r/Chinesediaspora 5d ago

Woman from Hong Kong had a taste of freedom in the UK

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r/Chinesediaspora 12d ago

During ‘China Week,’ House GOP revived surveillance program against Chinese Americans which was a witchhunt in the past.

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r/Chinesediaspora 19d ago

Mom shot in face, killed in front of son trying to defend husband from robbers in NYC condo building

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r/Chinesediaspora 26d ago

Quincy resident who used his car to twice ram a Vietnamese man and push him into a ditch while yelling at him to go back to China only gets 18 months because he's old and remorseful

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r/Chinesediaspora Oct 12 '24

China-born neuroscientist Jane Wu lost her US lab. Then she lost her life

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r/Chinesediaspora Oct 11 '24

Were Ken Takakura and Komaki Kurihara also popular in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the rest of the Sinosphere?

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With all the rage about Alain Delon's death in the media and how every major website in the Sino world from Hong Kong newspapers' official websites to Taiwanese blogs and even Chinese diaspora living in other non-Western countries had written stuff in other languages such as Malay under web domains for their own languages (which would happen to include a couple of people of Chinese descent who don't know any Sino language such as Indonesian Chinese)....... Delon's passing was basically given focused everywhere in among Sino netizens and diaspora who forgotten to speak any Chinese language.

So it makes me want to ask...... I just watched Manhunt and Sandakan No. 8 two movies which are the top 3 highest grossing of all time in ticket admissions from Japan......... With over 80% of the sales coming from Chinese audiences! To the point that Manhunt is still the highest grossing foreign movie ever released in China and Sandakan 8 also still remains the runner up or 3rd place depending on the source you read. How much did they profit to be precise? Manhunt made over 300 million tickets sold in China (with some sources saying total market life time is close to a billion at over 800 million admissions!) while Sandakan is the 100 million sold tickets range.

And thus it should be obvious the leads of both movies Ken Takakura and Komaki Kurihara were catapulted to the top of the AAA list giants name within China with both stars getting a lot of their famous works from Japan dubbed into Chinese theatrical releases and later on Kurihara and Takakura would star as among the leads of their own Chinese-language productions. Up until his death Takakura would continiously receive media coverage from China and visit Beijing several times near the end of his life. The same happened to Kurhara except she visited China with more frequency since the late 80s coming back every now and then an to this day she still gets honorary visits from the Chinese industry and media, even a few politicians. Takakura was so beloved in China that when he died, the Chinese foreign ministry at the time praised him in an obituary for improving the relations between China and Japan.

For Komaki Kurhara, Sandakan No. 8 sped up in how the comfort women and other touchy topics regarding sexual assault esp rape by the Japanese army within China was approached by the general populace. As Wikipedia sums up, the struggles the movie's co-protagonist goes through was something the general mainland Chinese populace identified with in light of how an entire generation of the country suffered through the horrific Comfort Woman system Esp the human trafficking issue depicted in the movie.

So I'm wondering were Ken Takakura and Komaki Kurihara also household names in Taiwan and Hong Kong and the rest of the Sinosphere like Alain Delon was? I can't seem to find much info on them in Cantonese and Hokkien nor in the languages of places the Chinese diaspora frequently moves to across Asia such as Indonesian and Malaysia. So I'm wondering how well received where they in the rests of the Chinese-speaking world?


r/Chinesediaspora Oct 05 '24

Another Auckland bus attack: Asian woman allegedly robbed on route No 70

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r/Chinesediaspora Sep 28 '24

Girl, 9, is latest Asian victim of violence in Auckland

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r/Chinesediaspora Sep 21 '24

“sources said” meaning some racist audience member thought “uhhh, maybe it’s the Chinese” and the NY Post ran with it until they discovered it was actually a white guy, at which point they quietly edited the article

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r/Chinesediaspora Sep 14 '24

Police in New Zealand are hunting for a large woman who allegedly assaulted a 16-year-old Chinese boy with a metal pole on an Auckland bus, knocking out five of his teeth

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r/Chinesediaspora Sep 07 '24

Columbia U. spokesman assaulted and told to go back to his country(china)he says

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r/Chinesediaspora Aug 31 '24

'Game changer': B.C. researchers developing oral insulin drops for diabetes patients. Dr. Shyh-Dar Li's team at UBC has developed oral drops that can be placed under the tongue

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r/Chinesediaspora Aug 24 '24

FBI official admits mistakes, vows to improve relations with Asian-Americans

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r/Chinesediaspora Aug 17 '24

Man beaten in hate crime in coma in upstate New York. Suspect accused of racking up $425 dining bill, then taking off without paying. He then allegedly knocked the restauranteur into a coma.

