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	Using Chinese dot Com - Learn Mandarin Chinese Online for Free with this Learning Tool.
		Mandarin (Traditional Chinese: 官話; Simplified Chinese: 官话, pinyin: Guānhuà; literally "speech of officials"), or Beifanghua (Simplified Chinese: 北方话; Traditional Chinese: 北方話; pinyin: Běifānghuà; literally "Northern Dialect(s)"), is a category of related Chinese dialects spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.
		The presence of Mandarin in southwest China is largely due to a plague in the 12th century in Sichuan.
		This situation changed with the widespread introduction of Standard Mandarin as the national language, to be used in education, the media, and formal situations in both the PRC and the ROC (but not in Hong Kong).
	mandarin.usingchinese.com (793 words)

	Pop music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pop music is often defined as music produced commercially, for profit, or "as a matter of enterprise not art" though it may more usefully be defined by market, ideology, production, and aesthetics.
		Pop music is a music genre which began in the 1950s, and is music that is generally popular to a wide range of people.
		Pop music is characterised by a heavy rhythmic element, and often with the use of electronic amplification, while the melody line may also be dominant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pop_music (1786 words)

	Mandarin pop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pop in Taiwanese language is composed of artists predominantly from Taiwan, although one artist, Eric Moo, is from Malaysia.
		Taiwanese language pop as well as some of the Mandarin pop resembles and is influenced by the Japanese enka style of music, which is equivalent to Country Music.
		Mandarin, Cantopop, and Taiwanese language pop are available to overseas Chinese and Taiwanese communities such as San Francisco Bay Area, Greater Los Angeles/Orange County Metropolitan Areas, and communities such as Flushing in the New York City Metropolitan Area in the United States, and Vancouver, BC and Toronto Metropolitan Areas in Canada.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mandarin_pop (351 words)

	ipedia.com: Music of Taiwan Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		With the arrival of the KMT government in 1949, native Taiwanese culture was suppressed, and Mandarin, as the official language of the Republic of China, was promoted.
		Taiwanese pop was sung in a native dialect and was popular among older and working-class listeners; it was strongly influenced by Japanese enka.
		In contrast, Mandarin pop appealed to younger listeners and was greatly aided by the state support of the Mandarin language.
	www.ipedia.com /music_of_taiwan.html (725 words)

	Online International Radio Station - Live365 Internet Radio - Mandarin Radio
		Mandarin Radio plays modern music of Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong & China.
		Sometimes it's like lounge acts on steroids, other times it has an innocence and vulnerability that Western rock is too scared to show.
		A selection of the hottest Korean Pop (KPOP).
	www.live365.com /stations/mandarinradio (207 words)

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		Mandarin is the brightest star in North Texas, incandescent and piercing in the vast night sky.
		Exuding a sometimes woozy, often quietly sinister vibe a la Pseudosix or Red Red Meat, Mandarin’s songs evolve and expand naturally, like the best of Yo La Tengo’s or Bedhead’s, enveloping the listener with their engrossing mood and textures.
		Mandarin’s innate pop sensibility recalls vintage Pixies, which smoothens the complexity of their arrangements to coalesce their songs into progressive, singular, contemporary pop music.
	www.fiftyfourfortyorfight.com /5440_html/man_merch_frame.html (110 words)

	Rhythm - the Online Magazine to HKVP Radio
		Cantonese pop music, also referred to as ‘Cantopop’, was a phenomenon that emerged during the 1970s in Hong Kong.
		He began with groups singing western pop hits, but after he went solo in 1974, he almost single-handedly created the Cantopop craze with his treasure chest of musical talents which included composing music, writing lyrics, playing his own guitar accompaniments and singing his own songs.
		Her early career consisted mostly of Mandarin hits and contemporary Cantonese opera, but as Cantopop evolved, her collaborations with the likes of Joseph Koo, Wong Jim and other renowned composers and songwriters of the time helped her became a major force in the industry.
	www.hkvpradio.com /rhythm/music/features/20030728_70s.php (1687 words)

	ASIAN MUSIC POP
		The music is still essentially main-stream pop but they sound different mainly due to the live-band arrangement, thereby giving more edge and bass to the songs.
		However his last two Mandarin albums with What's Music contained mostly ballads because this is what listeners like to hear from him, judging by the good sales figures garnered from these two albums.
		While it's true that they are easy-listening pop, however they are the type of so-called "safe" mainstream pop songs which lack the "oomph" to leave a deep impression.
	www.geocities.com /musiclife8813/intromandarinalbumpast2.htm (3968 words)

