• "Cantonese Boy" is a song by English new wave band Japan, released in May 1982 as the fourth and final single from their 1981 album Tin Drum. The single...
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  • fascination for Eastern culture, which at times ("Visions of China", "Cantonese Boy") have a satirical undercurrent. "Ghosts" was Sylvian's most personal...
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  • Hong Kong Cantonese is a dialect of the Cantonese language (廣東話,粵語), which is in the Sino-Tibetan language family. Cantonese is lingua franca of populations...
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    The Cantonese people (廣府人; 广府人; gwong fu jan; Gwóngfú Yàhn) or Yue people (粵人; 粤人; jyut jan; Yuht Yàhn), are a Han Chinese subgroup originating from Guangzhou...
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  • Nye Remix) 1982 31 — — — — Assemblage "Ghosts" 5 — 19 — — Tin Drum "Cantonese Boy" 24 — 20 — — "I Second That Emotion" (Steve Nye Remix) 9 — 14 — — Assemblage...
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  • Gweilo (category Pages with Cantonese IPA)
    Gweilo or gwailou (Chinese: 鬼佬; Cantonese Yale: gwáilóu, pronounced [kʷɐ̌i lǒu] ) is a common Cantonese slang term for Westerners. In the absence of modifiers...
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    title "Cantonese Boy" which was a parody of the Grammy winning song American Boy by Kanye West and Estelle. After being seen performing "Cantonese Boy" in...
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  • Cantopop (redirect from Cantonese pop)
    Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") is a genre of pop music sung in Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of...
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  • Side two No. Title Writer(s) Length 5. "Cantonese Boy"   3:45 6. "Visions of China" Sylvian, Steve Jansen 3:34 7. "Ghosts"   6:23 8. "Voices Raised in...
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  • "Visions of China" (1981) "Ghosts" (1982) "Cantonese Boy" (1982)...
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  • (#32, 1981), "European Son (Remix)" (#31, 1981), "Ghosts" (#5, 1982), "Cantonese Boy" (#24, 1982), "I Second That Emotion (Remix)" (#9, 1982), "Life in Tokyo...
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  • as a 3-inch CD featuring the 7.06 minute album version coupled with "Cantonese Boy" from Tin Drum and "Methods of Dance" from Gentlemen Take Polaroids...
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    "Cantonese Boy" (1982) "I Second That Emotion" (1982) "Life in Tokyo" (1982)...
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    title "Cantonese Boy" which was a parody of the Grammy winning song American Boy by Kanye West and Estelle. After being seen performing "Cantonese Boy" in...
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  • Cantonese Internet Slang (Chinese: 廣東話網上俗語) is an informal language originating from Internet forums, chat rooms, and other social platforms. It is often...
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  • Proper Cantonese pronunciation (Chinese: 粵語正音運動; Jyutping: jyut6 jyu5 zing3 jam1 wan6 dung6) is a campaign in Hong Kong started from the 1980s and led...
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  • band's success with the Tin Drum album and singles such as "Ghosts" and "Cantonese Boy". This issue was a remixed version by Steve Nye and finally made "Life...
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  • is an incomplete list of notable people that are regarded as being of Cantonese origin: Liu Yan, king of Nanhai and first emperor of the Yue/Han kingdom...
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    Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Kwok-Cheung Chow (Chinese: 周國祥; Jyutping: zau1 gwok3 coeng4; born December 31, 1959) is a Hong Kong-born felon with ties to a San...
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    "Town Called Malice", "Precious", "Beat Surrender" Japan – "Ghosts", "Cantonese Boy" Jon & Vangelis – "I'll Find My Way Home" Junior – "Mama Used to Say"...
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    Taiwanese Mandopop vocal quartet boy band F4. Educated in Singapore (Boon Lay Secondary School), he speaks Mandarin, Cantonese and English. Chu was working...
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  • The Big Four is an all-male Hong Kong musical group formed by Dicky Cheung, Andy Hui, William So, and Edmond Leung in 2009. They released their first self-titled...
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  • sequel to The Kampung Boy (1979) and was a commercial and critical success. Narrated in English with a smattering of Malay, Cantonese and Tamil, the book...
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  • Sylvian 3:36 7. "Taking Islands in Africa" (Steve Nye remix) Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sylvian 4:51 8. "Swing"   6:18 9. "Cantonese Boy"   3:46 Total length: 43:16...
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  • childhood in Hong Kong. The term "gweilo" literally means "ghost man" in Cantonese, but has been applied as a racial epithet for Caucasians (as in white...
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    Rickshaw Boy or Camel Xiangzi (Chinese: 骆驼祥子; pinyin: Luòtuo Xiángzi; lit. 'Camel Auspicious Lad') is a novel by the Chinese author Lao She about the...
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  • captain's right-hand man Fflyn Edwards as Elliot, a.k.a. "the boy", a mysterious mute boy found under unusual circumstances, who becomes Maura's charge...
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    Fish Leong (category Malaysian people of Cantonese descent)
    last character of her Chinese name "茹" sounds the same as "魚" (fish) in Cantonese. She was discovered by Jonathan Lee, who later also became her godfather...
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    as Asian" in 2023. Historically, Chinatown was primarily populated by Cantonese speakers. However, in the 1980s and 1990s, large numbers of Fuzhounese-speaking...
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  • Hurrian Teshub and Hittite Tarhunna Im (Korean surname) Yan (surname) (Cantonese romanization: Im), a surname IM postcode area, for the Isle of Man Isle...
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