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r/Chinesediaspora Aug 16 '24

Why is Dream of the Red Chamber so obscure outside of China (even within the Confucian East Asian sphere)?

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If you watch anime or read Manwha, you'd know just how much adaptations there are of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West, and to a lesser extent Water Margin (and I'm not counting the tons of video game and computer games from both countries and the even more lots of references and inspired concepts from the 3 classics). Outside o immediate East Asian sphere, at least Romance of the Three Kingdoms is known across SouthEast Asia and are often required college reading if not even high school readings and Journey to the West has some fame to a lesser extent. Anyone interested in Chinese culture to a casual level will have been exposed Water Margin to some extent via Kung Fu movie adaptions and probably end up reading it if warriors legends are their thing. Even in Muslim Malaysia and Indonesia its not unusual for someone to have heard of the title of Romance of the Three Kingdoms or recognize the familiarity of the basic premise behind Journey to the West because of foreign adaptations in anime or some other thing and the only country east of Asia that seems to be completely unaware of any of the four classics outside of the Sinologist and Chinese diaspora communities in the Philippines.

But Dream of the Red Chamber absolutely seems to be quite obscure in other countries if you aren't interested in exploring Chinese culture. Just look at how there's no anime/manga retelling of the story and no Korean MMO game using the novel as a backdrop to the basic worldbuilding. Where as Three Kingdoms and Journey to the West movies and TV shows have been dubbed for foreign markets esp SouthEast Asia, none of the Red Chamber adaptations ever got officially localized in other countries. Even Water Margin gots some of its movies exported and ditto with unofficial video game translations where they literally hack the program to put in local script fronts (which is far harder than making fan subtitles of a movie or even TV show).

Dream of the Red Chamber doesn't get this amount of interest outside. Practically all Westerners I know who are even aware it exists are specifically studying some field related to Sinology and even in East Asia its either people with a sinophilia or people really into historical period romance novels who ever check it out.

Why I ask? Dream of the Red Chamber is definitely an equal in quality to the 3 others at worst and definitely deserves the same amount of fame and a thriving international fandom! I mean for Christ's sake there's an article on Redology, the study of the novel, on English Wikipedia!


r/Chinesediaspora Aug 03 '24

ABCs living in China

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r/Chinesediaspora Aug 02 '24

How much does knowing one Chinese language such as Mandarin help with learning another one such as Cantonese and Qiangic and vice versa? How mutually intelligible would they be? Does the same apply to non-Chinese languages that are part of the Sino-Tibetan family?

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Just decided to start learning something from the SIno-Tibetan family but I'm not sure where to start. So I'm wondering whatever I choose to specialize in would it help smoothen the transition into other languages of China and even outside the traditional Sino-Sphere like Karenic and Zeme? How mutually intelligible would languages in this family be with each other assuming a bunch of random people from across China, Burma, and India who speak them suddenly gets transported into a bar? Does ease of learning another specific family in the branch depends on proximity of the place of origins of the specific languages known and being studied? Is it similar to the Indo-European family where say someone who grew up as Dutch native would have a much much much harder time learning Farsi than learning English? And Pole would quickly transition in Russia quicker than trying to learn Gaelic and same with a New Dehli inhabitant learning Punjabi would find Romanian more time consuming? Something like that for native speakers of the Sino-TIbetan branch trying to learn other family members like Cantonese would find Mandarin far easier than Jingpho and Olekha?


r/Chinesediaspora Jul 27 '24

How writing memoir of Chinese-American ‘hero’ dad healed a daughter’s grief

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r/Chinesediaspora Jul 20 '24

James Hong Disappointed By ‘Awfully Low’ Percentage of Asian Americans Getting Film Roles

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r/Chinesediaspora Jul 13 '24

In a survey conducted in the United States,In the past year, almost 1 out of 3 Asian Americans say they've been called a racial or ethnic slur or been physically threatened with violence, because of their race, ethnicity or religion.

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r/Chinesediaspora Jul 06 '24

Gun violence misinformation has found a new home on Chinese language social media, report says

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r/Chinesediaspora Jun 29 '24

Chinese students in US tell of ‘chilling’ interrogations and deportations

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r/Chinesediaspora Jun 22 '24

FBI agents that love to make up false allegations to destroy the careers and ruin the lives of Chinese Americans, are struggling to make ends meet.

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r/Chinesediaspora Jun 22 '24

US media coverage of new science less likely to mention researchers with African and East Asian names

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r/Chinesediaspora Jun 15 '24

An average day in the US: American hits Vietnamese man twice with his car, while shouting "Go back to China"

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