A short rant about Canadian identity
Charlie Smith
May 29, 2025
Cantonese and Punjabi have been part of Canada’s linguistic identity for well over a century.
Tag: Mandarin
Classical crossover composer and singer Tzienna draws on multiple musical genres and multilingual Malaysian upbringing
Charlie Smith
November 3, 2024
The Jade Music Fest will present Tzienna at Performance Works on Granville Island with Jacqueline Teh, Scott Hsu, and Van Lefan.
古典跨界作曲家兼歌手柳慈：以多元音乐风格和马来西亚多语文化为灵感
Mei-Chen Chen
November 3, 2024
有些女歌手在全球家喻户晓，以至于只需使用单名就能让人识别，例如玛丹娜、碧昂丝、蕾哈娜、爱黛儿、雪儿和夏奇拉。温哥华歌手柳慈 (Tze) 也是单名出道，并怀抱著录制专辑和在世界各地演出的宏大抱负。然而，与流行音乐、R&B或舞曲不同，柳慈将自己的音乐风格定义为「古典跨界」。
古典跨界作曲家兼歌手柳慈：以多元音樂風格和馬來西亞多語文化為靈感
Mei-Chen Chen
November 3, 2024
有些女歌手在全球家喻戶曉，以至於只需使用單名就能讓人識別，例如瑪丹娜、碧昂絲、蕾哈娜、愛黛兒、雪兒和夏奇拉。溫哥華歌手柳慈 (Tze) 也是單名出道，並懷抱著錄製專輯和在世界各地演出的宏大抱負。然而，與流行音樂、R&B或舞曲不同，柳慈將自己的音樂風格定義為「古典跨界」。
Singer-songwriter Daniel Lew credits Jade Music Fest for opening door to performing multilingual gigs in Canada and Asia
Charlie Smith
October 25, 2024
Lew plans to unveil two original songs in Mandarin and will play one original song with half the lyrics in Cantonese at this year’s event.
溫哥華出生的李豪在 TaiwanPlus 《豪哥海上看臺灣》中找到人生幸福
Mei-Chen Chen
August 2, 2024
在成為律師、商人和台灣電視節目主持人之前，李豪 (Leo Seewald) 做了一件不同凡響的事。儘管沒有華人血統，他在10歲時就在溫哥華的家鄉開始上中文學校。
Vancouver-born Leo Seewald finds his bliss as the Mandarin-speaking host of Happy Fisherman on TaiwanPlus TV channel
Charlie Smith
August 2, 2024
Seewald went from practising law in his hometown to becoming a businessman in Asia before transitioning into broadcasting.
投票制定「国语」的传说
Staff
July 10, 2024
大家或许听过一个中华民国的「国语」如何制定的故事。中华民国成立时，政府要选一个方言做为国语，当时北京话已经通行全国，自然成了首选。然而，因为首创革命的中山先生是广东人，所以部分人士支持以广东话为国语。双方僵持不下，只好投票决定。最后广东话输了一票，所以国民政府就采用北京话为国语。真的假的？这篇就来谈谈这段现代汉语发展的往事，一探关于制定国语的传说。
投票制定「國語」的傳說
Staff
July 10, 2024
大家或許聽過一個中華民國的「國語」如何制定的故事。中華民國成立時，政府要選一個方言做為國語，當時北京話已經通行全國，自然成了首選。然而，因為首創革命的中山先生是廣東人，所以部分人士支持以廣東話為國語。雙方僵持不下，只好投票決定。最後廣東話輸了一票，所以國民政府就採用北京話為國語。真的假的？這篇就來談談這段現代漢語發展的往事，一探關於制定國語的傳說。
What’s so standard about Standard Chinese?
Staff
July 10, 2024
A former professor explains how the republican government of China settled on a standard language in a country with hundreds of dialects.
A short rant about Canadian identity
Charlie Smith
May 29, 2025
Classical crossover composer and singer Tzienna draws on multiple musical genres and multilingual Malaysian upbringing
Charlie Smith
November 3, 2024
古典跨界作曲家兼歌手柳慈：以多元音乐风格和马来西亚多语文化为灵感
Mei-Chen Chen
November 3, 2024
古典跨界作曲家兼歌手柳慈：以多元音樂風格和馬來西亞多語文化為靈感
Mei-Chen Chen
November 3, 2024
Singer-songwriter Daniel Lew credits Jade Music Fest for opening door to performing multilingual gigs in Canada and Asia
Charlie Smith
October 25, 2024
溫哥華出生的李豪在 TaiwanPlus 《豪哥海上看臺灣》中找到人生幸福
Mei-Chen Chen
August 2, 2024
Vancouver-born Leo Seewald finds his bliss as the Mandarin-speaking host of Happy Fisherman on TaiwanPlus TV channel
Charlie Smith
August 2, 2024
投票制定「国语」的传说
Staff
July 10, 2024
投票制定「國語」的傳說
Staff
July 10, 2024
What’s so standard about Standard Chinese?
Staff
July 10, 2024
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation). With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.
This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.