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| Title: | Romantic comedies of Cathay-MP&GI in the 1950s and 60s : language, locality, and urban character |
| Authors: | Ng, Kenny K. K. |
| Keywords: | Romantic comedies
Cathay-MP&GI
Cathay films |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Citation: | Jump cut, a review of contemporary media, no. 49, (Spring 2007) |
| Abstract: | In The Greatest Wedding on Earth [Nanbei yijiaqin] (Wang Tianlin, 1962), a Cantonese-speaking young man is in love with a Mandarin-speaking woman. The comedy depicts the cultural conflicts between the Mandarin-speaking “Northerners” (Beifang ren) and the Cantonese-speaking “Southerners” (Nanfang ren), whose spoken languages and living habits are diametrically opposed. In postwar Hong Kong, the “Northerner” was a collective term referring to the mainland immigrants, with a majority of whom originating from Shanghai, whereas the “Southerner” meant the majoring of local residents in the South China and Guangdong regions. In the film, as the young lovers develop affections with each other, which cross ethnic and dialectal boundaries between their families, they find their romance in bitter conflict with their own fathers, who hold ingrained prejudices against each other’s dialects and cultures. |
| Rights: | The article is available at http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc49.2007/Ng-Cathay/index.html |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1783.1/6900 |
| Appears in Collections: | HUMA Journal/Magazine Articles
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