What Cantonese slang term for Westerners is referenced by the title of a 2006 film by Nick Broomfield?
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Ghosts (2006 film) Ghosts is a 2006 drama film directed by Nick Broomfield, based on the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster. The title is a reference to the Cantonese slang term "Gweilo" (鬼佬), meaning "ghost man", used for white people.
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Gweilo Gweilo or gwailou (, pronounced ] ) is a common Cantonese slang term for Westerners. In its unmodified form, it applies only to European ethnicities and has a history of racially deprecatory use. Cantonese speakers frequently use "gwailou" to refer to Westerners in general use, in a non-derogatory context, although whether this type of usage is offensive is disputed by both Cantonese and Westerners alike.
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Treasure Inn Treasure Inn is a 2011 Hong Kong "wuxia" comedy film directed by Wong Jing and Corey Yuen, starring Nicholas Tse, Nick Cheung, Charlene Choi, Liu Yang, Tong Dawei and Huang Yi.
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Dragon Lady A Dragon Lady is usually a stereotype of East Asian and occasionally South Asian women as strong, deceitful, domineering, or mysterious. The term's origin and usage is Western, not Chinese. Inspired by the characters played by actress Anna May Wong, the term comes from the female villain in the comic strip "Terry and the Pirates". It has since been applied to powerful Asian women and to a number of racially Asian film actresses. The stereotype has generated a large quantity of sociological literature. "Dragon Lady" is sometimes applied to persons who lived before the term became part of American slang in the 1930s. It is also used to refer to any powerful but prickly woman, usually in a derogatory fashion.
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Rob-B-Hood Rob-B-Hood (, also known as Robin-B-Hood, literally: Baby Project) is a 2006 Hong Kong action comedy film written, produced and directed by Benny Chan, and starring Jackie Chan, Louis Koo, Yuen Biao and Michael Hui. The film was produced with a budget of HK$130 million (US$16.8 million) and filmed between December 2005 and January 2006. "Rob-B-Hood" is the first film in over 30 years in which Jackie Chan plays an anti-hero.
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Baizuo Baizuo (, literally "White left(ies)") is a derogatory Chinese epithet that came into being in the middle 10s of the 21st century. Soon, the word was inscribed on "Urban Dictionary" and received a considerable amount of attention. According to the Chinese nationalist media Guancha Syndicate, the word is an example of "Chinese values" exported to Western countries.
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Chinaman (term) Chinaman (female variant: Chinawoman) is a potentially contentious English language term that denotes a Chinese man or person, or as a Chinese national, or, in some cases, an indiscriminate term for a person native to geographical East Asia or of perceived East Asian race. Although the term has no negative connotations in older dictionaries, and the usage of such parallel compound terms as Englishman, Frenchman and Irishman remain unobjectionable, the term "Chinaman" is noted as offensive by modern dictionaries. Its derogatory connotations evolved from its use in pejorative contexts regarding the Chinese and other Asians. While usage of the term "Chinaman" is nowadays strongly discouraged by Asian American organizations, the term has been used by English speakers of Chinese descent and others, without offensive intent, and has also been used as a self-referential archetype by authors and artists of Asian descent.
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My Name Is Fame My Name Is Fame is a 2006 Hong Kong comedy-drama film starring Lau Ching-wan as a has-been actor and newcomer Huo Siyan as an aspiring actress and his apprentice.
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After This Our Exile After This Our Exile (父子, literally "Father-Son") is a 2006 Hong Kong film directed by Patrick Tam.
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Foxbat (film) Foxbat (original Chinese title: "Woo fook") is a 1977 Hong Kong English-language action film co-directed by Po-Chih Leong and Terence Young. It is based on an original story by Philip Chan and Po-Chih Leong.
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Bruceploitation Bruceploitation (a portmanteau of Bruce Lee and exploitation) refers to the practice on the part of filmmakers in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan of hiring Bruce Lee look-alike actors ("Lee-alikes") to star in many imitation martial arts films in order to cash in on Lee's success after his death. Bruceploitation is an exploitation film subgenre mostly seen in the 1970s after Lee's death in 1973.
