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Zhou Xuan

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Zhou Xuan (born Su Pu; August 1, 1918 – September 22, 1957), also romanized as Chow Hsuan, was an iconic Chinese singer and film actress. [1]

54 relations: Adia Chan, Anti-Rightist Campaign, Bright Moon Song and Dance Troupe, C-pop, Cantonese, Cantopop, Cecilia Cheung, Cerebritis, Changzhou, China, China Radio International, Chinese language, Concordia University, Deric Wan, Dream of the Red Chamber (1944 film), Edinburgh University Press, Encephalitis, Epoch Times, Flute, Genre, History of psychiatric institutions, Jiangsu, Leon Lai, Li Jinhui, Mandopop, Mental breakdown, Night Inn, Ogg, Oldies, Opium, Phonograph record, Pianist, Popular music, Republic of China (1912–1949), Seven Great Singing Stars, Shanghai, Shenyang Metro, Shi Hui (actor), Shidaiqu, Song Bird (TV series), Sorrows of the Forbidden City, Street Angel (1937 film), Su Shi, The New York Times International Edition, The Wandering Songstress, Toronto, Toronto Transit Commission, TVB, University Press of Mississippi, Wang (surname), ..., When Will You Return?, Xinhua News Agency, Yuan Muzhi, Zhou (surname). Expand index (4 more) »

Adia Chan

Adia Chan is an Indonesian-born Hong Kong actress, singer, model, and spokesperson.

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Anti-Rightist Campaign

The Anti-Rightist Campaign in the People's Republic of China, which lasted from roughly 1957 to 1959, was a campaign to purge alleged "rightists" within the Communist Party of China (CPC) and abroad.

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Bright Moon Song and Dance Troupe

Bright Moon Song and Dance Troupe (明月歌舞团) was a group founded by Li Jinhui from late 1920s to 1930s.

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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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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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Cecilia Cheung

Cecilia Cheung Pak-Chi (born 24 May 1980) is an award-winning Hong Kong actress and cantopop singer.

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Cerebritis

Cerebritis is an infection of the brain that normally leads to the formation of an abscess within the brain itself.

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Changzhou

Changzhou is a prefecture-level city in southern Jiangsu province of China.

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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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China Radio International

China Radio International (CRI) is a state-owned international radio broadcaster of the People's Republic of China.

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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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Concordia University

Concordia University (commonly referred to as Concordia) is a public comprehensive university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on unceded Indigenous lands.

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Deric Wan

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Dream of the Red Chamber (1944 film)

Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as Dream of the Red Mansions) is a 1944 Chinese film directed by Bu Wancang.

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Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press is a scholarly publisher of academic books and journals, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Encephalitis

Encephalitis is inflammation of the brain.

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Epoch Times

Epoch Times is a multi-language newspaper headquartered in New York City.

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Flute

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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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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History of psychiatric institutions

The rise of the lunatic asylum and its gradual transformation into, and eventual replacement by, the modern psychiatric hospital, explains the rise of organised, institutional psychiatry.

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Jiangsu

Jiangsu, formerly romanized as Kiangsu, is an eastern-central coastal province of the People's Republic of China.

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Leon Lai

Leon Lai-ming, BBS, MH (born 11 December 1966) is a Chinese-born Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer.

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Li Jinhui

Li Jinhui (5 September 1891 – 15 February 1967) was a Chinese composer and songwriter born in Xiangtan, Hunan, Qing China.

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Mandopop

Mandopop refers to Mandarin popular music.

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Mental breakdown

A mental breakdown (also known as a nervous breakdown) is an acute, time-limited mental disorder that manifests primarily as severe stress-induced depression, anxiety, Paranoia, or dissociation in a previously functional individual, to the extent that they are no longer able to function on a day-to-day basis until the disorder is resolved.

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Night Inn

Night Inn is a Chinese black-and-white film released in 1947, directed by Huang Zuolin and starring the popular Shanghai singer Zhou Xuan.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Oldies

Oldies is a radio format that concentrates on rock and roll and pop music from the latter half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1970s or 1980s.

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Opium

Opium (poppy tears, with the scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy (scientific name: Papaver somniferum).

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Pianist

A pianist is an individual musician who plays the piano.

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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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Republic of China (1912–1949)

The Republic of China was a sovereign state in East Asia, that occupied the territories of modern China, and for part of its history Mongolia and Taiwan.

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Seven Great Singing Stars

The Seven Great Singing Stars were the seven most renowned singers of China in the 1940s.

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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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Shenyang Metro

Shenyang Metro is the metro system for the city of Shenyang, Liaoning province in China.

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Shi Hui (actor)

Shi Hui (1915 – December 1957), born Shi Yutao, was a Chinese actor and film director who gained prominence throughout the 1940s through 1950s.

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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 Bird (TV series)

Song Bird (天涯歌女) is a historical drama television series produced by TVB and broadcast in Hong Kong in 1989.

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Sorrows of the Forbidden City

Sorrows of the Forbidden City is a Chinese film released in 1948 and directed by Zhu Shilin.

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Street Angel (1937 film)

Street Angel is a Chinese film released in 1937.

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Su Shi

Su Shi (8January103724August1101), also known as Su Dongpo, was a Chinese writer, poet, painter, calligrapher, pharmacologist, gastronome, and a statesman of the Song dynasty.

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The New York Times International Edition

The New York Times International Edition is an English-language newspaper printed at 38 sites throughout the world and sold in more than 160 countries and territories.

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The Wandering Songstress

"Tianya genü", or "The Wandering Songstress", is one of two theme songs from the 1937 Chinese film Street Angel; the other being the "Four Seasons Song".

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Toronto Transit Commission

The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is a public transport agency that operates bus, subway, streetcar, and paratransit services in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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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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University Press of Mississippi

The University Press of Mississippi, founded in 1970, is a publisher that is sponsored by the eight state universities in Mississippi.

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Wang (surname)

Wang is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surnames 王 (Wáng) and 汪 (Wāng).

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When Will You Return?

"When Will You Return?" is a Chinese song first sung by Zhou Xuan in 1937, but also well known as a song by Teresa Teng.

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Xinhua News Agency

Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation: J. C. Wells: Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 3rd ed., for both British and American English) or New China News Agency is the official state-run press agency of the People's Republic of China.

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Yuan Muzhi

Yuan Muzhi (March 3, 1909 – January 30, 1978) was an actor and director from the Republic of China and later of the People's Republic of China.

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Zhou (surname)

Zhōu is the Hanyu Pinyin transliteration of the Chinese family name 周, which now ranks as the 10th most common surname in Mainland China, and 71st in South Korea.

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Chow Hsuan, Hsuan Chow, Su Pu, Zhou Xiaohong.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Xuan

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