo-Wah Leung. There are more than 350 kinds of Chinese opera, of which Peking opera is the most famous internationally. It has been…
Politics Singing the Umbrella Movement: Pop, Politics, and Protest June 29, 2017 0 Written by Ivy Man. The Umbrella Movement, also known as the Umbrella Revolution, was a 79-day pro-democracy street occupation protest in Hong Kong. In the…
China Linguistic Challenges to China’s Centralizing Control June 16, 2015 0 Written by Susan D. Blum. Challenges to authoritarian states’ control of language can be so complex that they exceed the states’ ability to manage them…
Culture and Society Searching Guangzhou: Regionalising Weibo November 15, 2013 2 Written by Wilfred Yang Wang. "Known to many in the West as ‘Canton’, Guangzhou is the first city most travellers to mainland China visit. Wrapped…
