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90 relations: A Better Tomorrow, Alan Tam, Anita Mui, British Hong Kong, C-pop, Cantonese, Cantonese opera, Cantopop, Chet Lam, China, Chinese language, Classical music, Communist Party of China, Danny Chan, Edison Chen, Education in Hong Kong, Elvis Presley, English language, Fiona Sit, Four Heavenly Kings (Hong Kong), Gangtai, Genre, Ghost Style, Glittering Days (TV series), Government of Hong Kong, Guangdong, HMV, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Basic Law, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Hong Kong English pop, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Hong Kong University Press, Huangmei opera, International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, Ivy Ling Po, J-pop, Jacky Cheung, Janice Vidal, Jenny Tseng, Jill Vidal, Johnny Mathis, Joseph Koo, K-pop, Karen Mok, Leslie Cheung, Liza Wang, Mainland China, Mandopop, ..., Music of China, Music of Japan, Music of the United Kingdom, Music of the United States, Music sampling in Hong Kong, North Point, Ogg, Pathé Records (Hong Kong), Paula Tsui, Pipa, Politics of China, Pop music, Popular music, Pornography, Rockit Hong Kong Music Festival, Roman Tam, Sam Hui, Sandra Lang, Shanghai, Shidaiqu, Song dynasty, Standard Chinese, Swire, Taiwan, Tang Kee-chan, Television, Teresa Carpio, Teresa Teng, The Beatles, The Pancakes, Theme music, Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong, TVB, Upper class, Upper middle class, Viacom International Media Networks, Yuanfen, 1950s in Hong Kong, 1960s in Hong Kong, 1970s in Hong Kong. Expand index (40 more) »
A Better Tomorrow
A Better Tomorrow is a 1986 Hong Kong crime film, directed by John Woo, and starring Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung and Chow Yun-fat.
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Alan Tam
Alan Tam Wing-lun MH (born 23 August 1950) is a Hong Kong singer and actor.
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Anita Mui
Anita Mui Yim-fong (10 October 1963 – 30 December 2003) was a Hong Kong singer and actress making major contributions to the Cantopop music scene and receiving numerous awards and honours.
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British Hong Kong
British Hong Kong was the period during which Hong Kong was under British Crown rule, from 1841 to 1997 (excluding the Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945).
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C-pop
C-pop is an abbreviation for Chinese popular music, a loosely defined musical genre by artists originating from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
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Cantonese
The Cantonese language is a variety of Chinese spoken in the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding area in southeastern China.
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Cantonese opera
The Cantonese opera is one of the major categories in Chinese opera, originating in southern China's Guangdong Province.
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Cantopop
Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") or HK-pop (short for "Hong Kong pop music") is a genre of Cantonese music made primarily in Hong Kong, and also used to refer to the cultural context of its production and consumption.
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Chet Lam
Chet Lam is a Hong Kong-based independent "city-folk" singer-songwriter.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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Chinese language
Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.
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Classical music
Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.
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Communist Party of China
The Communist Party of China (CPC), also referred to as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China.
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Danny Chan
Danny Chan Pak-keung (7 September 1958 – 25 October 1993) was a Hong Kong singer.
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Edison Chen
Edison Koon-hei Chen (born 7 October 1980) is a Canadian actor, rapper, singer-songwriter, producer, entrepreneur, artist and fashion designer.
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Education in Hong Kong
Education in Hong Kong is largely modelled on that of the United Kingdom, particularly the English system.
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Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Fiona Sit
Fiona Sit (born 11 August 1981) is a Hong Kong singer and actress.
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Four Heavenly Kings (Hong Kong)
Four Heavenly Kings (四大天王) is a Chinese term created in June 1992 by Oriental Daily News to refer to the four biggest male entertainment/arts superstars in Hong Kong at that time: Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok and Leon Lai.
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Gangtai
Gangtai are the C-pop artists and musical style from Hong Kong or Taiwan.
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Genre
Genre is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time.
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Ghost Style
Ghost Style is a rapper and producer based in Hong Kong.
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Glittering Days (TV series)
Glittering Days (Traditional Chinese: 東方之珠) is a TVB period drama series broadcast in November 2006.
