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Title	The Past, Present, and Future of Cantonese Language and Culture
Creator	Lam, Zoe Yu, Henry
Contributor	Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Date Issued	2015-06-25
Description	Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Is Cantonese a "dialect" or a "language"? is it a "culture" or a distinct "society"? Or is Cantonese something both more and less than all of these? The keynote for this workshop introduces how we might think about "Cantonese Worlds" both historically and in the present. Drawing upon the migration of peoples across the globe who spoke various forms of what we might consider "Cantonese," we consider the "Cantonese Worlds" that have been made historically over the last 500 years, and their prospects in the present day. Over the last 50 years, migrations between Hong Kong and Canada have transformed cities such as Toronto and Vancouver. Significant changes in real estate, business, philanthropy, and education, as well as cultural transformations in language, popular media, and mass consumption have reshaped societies on both sides of the Pacific. Flows of people, goods, and ideas have been multidirectional--even as hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong Chinese became Canadian citizens, Canadians of both Chinese and non-Chinese heritage also migrated to Hong Kong for work and family. Counting the estimated 300,000 Canadian passport holders living in Hong Kong would rank it among the ten largest “Canadian” cities! The Hong Kong-Canada Crosscurrents Project looks back on the last half century in order to understand how the migration of people, goods, and ideas across the Pacific has created a complex crosscurrent of dense and sometimes surprising connections, including the transformation and re-animation of a Cantonese Pacific world that had spanned the ocean for centuries.
Subject	Cantonese Culture
Geographic Location	Hong Kong Canada Toronto (Ont.) Vancouver (B.C.)
Type	Moving Image
Language	eng
Date Available	2017-01-31
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0340969
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/60460
Affiliation	Arts, Faculty of History, Department of Linguistics, Department of
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty Researcher
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
AggregatedSourceRepository	DSpace

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