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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