Meaning of Cantophone | Babel Free

Definitions

Cantonese-speaking.

not-comparable, rare

Examples

“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.”

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

CEFR level