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Gweilo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gweilo (鬼佬; Jyutping: gwai2 lou2; Cantonese IPA: kwɐɪ This reflects a transformation in which an ethnic group begins referring to itself with a term which was originally considered an ethnic slur. In Mandarin, guizi (鬼子, w:pinyin: guǐzi) is a similar term to gweilo. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gweilo   (480 words)

Laser Mission commentary Gweilo: Oh, and he is so badly doubled in the action stuff. Gweilo: Well, he pulls off that accent so well, and you know any guy with an accent has to be smart. Gweilo: It is just so stupid, like that cheesy Bruce Lee double that they have... www.hkfilm.net /com_lasr.htm   (1202 words)

Gweilo by Martin Booth (Review) from Book-shopper.co.uk in association with Amazon Gweilo narrates the enthralling and evocative memoirs of Martin Booth's childhood in Hong Kong. It relates his adventures creating a magical scene of wonderful characters such as Sammy the dentist, an ex prisoner of war of the Japanese, who expertly distracted patients with tales of wartime atrocities; or the Queen of Kowloon, a tramp who claims to descend from a wealthy white Russian heritage. Gweilo is without doubt a worthy memorial to a great writer. www.book-shopper.co.uk /news/books/archives/2005/08/gweilo_by_marti.php   (133 words)

Goodbye, Gweilo The Cantonese word Gweilo means "Foreign Devil," and is used to refer to the non-Chinese population. Ann Marie Major, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the College of Communications and research associate in the Australia New Zealand Studies Center, 111 Carnegie Building, University Park, PA 16802; 814-865-3069; amm17@psu.edu. This essay is drawn from her book Goodbye Gweilo: Public Opinion and the 1997 Problem in Hong Kong (Hampton Press of Cresskill, New Jersey, 1996), coauthored with L. Erwin Atwood, senior research associate in the Australia New Zealand Studies Center. www.rps.psu.edu /may97/outlook.html   (800 words)

Bruce's Fist of Vengeance (1984)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) Another gweilo martial arts instructor who wants the manual for his very own sends thugs, two skanky ladies, and a microphone (not really) to get it. One moment, gweilo man tells his gweilo gal over the phone that she has failed him for the last time (just like Captain Needa in Empire Strikes Back). Seconds later, a thug breaks in and one premature cut later gweilo gal is straining hard to keep her mouth tightly closed as she holds herself underwater in the bathtub, supposedly drowned. www.kungfucinema.com /reviews/brucesfistofvengeance.htm   (735 words)

Gweilo Moments: Notes from Hong Kong on Motherhood, Adoption, Mid-Life and Cats - Robin Minietta - Chameleon Press Gweilo Moments: Notes from Hong Kong on Motherhood, Adoption, Mid-Life and Cats 'Gweilo Moments', a collection of interlocking essays by Robin Minietta, is a thoughtful -- and, provocative -- meditation on lives that unfold against the backdrop of Hong Kong. Segnala Gweilo Moments: Notes from Hong Kong on Motherhood, Adoption, Mid-Life and Cats ad un amico. www.englishbooks.it /BUS/9889706172/Gweilo_Moments:_Notes_from_Hong_Kong_on_Motherhood__Adoption__Mid-Life_and_Cats.htm   (221 words)

TIME Asia Print Page: Hong Kong's Golden Boy -- August 30, 2004 / Vol. 164, No. 9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) Gweilo is sometimes a bit novelistic for a memoir, but it is alive with delight in the new. This, plus his status as a gweilo ("ghostly man," or Caucasian), allows him to walk undeterred into Hong Kong's brothels and opium dens to befriend coolies, Triad gangsters and the real-life model for Hiroshima Joe. Gweilo is artfully shy of detail about what comes next, and sadly there will be no sequel. time.com /time/asia/magazine/printout/0,13675,501040830-686099,00.html   (874 words)

Asian Business Code Words | The Foreigner Syndrome | October 1997 Among the colorful terms the Cantonese Chinese came up with in reference to foreigners was gweilo (gway-ee-lo), a Cantonese term that means foreign devil or foreign ghost. Gweilo is still commonly used in the Cantonese region of China and elsewhere, since it has been spread around the world by Cantonese immigrants. Foreigners themselves have helped to change the image of gweilo by using it in reference to themselves and other non-Chinese, originally because it was one of the first Chinese words that foreigners learned, and they appreciated the humor involved. www.apmforum.com /columns/boye7.htm   (630 words)