	Cpop - Chinese, Taiwanese and Hong Kong (HK) Pop Music and Video Forum and Download site with free chinese music mp3
		We hope that you will be willing to support us in our quest to bring the best of Chinese, Taiwanese and HK pop music to you, the music fans.
		We also have a Chinese, Taiwanese and HK pop music community forum, which will enable fans of Cpop to discuss and share their music.
		Our Chinese music pop site is now the largest in the world, and it is thanks to our Chinese, Taiwanese and HK Cpop Music fans that have made this possible.
	www.cpopmusic.co.uk (670 words)

	phorum - Chinese Culture Forum at Asiawind - Cantopop fades fades away
		This is a far cry from the 70 per cent heard at such clubs here when Cantonese pop songs had their heyday in the 1980s through to the early 1990s, he says.
		Non-Mandarin pop and drama serials have been off-limits on radio and free-to-air television since 1982, three years after the Speak Mandarin Campaign was launched.
		Finally, industry players say the rise of Mandarin pop is a natural result of the opening up of China and the handing back of Hongkong.
	www.asiawind.com /forums/read.php?f=2&i=1482&t=1482&v=t (1381 words)

	Asian American Empowerment: ModelMinority.com - Mandarin Use Up in Chinese American Communities
		Members of Chinatown's venerable Cantonese family associations have taken to warbling Mandarin pop songs at banquets, accompanied by karaoke machines, and showing off their Mandarin in speeches before Chinese government officials, Pak said.
		And though the written Chinese language can be read by both Mandarin and Cantonese speakers, Chinese-language newspaper Sing Tao Daily has been trying to weed out Cantonese slang from its reports to appeal to more Mandarin speakers, said Tim Lau, vice president of the paper's western edition.
		Some say Cantonese and Mandarin speakers tend to stick to their own groups, which are defined by language as well as class.
	www.modelminority.com /printout636.html (1020 words)

	Mandarin Athletic Association Jacksonville Pop Warner Cheerleading - Competitive and Instructional Cheer Registration ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Mandarin Athletic Association - MAA is one of Jacksonville's oldest and most "winning" pop warner youth athletic associations.
		SPECIAL NOTE: This year (2006 Season) POP WARNER is requiring that all cheerleaders complete their physicals using the POP WARNER physical form.
		Be absolutely sure to use only the POP WARNER physical form if you elect to have your family physician perform your child's physical.
	www.letsgomaa.org /cheerreg.htm (596 words)

	China Books and Periodicals, Inc.
		POP MANDARIN is loaded with nearly 1,000 phrases (including both pinyin and simplified characters for each sentence) designed to equip students with a vocabulary to converse with hip, cosmopolitan, and cutting-edge ideas that go beyond any other Chinese phrasebook.
		POP MANDARIN: A Modern Chinese Phrasebook from Feng Shui to Wall Street is an enlightened volume that will ratchet up your Mandarin language proficiency, spark cross-cultural conversations, and take the words of the ancients full-circle into today's hot topics.
		Janey Chen is a long-standing language and cultural educator/author of Mandarin and Cantonese for over 50 years, with multiple teaching and administration assignments at the Taipei Language Institute in Taiwan, Chinese University in Hong Kong and Hong Kong Language Institute (HKLI).
	www.chinabooks.com /cart/about_us.php?section=poma (426 words)

	Variety: Mandarin mines pop star talent.(Hong Kong)(Mandarin Films )(Brief Article)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		HONG KONG Mandarin Films has begun shooting two features, both slated for release in the first half of 2004.
		The HK$4.5 million ($580,000) pic, helmed by Her man Yau, is about friends who are invited to a mysterious reunion--and the horror that ensues at the get-together:
		Black," is a comedy starring pop star Jordan Chan and directed by Simon Loui.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:111856519&refid=ink_tptd_mag (211 words)

	MandarinRadio.com brings Chinese Pop Music to International Audience
		San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) March 23, 2005 -- It has been only three months since Mandarin Radio (www.mandarinradio.com) was launched on the Live365 Internet Radio Network (www.live365.com), and already it has 13,000 listeners and ranks #9 among Asian stations.
		In addition to playing Mandarin songs from artists such as Jay Chou, A-Mei Chang, S.H.E., David Tao, Sun Yanzi, Elva Hsiao and Jolin Tsai, Mandarin Radio listeners also hear a few Asian songs that are so popular they have crossed over national boundaries.
		Mandarin Radio is a sister station of www.PopGoesAsia.com
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2005/3/prweb220217.htm (325 words)

	Why do people in HK speak...... - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		I read somewhere that the first evidence of Mandarin usage was in Northern China sometime during the later Yuan years.
		According to my swedish friends who are studying mandarin, mandarin is far more easier for western people to prounonce than cantonese.
		And it is also easier to read mandarin, simply because of the reason that you can't actually "write" cantonese like in the way you talk.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=32721 (1003 words)

