Meaning of Sinophonic | Babel Free

Definitions

Pertaining to Chinese languages and speakers of Chinese.

not-comparable

Examples

“This particular interpretation of the Shaw Brothers' “Chinese dream⟳” as strategic—both commercial and ideological—reinvention is why, in this chapter, I frame the Shaw Brothers' cinema as a Sinophonic rather than a diasporic production.”

“Overall, this article attempts to call⟳ for attention to the intellectual and practical importance of the study⟳ of Chinese politics in China's nation-building, identity search⟳, and modernity, and to stimulate the discussion of the state of this scholarship for the purpose of developing the study⟳ of Chinese politics in the Sinophonic world.”

“Fan-audiences' Sinophonic dissonance in real life was harmonized and smoothed over in this virtual enclave by the fans' unwavering love⟳ for their idol.”

“Taken as an integral cinematic experience⟳, what we are seeing is, in one way, a brief episode from the everyday life of a Singaporean family conversing in a hybridized Sinophonic tongue and, in another way, fictitious life stories being received visually and aurally by a Siniticate community of people who are being affected by the acts and speech-acts on screen.”

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