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Government of Hong Kong
The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, commonly the Hong Kong Government or simplified as GovHK, refers to the executive authorities of the Hong Kong SAR.
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Guangdong
Guangdong is a province in South China, located on the South China Sea coast.
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HMV
HMV Retail Ltd. is an entertainment retailing company (registered in England) operating in the United Kingdom.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory of China on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.
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Hong Kong Basic Law
The Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China is the constitutional document of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
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Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra
The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra (abbreviated HKCO) is an orchestra of Chinese traditional instruments based in Hong Kong.
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Hong Kong English pop
Hong Kong English pop (Chinese: 英文歌) are English language songs that are made, performed and popularised in Hong Kong.
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Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (Chinese: 香港管弦樂團), commonly abbreviated as HKPO or HKPhil (Chinese: 港樂), is the largest symphony orchestra in Hong Kong.
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Hong Kong Sinfonietta
The Hong Kong Sinfonietta (Chinese: 香港小交響樂團) is a professional symphony orchestra based in Hong Kong, China.
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Hong Kong University Press
Hong Kong University Press is the university press of the University of Hong Kong.
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Huangmei opera
Huangmei or Huangmei tone (黃梅戲 or 黃梅調, pinyin: Huángméixì or Huángméidiào) originated as a form of rural folksong and dance that has been in existence for the last 200 years and possibly longer.
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International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide.
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Ivy Ling Po
Huang Yu-chun (born 16 November 1939 in Shantou, Republic of China), known by her final stage name Ivy Ling Po, is a retired Hong Kong actress and Chinese opera singer.
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J-pop
J-pop (often stylized as J-POP; ジェイポップ jeipoppu; an abbreviation for Japanese pop), natively also known simply as, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s.
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Jacky Cheung
Jacky Cheung Hok-yau (born 10 July 1961) is a Hong Kong singer, songwriter and actor.
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Janice Vidal
Janice M. Vidal (born 13 April 1982) is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer of mixed Chinese, Filipino and Korean descent.
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Jenny Tseng
Jenny Tseng (Yan Nei; born 20 February 1953), is a Macau singer, actress and producer, mostly known in Cantonese-speaking regions, based in Hong Kong for much of her career. Tseng is one of the most popular female singer in Hong Kong during the Golden Age of Music and remained popular throughout the late 70s all through to the early 90s. Her career has spawned for 4 decades, and she has become one of the most successful cantopop singers, she has released over 130 albums and sold over 10 million records worldwide.
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Jill Vidal
Jill M. Vidal, often referred to as Wei Si or simply as Jill, is a Hong Kong-based female urban pop singer.
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Johnny Mathis
John Royce Mathis (born September 30, 1935) is an American singer of popular music.
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Joseph Koo
Joseph Koo Kar-Fai, GBS (born 3 February 1933 in Guangzhou, China) is one of the most respected composers in Hong Kong.
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K-pop
K-pop (abbreviation of Korean pop) characterized by a wide variety of audiovisual elements.
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Karen Mok
Karen Joy Morris, known professionally as Karen Mok, is one of the leading Hong Kong actress and pop stars.
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Leslie Cheung
Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing (12 September 1956 – 1 April 2003) was a Hong Kong singer, actor as well as composer.
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Liza Wang
Liza Wang Ming-chuen, SBShttp://www.scmp.com/article/461488/bauhinia-honours-citys-sars-heroes (born 28 August 1947) is a diva, actress and MC from Hong Kong.
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Mainland China
Mainland China, also known as the Chinese mainland, is the geopolitical as well as geographical area under the direct jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Mandopop
Mandopop refers to Mandarin popular music.
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Music of China
Music of China refers to the music of the Chinese people, which may be the music of the Han Chinese as well as other ethnic minorities within mainland China.
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Music of Japan
The music of Japan includes a wide array of performers in distinct styles both traditional and modern.
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Music of the United Kingdom
Throughout its history, the United Kingdom has been a major producer and source of musical creation, drawing its artistic basis from the history of the United Kingdom, from church music, Western culture and the ancient and traditional folk music and instrumentation of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
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Music of the United States
The music of the United States reflects the country's multi-ethnic population through a diverse array of styles.
