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Fragile (Namewee song) " Fragile " (Chinese: 玻璃心; pinyin: bōlí xīn; Wade–Giles: po1li2 hsin1; lit. 'glass heart') is a Mandarin single by Malaysian singer Namewee and Australian singer Kimberley Chen released on 15 October 2021. [1] On YouTube, the song had over 15 million views within days, and it held the top spot of Hong Kong ...
Taiwanese Hokkien is a variety of Hokkien, a Southern Min language. Like many varieties of Min Chinese, it has distinct literary and colloquial layers of vocabulary, often associated with formal and informal registers respectively. The literary layer can be traced to the late Tang dynasty, and as such is related to Middle Chinese.
Orchestra in black bloc playing the march Glory to Hong Kong [ 21 ] The word "glory" (榮光) in the song title consists of the Chinese characters for honour (榮; wing4) and brilliance (光; gwong1). [ 22 ] The term has been used in poems by Li Bai and a prose by Lu Xun, in addition to being a common term used by Christians.
As a country rich in Chinese folk culture and with many indigenous tribes with their own distinct artistic identity, various folk music styles are appreciated in Taiwan. In addition, people in Taiwan highly appreciate various style of Western classical music and pop music. Taiwan is a major Mandopop hub.
A series of wars and confrontations took place between 1880 and 1945, with Japan invading and seizing Taiwan, Manchuria and most of China. Japan was eventually defeated and withdrew in 1945. Since 1950, relations have been tense after the Korean War, the Cold War and the grievances of Japanese war crimes [e] committed in China and beyond.
A Japanese destroyer crossed the Taiwan Strait for the first time since 1954, per reports, in a move that is likely to increase tensions with China.
Mandopop is categorized as a subgenre of commercial Chinese-language music within C-pop. Popular music sung in Mandarin was the first variety of popular music in Chinese to establish itself as a viable industry. It originated in Shanghai; later, Hong Kong, Taipei and Beijing also emerged as important centers of the Mandopop music industry. [3]
Hokkien pop, also known as Taiwanese Hokkien popular music, T-pop (Chinese: 臺語流行音樂), Tai-pop, Minnan Pop and Taiwanese folk (Chinese: 臺語歌), is a popular music genre sung in Hokkien, especially Taiwanese Hokkien and produced mainly in Taiwan and sometimes in Fujian in Mainland China or Hong Kong or even Singapore in Southeast Asia.