Comments on: Voice of China on the move

By: ALEXANDRA GREY

ALEXANDRA GREY — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 17:11:00 +0000

Readers of this post may like this new article by Jim Leibold: James Leibold (2015) Performing ethnocultural identity on the Sinophone Internet: testing the limits of minzu, Asian Ethnicity, 16:3, 274-293, DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2015.1015252. I found it fascinating, rigorous and well-written.

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By: Ingrid Piller

Ingrid Piller — Wed, 27 May 2015 05:09:12 +0000

In reply to Paul Desailly.

Even further away in Sydney than in Guangzhou … but, as Alex shows, ‘the Emperor’s’ influence is felt even here 😉

By: Paul Desailly

Paul Desailly — Wed, 27 May 2015 04:27:49 +0000

Mumma mia, y’all missed my Cantopop and Cantorock repertoire!
Maybe it’s best I stayed in Adelaide’s China Town given my voice and Van Gogh’s ear for music; to say nothing of my tin ear or the seven tones in Cantonese and four in Mandarin..

Guangdong, whose capital is ginormous Guangzhou (formerly Canton) is China’s wealthiest province and one of its most populous. Perhaps the most famous saying there, at its core, references the mutually incomprehensible lingo divide (when spoken) between the northerners and the southerners: “The mountains are high and the Emperor is far away.”