Sinophonic

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English

Etymology

From Sino- +‎ -phonic.

Adjective

Sinophonic (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to Chinese languages and speakers of Chinese.
    • 2013, Howard Chiang, Ari Larissa Heinrich, Queer Sinophone Cultures, →ISBN, page 86:
      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.
    • 2015, Wu Guoguang, Paradoxes Of China's Prosperity, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 2015, Ruby Cheung, New Hong Kong Cinema, →ISBN:
      Fan-audiences' Sinophonic dissonance in real life was harmonized and smoothed over in this virtual enclave by the fans' unwavering love for their idol.
    • 2015, Brian Bergen-Aurand, Mary Mazzilli, Hee Wai-Siam, Transnational Chinese Cinema, →ISBN:
      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.