Danwei Review: Peking Duck vs. Gweilo Diaries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) Peking Duck is written by Richard, a gay American writer and PR executive who lived in China during the SARS panic; moved to Singapore; and is now back in his native Arizona. Gweilo Diaries is written by Conrad, a former US Marine from somewhere around Alabama and Mississippi. Just after the 1000th US casualty in Iraq was announced, Peking Duck posted an image of American soldiers in an Iraqi town, with a Photoshopped banner strung across the street saying 'Welcome to our 1000th customer'. www.danwei.org /archives/000963.html   (517 words)

Gweilo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) And then we picked up M (hey there biga leader haha) from their condo because she was here for the weekend. Gweilo was the Chinese term for ghost that they used as a vicious insult for the white foreigners. When I say "exclusive", I meant it in a way that there were just a few recognizable people that around.I was expecting a handful of familiar faces but there were just 4 or 5 that I regularly see during gigs (except the managers and the rockstars, of course). www.ljseek.com /search/Gweilo   (686 words)

Kiss of the Dragon commentary gweilo: I know, in the commentary he gives a big long explanation for it, it's like "Dude, we get it, just get to the ass-kicking". gweilo: Hey man, that's what a dimmer switch and liquor is for. gweilo: And Bill Bellamy for even attempting to think he's a badass by being in that "Fastlane" show. www.hkfilm.net /com/kod.htm   (2013 words)

Long: Gweilo, one great book for a Gweilo from Michigan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) From the Free Dictionary Gweilo is: Gweilo (鬼佬; Jyutping: gwai2 lou2; Cantonese IPA: kwɐɪ It is used so commonly by Cantonese speakers to refer to white people and westerners in general that its use is not always derogatory. This book was written by a Gweilo (blond hair which really made him special, rubbing his hair for luck was done often by the Chinese) who grew up in Hong Kong/Kowloon. leeandmarylong.com /2006/03/gweilo-one-great-book-for-gweilo-from.html   (375 words)

Books : Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood - Martin Booth - Boxing UK Prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) Third is the feeling that the young Booth's Hong Kong is also largely gone - displaced by financial wealth and frenetic construction, the development of... In `Gweilo' Martin Booth describes his life in Hong Kong from 1952 to 1955. I loved roaming around with Booth through the streets of Kowloon and the Walled City - which I didn't visit until shortly before it was torn down - and the various bits of Hong Kong Island. www.saddoboxing.com /boxing-books-uk/index-item_id-0553816721-search_type-AsinSearch-locale-uk.html   (323 words)

Gweilo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) The term gweilo (foreign devil) originated many years ago with the birth of Chinese xenophobia. Appropriately, when a child throws a tantrum, his mother may call him a "barbarian devil," the same name she uses to deride a foreigner. And the tired Western joke that "all Chinese look alike" is turned around by Hong Kong's Chinese population, especially those not in regular contact with foreigners, to "all gweilo look alike." www.gojp.com /handover/gweilo.html   (142 words)

Islands Orbital First Web Edition I tend to think that same races cultural use of pejorative terms is less explosive than interracial use of similar terms. GweiLo mumble..." I don't have a point of reference for the conversation. I have resolved that the next time I'm in the MTR and am faced with a "GweiLo" conversation, I am going to fix the speaker with my best New York City stare, and try mentally to disrupt his Feng Shui. www.garfnet.org.uk /new_mill/orbital/issue001/gweilo.htm   (768 words)

The World of Lily Wong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The strip followed its eponymous protagonist, Lily Wong, a cantonese girl in Hong Kong (during its time as a British colony). Her parents, her naughty brother Rudy and her gweilo husband are often used for commenting on Hong Kong news and for comparison of East and West in terms of both culture and politics. The criticism of abuses by the People's Republic of China earned Feign prizes by Amnesty International in 1996 and 1997. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_World_of_Lily_Wong   (206 words)

Simon World :: Book Review: Gweilo Gweilo by Martin Booth Nostalgia typically doesn't translate well into book form, especially when the author's topic is himself. But Martin Booth's Gweilo is an exception to the rule. You are on the invidual archive page of Book Review: Gweilo. simonworld.mu.nu /archives/181560.php   (545 words)

FunctionalAmbivalent: Wither Gweilo? Gweilo Diaries is what got me hooked on blogs in the first place, and I have sorely missed it. Though Conrad and I disagreed politically on almost everything, he was always s decent sort to me and I had promised to go over to the Gweilo Diaries and publicly eat some Crow for him if Bush won the election. This is a troubling debt that I have not been able to discharge...lol (Damn, for all I know Conrad has some little green accounting book where he is charging me some kind of exorbitant interest at a daily rate, compounded. functionalambivalent.typepad.com /blog/2004/12/wither_gweilo.html   (808 words)

gweilodiaries.com | gweilo diaries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) Keith Devens - Weblog: The Gweilo Diaries: Miniaturization... You are on the invidual archive page of The Gweilo Diaries. Gweilo Diaries was removed because it is too strong against China. www.search-3.com /gweilodiaries_com_gweilo_diaries   (280 words)

