to the most popular genre in Chinese language contemporary music. "Mando" refers to the Mandarin Chinese language. Equally as popular is "Cantopop", "Canto" refers the Cantonese Chinese language which is a Chinese dialect spoken in the southern provinces and Hong Kong. A third term "Gang-Tai pop" 港台 is yet another term referring to the combination of Cantopop and Mandopop. "Gang" refers to the Chinese pronunciation of Hong Kong - "xiang gang" 香港 and Tai refers to Taiwan 台彎. In Hong Kong itself
In the Mood for Love according to me in a classic romantic movie which captures the emotion of love very beautifully. The story is about the doomed romance between two neighbors Mr.Chow and Mrs.Chan , whose spouses are having an illicit affair. While their spouses are away "on business"/"taking care of a sick mother" the neighbors go out for dinners and hang out together on lonely nights. While trying to not be like their spouces they end up falling in love with each eather although resisting
Introduction From the 80s in the last Century, there has been some movements promoting “proper Cantonese pronunciation,” or PCP in short, backed by various scholars and media. The idea of “proper pronunciation” comes from pronunciations that are commonly heard in daily usage which are deemed as either wrong or unclear by archaic standards. The wrong pronunciations often refers to mispronunciation such as pronouncing 爍 (soek3) as 礫 (lik1), which largely associates with characters with similar structure
Lust, Caution is a 2007 erotic espionage thriller film directed by Ang Lee, based on the novella of the same name by Chinese author Eileen Chang. The cast includes Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Wei Tang and Joan Chen. The story is mostly set in Hong Kong in 1938 and in Shanghai in 1942. With this film, Lee won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival for the second time, the first being with Brokeback Mountain. Tony Leung and Ang Lee are my favorite Asian actor and director. I watched almost all
The award winning film, Chungking Express, is a tale of two stories told in sequence, each about a lovesick Hong Kong policeman contemplating his relationship with a woman. The movie is filmed in impressionistic splashes of motion and color, which are used to help the audience get a better sense of the time period. In particular, the mise-en-scene, especially the setting, stands out in separating the different stages of relationships that the two policemen find themselves in, but due to the setting
The modernization of China has played a key role in the changes of popular culture in China. With modernization, the people of China were introduced to different forms and styles of music which the Chinese studied and incorporated into their own music. They felt that the 'Westernization of their music' would make it more modern. With the rise of popular music came a means of identification, and with that, regulations to control its effect on society as a whole. And finally, the blurring of boundaries
Integrated Marketing Communications INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS (IMC) Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) .The concept under which a company carefully integrates coordinates its many communications channels to deliver a clear, consistent, and compelling message about the organization and its products. IMC starts with the identification of consumer needs. IMC builds a strong brand identity in the market-place by tying together and reinforcing all your images and messages. IMC