Cantophone

1. not comparablerareCantonese-speaking.

   Despite living in the southern Cantophone regions, it was the Hong Kong leftist cultural workers who took the position of the northern Han regime.

   2024 August 19, David Melbye, Global Cinema Studies in Landscape Allegory, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 87

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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 site of cultural and linguistic struggle.

   2018 February 14, Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China: Kaleidoscopic Histories, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 9

   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.

   2019 February 25, Yifeng Sun, Chris Song, Translating Chinese Art and Modern Literature, Routledge, →ISBN, page 4

plural Cantophones

1. rareA 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.

   2023 December 18, Belinda Kong, SARS Stories: Affect and Archive of the 2003 Pandemic, Duke University Press, →ISBN