Gaijin, Farang, Gweilo - Orient Expat Actually, l the very first time some people in Japan where referring to my friend and me always as gaijin and finally I asked what it means. Yes, gweilo has come to mean ghost person in Cantonese. As one who taught English and business communications in Asia many years, I am well aware of the significance of tone of voice, body language, social context, etc. to the precise meaning of terms. www.orientexpat.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=4468   (2730 words)

Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) An inquisitive seven-year-old, Martin Booth found himself with the whole of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was posted there in the early 1950s. Unrestricted by parental control and blessed with bright blond hair that signified good luck to the Chinese, he had free access to hidden corners of the colony normally closed to a Gweilo, a 'pale fellow' like him. Befriending rickshaw coolies and local stallholders, he learnt Cantonese, sampled delicacies such as boiled water beetles and one-hundred-year-old eggs, and participated in colourful festivals. gallery.bcentral.com /GID5145552P4754070-Adults/Bestsellers/Gweilo-Memories-of-a-Hong-Kong-Childhood.aspx   (178 words)

OrdinaryGweilo.com: Martin Booth: Gweilo Given the title, this is a book I had to read, though I have to admit I was expecting something a little different - maybe more like Liam Fitzpatrick's tales of 'Bottoms Up' perhaps. Martin Booth wrote 'Gweilo' because (just over two years ago) he was diagnosed with a brain tumour. I'm a gweilo living in Canada (my fiancee being Cantonese) and so it's really neat hearing your stories about life in Hong Kong. www.ordinarygweilo.com /2004/12/martin_booth_gw.html   (1497 words)

Philipines, Indonesia, and Malaysia are the Best - Asia Finest Discussion Forum IMO, Philipinos, Malaysians, and Indonesians are very distinct from the rest of asia, such as China, korea, and japan. The reason I ask this question is because there is a resemblance between them. In a pbs documentary I saw, some scientists took dna from several ethnic groups, especially tribal groups which haven't had much exposure to the rest of the world and traced the path of human beings from africa. www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=2286   (963 words)

The Gweilo Diaries On the rare occassions that the SCMP has something useful to say, most of their content is reproduced for free at Asia Media, helpfully linked at the right. The Gweilo Diaries, abetting the theft of intellectual property since 2002. Very sad, I've had a great deal of respect for the man but this is either base demagoguery or abject stupidity. gweilodiaries.blogspot.com /2002_09_01_gweilodiaries_archive.html   (7719 words)

Paul Humphreys's Weblog Martin followed in his mothers footsteps as we shall see. The word Gweilo means ghost in Chinese but was the name given to European males who must have resembled ghosts to the Chinese people. One of the things Martin was told by another English person who lived in Hong Kong was it was polite to eat everything that was given to him. blogs.sun.com /paulhu/entry/gweilo_martin_booth   (584 words)

Internet Ronin: A Gweilo's Viewpoint The Gweilo Diaries' Conrad does, and I am so envious that I wanted a copy on my blog. I seem to remember that Conrad said it was all right to copy his photos, provided proper credit was given. There are plenty more fabulous photos where that came from (I have linked to many before). www.internetronin.com /archives/000111.php   (209 words)

> > Compare UK book prices. Gweilo Moments: Notes From Hong Kong on Motherhood, Adoption, Mid-Life and Cats , Robin ... Gweilo Moments: Notes From Hong Kong on Motherhood, Adoption, Mid-Life and Cats, Robin Minietta. Compare book prices at Best-Book-Price.co.uk to find which UK online shop is selling your book at the cheapest price. Above is a book price comparison of "Gweilo Moments: Notes From Hong Kong on Motherhood, Adoption, Mid-Life and Cats". www.best-book-price.co.uk /compare-book-price-code-9889706172.html   (306 words)

The Gweilo Diaries Graham notes that much of the material is classified, "I think overly-classified." The obvious interpretation is that naming the country would violate the secrecy rules. TEXTING THE GWEILO: A more or less monthly feature where I reveal the most bizarre SMS (Short Message Service) messages sent to my phone since. THE GWEILO DIARIES is currently featured among the "Best of Blogs" on MSNBC's Weblog Central. www.gweilodiaries.blogspot.com /2002_12_01_gweilodiaries_archive.html   (11450 words)

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MacJams.com - Song: gweilo by Stun Nutz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) The word "gweilo" means "white devil" and is often used by Chinese to refer to westerners. My wife is Chinese and her family uses the term "fangui", meaning foreigner, but I don't think that term is as widely known. You must be registered and logged-in to comment. www.macjams.com /song/8944   (532 words)

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