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A speaker from Tanghe (Central Plains Mandarin). Mandarin (/ ˈ m æ n d ər ɪ n / ⓘ MAN-dər-in; simplified Chinese: 官话; traditional Chinese: 官話; pinyin: Guānhuà; lit. 'officials' speech') is a group of Chinese language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.
The English translation of Bai Xian-yong's novel about male homosexuals in Taiwan includes the term "crystal boys," derived from the same passage in the earlier novel, and also a rather gruff reference to the old photographer who befriends some of the boys as "you old glass," which, delivered by a female friend of his, comes out sounding about ...
TVBS Media Inc. (Chinese: 聯利媒體股份有限公司; pinyin: Lián Lì Méi Tǐ Gǔ Fèn Yǒu Xiàn Gōng Sī; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Liân-lī Mûi-thé Kó͘-hūn Iú-hān Kong-si), formerly Liann Yee Production Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 聯意製作股份有限公司; pinyin: Lián Yì Zhì Zuò Gǔ Fèn Yǒu Xiàn Gōng Sī; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Liân-ì Chè-chok Kó͘-hūn Iú-hān Kong-si), is a ...
A Mandarin Chinese and Miao mixed language Maojia: 猫家话: 貓家話: A Qo-Xiong Miao and Chinese dialects mixed language Shaozhou Tuhua: 韶州土话: 韶州土話: A group of distinctive Chinese dialects in South China, including Yuebei Tuhua and Xiangnan Tuhua. It incorporates several Chinese dialects, as well as Yao languages. Tangwang ...
Taiwan News (formerly China News [2]) is an English-language online newspaper and former print newspaper in the Republic of China (Taiwan). It was purchased by I-Mei Foods in the 1997, who eventually transitioned the publication to a fully online venture.
Similarly, there is a large poetry community in Taiwan, and there have been several anthologies of Taiwanese poetry in English translation. The New Century New Generation Poetry Selection [ zh ] , edited by Taiwanese poets Xiang Yang (Poet) [ zh ] , targets the millennials poets (born between 1980 and 1999, active from 2000 to 2022) who created ...
American linguist Benjamin Zimmer has traced mentions in English of the Chinese term for "crisis" as far as an anonymous editorial in a 1938 journal for missionaries in China. [ 5 ] [ 2 ] The American public intellectual Lewis Mumford contributed to the spread of this idea in 1944 when he wrote: "The Chinese symbol for crisis is composed of two ...
Bāng Chhun-hong is a Taiwanese Hokkien song composed by Teng Yu-hsien, a Hakka Taiwanese musician, and written by Lee Lin-chiu. [1] The song was one of their representative works.