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Crazy Stone (film) Crazy Stone () is a 2006 mainland Chinese black comedy film directed by Ning Hao and produced by Andy Lau. It was immensely popular, earning 6 million RMB in its first week and more than 23 million RMB (US$3 million) in total box office in Mainland China, despite its low budget (3 million HKD/US$400,000) and cast of unknowns. The movie was shot digitally on HD cameras and produced as part of Andy Lau's "FOCUS: First Cuts" series.
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Chinese Benevolent Association of Vancouver Chinese Benevolent Association of Vancouver () is a Chinese Canadian organization headquartered in Vancouver. As of 2006 it has 2,000 members and serves as a federation of various Vancouver-based Chinese organizations. Douglas Aitken of "The Georgia Straight" stated that the CBA was the most important organization operating in the Vancouver Chinatown in the first half of the 20th century. The "Vancouver Sun" wrote "They were, for all intents and purposes, the government of Chinatown."
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Nothing Is Impossible (film) Nothing Is Impossible is a 2006 Hong Kong film directed by Lam Wah-Chuen.
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Chinese Internet slang Chinese Internet slang is informal language coined to express ideas on the Chinese Internet in response to events, the influence of the mass media and foreign culture, and the desire of people to simplify and update the Chinese language. Slang that first appears on the net is often adopted to become current in everyday life. It includes content relating to all aspects of life—social, mass media, economic, and political etc. Internet slang is arguably the fastest-changing aspect of the language, created by a number of different influences—technology (the means used to input and send messages), mass media and foreign culture amongst others.
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Election (2005 film) Election (; literal title: "Black Society", a common Cantonese reference to the triads), is a 2005 Hong Kong crime film directed by Johnnie To. Featuring a large ensemble cast, the film stars Simon Yam and Tony Leung Ka-fai as two gang leaders engaged in a power struggle to become the new leader of a Hong Kong triad.
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List of Hong Kong films of 2006 A list of films produced in Hong Kong in 2006:
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Far West (Taixi) The Far West (Chinese and Japanese: 泰西: "tàixī; "rōmaji": taisei " ) is a Chinese and Japanese term that refers to Europe, or more broadly, to the entire Western world. Originally a name for parts of Inner Asia and India, the term Far West as a Chinese exonym for the West was coined by the Italian Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci. Ricci invented the phrase as an Asian parallel to the Eurocentric notion of the Far East, which positioned Europe as a region on the fringes of a Sinocentric world. The term Far West was also used in Japan and appears in many Japanese publications.
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The Postmodern Life of My Aunt The Postmodern Life of My Aunt () is a 2006 Hong Kong serio-comedy film, directed by Ann Hui, starring Siqin Gaowa and Chow Yun-fat. The film also guest-stars Chinese actresses Zhao Wei and Lisa Lu.
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Zhing-zhong Zhing-zhong (精装) is a Zimbabwean slang word meaning low cost, Asian (mostly Chinese) consumer products of poor quality.
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Shina (word) Shina (支那 , ]) is a largely archaic Japanese name for China. The word was originally used neutrally in both Chinese and Japanese, but came to be perceived as derogatory by the Chinese during the course of the Sino-Japanese Wars. As a result, it fell into disuse following the Second World War, was replaced by "chūgoku" (中国 ) , and is now viewed as an offensive, derogatory label by scholars especially when used in bad faith.
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Huan-a Huan-a () is a Hokkien word which means foreigner. 番 means 'foreign', and 仔 is a Hokkien noun suffix. This phrase is commonly perceived as derogatory by most non-Chinese speakers. Chinese Indonesians, Chinese Singaporeans, Chinese Filipinos and Chinese Malaysians use this word to refer to non-Chinese Southeast Asians. During the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, the Japanese were called "huan-a" by Native Taiwanese, with geisha called "hoan-á-ke" (番仔雞, lit. "foreign chicken") and the wives of Japanese men called "hoan-á-chiú-kan" (番仔酒矸, lit. "foreign liquor bottle"). "Huan-a" is now commonly used in Taiwan to refer to indigenous peoples (the Taiwanese aborigines). In Penang, "huan-a" are used to refer to Malays, whereas ang moh refers to Europeans and "Kling na" (吉零仔) refer to Tamils.