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Music sampling in Hong Kong
Sampling (also known in Hong Kong as secondary creation or second production) changes, edits or adds new elements to an existing song, commonly to express an opinion.
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North Point
North Point is a mixed-use urban area in the Eastern District of Hong Kong.
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Ogg
Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.
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Pathé Records (Hong Kong)
Pathé Records is the first major record company in Shanghai, China and later Hong Kong.
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Paula Tsui
Paula Tsui Siu-fung is a Cantopop singer in Hong Kong, with a career of spanning over 40 years.
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Pipa
The pipa is a four-stringed Chinese musical instrument, belonging to the plucked category of instruments.
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Politics of China
The politics of the People's Republic of China takes place in a framework of a socialist republic run by a single party, the Communist Party of China, headed by General Secretary.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.
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Popular music
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.
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Pornography
Pornography (often abbreviated porn) is the portrayal of sexual subject matter for the exclusive purpose of sexual arousal.
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Rockit Hong Kong Music Festival
Rockit Hong Kong Music Festival was held each autumn from 2003 to 2006 in Hong Kong's Victoria Park.
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Roman Tam
Roman Tam Pak-sin (11 February 1945 – 18 October 2002), known professionally by his stage name Law Man, was a Hong Kong singer.
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Sam Hui
Samuel Hui Koon-kit (born 6 September 1948), usually known as Sam Hui, is a Hong Kong musician, singer, songwriter and actor.
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Sandra Lang
Sandra Lang (born 梁玉姬; Yale: Lèuhng Yuhkgēi) is a former Taishan Cantopop singer who was active in the 1970s.
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Shanghai
Shanghai (Wu Chinese) is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China and the most populous city proper in the world, with a population of more than 24 million.
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Shidaiqu
Shidaiqu is a type of Chinese folk/American jazz fusion music that originated in Shanghai, China, in the 1920s.
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Song dynasty
The Song dynasty (960–1279) was an era of Chinese history that began in 960 and continued until 1279.
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Standard Chinese
Standard Chinese, also known as Modern Standard Mandarin, Standard Mandarin, or simply Mandarin, is a standard variety of Chinese that is the sole official language of both China and Taiwan (de facto), and also one of the four official languages of Singapore.
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Swire
The Swire Group is a diversified conglomerate, headquartered in Swire House in the City of Westminster, London.
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.
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Tang Kee-chan
Tang Kee Chan (February 17, 1912 - July 2, 1991) was a Hong Kong actor, singer and radio personality.
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Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.
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Teresa Carpio
Teresa Carpio (born 30 September 1956 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong English pop and Cantopop singer, actress, and singing teacher.
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Teresa Teng
Teresa Teng (29 January 1953 – 8 May 1995) was a Taiwanese singer.
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The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.
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The Pancakes
The Pancakes is a Hong Kong–based one-girl band consisting of independent singer-songwriter Dejay Choi.
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Theme music
Theme music is a piece that is often written specifically for a radio program, television program, video game or movie, and usually played during the intro, opening credits and/or ending credits.
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Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong
The transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China, referred to as "the Handover" internationally or "the Return" in Mainland China, took place on 1 July 1997.
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TVB
Television Broadcasts Limited, commonly known as TVB, was the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong and commenced broadcasting on 19 November 1967.
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Upper class
The upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of people who hold the highest social status, and usuall are also the wealthiest members of society, and also wield the greatest political power.
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Upper middle class
In sociology, the upper middle class is the social group constituted by higher status members of the middle class.
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Viacom International Media Networks
Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) is the international division of Viacom.
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Yuanfen
Yuán or Yuanfen (Vietnamese: duyên phận), "fateful coincidence," is a concept in the Chinese folk religion describing good and bad chances and potential relationships.
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1950s in Hong Kong
The 1950s in Hong Kong began against the chaotic backdrop of the resumption of British sovereignty after the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong ended in 1945, and the renewal of the Nationalist-Communist Civil War in mainland China.
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1960s in Hong Kong
1960s in Hong Kong continued with the development and expansion of manufacturing that began in the previous decade.
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1970s in Hong Kong
Hong Kong in the 1970s underwent many changes that shaped its future, led for most of the decade by its longest-serving and reform-minded Governor, Murray MacLehose.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Hong_Kong