	'Chinese' means Mandarin in U.S. - The Washington Times: Culture, etc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A Mandarin pop singer belts out a love song over a sidewalk speaker, and a man greets her with "Ni hao," Mandarin for "Hello."
		A survey last year showed the divide narrowing to 53 percent Cantonese and 47 percent Mandarin, according to a study for KTSF, a TV station that devotes most of its programming to Asian-language shows.
		Now, members of Chinatown's venerable Cantonese family associations have taken to warbling Mandarin pop songs at banquets, accompanied by karaoke machines, and showing off their Mandarin in speeches before Chinese government officials, Miss Pak said.
	www.washtimes.com /culture/20031228-111414-7034r.htm (548 words)

	Mandarin pop \| Ask MetaFilter
		In a couple weeks I'll be going on vacation to a city where I should be able to pick up some CDs of pop music in Mandarin.
		Wang2 Fei1, who appeared in a couple of Kar Wai Wong movies, is a good singer, but a lot of her CDs are in both Mandarin and Cantonese.
		I find it interesting that when you listen to singing in Mandarin that tones are most often discarded for the sake of the song tune.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/20071 (521 words)

	Comments
		Coming back to Candy Lo for example, her Mandarin name (Qiaoyin) literally means "well-crafted sound" or "chimeric sound" whichever way you want to translate "qiao3".
		Her Chinese name might be just an alias or whatever you call it, but believe it or not it's "Yin1 Yue4".
		Granted that "melody" should be better referred to as "xuan2 luu4", but that's enough to make her a real champion in name.
	tausarpiah.blogdrive.com /comments?id=9 (309 words)

	History of Taiwanese Pop Songs 7/02 - English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It is often said, "If you want to understand the events of an era, then listen to the lyrics of the time." Passed down and sung from generation to generation, Taiwanese pop songs bear witness to the island's social evolution, and describe the happiness and sadness of everyday life.
		To trace the origins of Taiwanese pop music, the place to start is 1932, the thirty-seventh year of Japan's colonial rule over Taiwan.
		The period from 1932 to 1940, which marked the beginning of the Kominka Movement (or "Japanization Movement," in which Japan granted Japanese citizenship to the Taiwanese and sought to turn them into loyal subjects of the emperor), is remembered as a golden era of Taiwanese music.
	home.comcast.net /~tzeng2/TaiwanPopSongs/in_english.htm (5777 words)

	JonnyBlu.com > Bio
		He not only sings in Mandarin (and English), but he writes his own lyrics (in Chinese) and co-produces his music.
		His style is a classic mix of RandB and western pop, blended with a Mandarin pop feel.
		His favorite songs to write are simple and unadorned love ballads, but don’t count out his love for performing energetic pop and hip-hop rhythms.
	www.jonnyblu.com /bio (339 words)

	Asia Pacific Arts Online Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A few years ago, Coco Lee, one of Asia's top songstresses, tried it and failed despite the fact that she was raised in San Francisco.
		Sun is a relatively new face to the Mandarin pop music scene, but she is quickly becoming one of Asia's top performers.
		Then, when Sun got serious about a music career, the Singaporean had to learn Mandarin practically word for word to record her debut pop album.
	www.asiaarts.ucla.edu /110703/sun.html (480 words)

	Music of Taiwan - Chinese Music - Chinese Art
		With the arrival of the KMT government in 1949, native Taiwanese culture was suppressed, and Mandarin languageMandarin, as the official language of the Republic of China, was promoted.
		The Bunun Cultural and Educational Foundation, founded in 1995, was the first organization established to help promote and sustain Taiwanese aboriginal culture.
		The 1990s and early 2000s also saw the emerge of so-called "underground" bands and artists of diverse styles, such as LTK Commune, Labor Exchange Band, Chairman, Dog G, Anarchism (band)Anarchism, Clippers, ChthoniC.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Music_of_Taiwan (935 words)

	mandarin song
		The lyrics are probably the strongest part of the song, a little bit of the same feel of the lyrics on Yan Zi's stuff (that's a good thing).
		The music is very typical of current Mandarin and Canto pop music, which I don't personally find terribly interesting - but this is a personal preference.
		On its own terms (that is, as Mandarin/Taiwan pop), the music is quite good and at the level of a lot of pro songs out there.
	forum.cakewalk.com /tm.asp?m=421619 (921 words)

	MTV to Launch Chinese American Edition \| Asian American Intelligence \| GoldSea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It mirrors and celebrates the unique perspective of this rapidly growing part of the American population." MTV Chi will be a music-centric pop culture destination that will showcase Mandarin rock and pop, Canto-pop, Chinese hip-hop and other genres of music to American audiences.
		Original programming to be featured on MTV Chi will include the Top 10 Chi Countdown, a viewer-voted countdown of music from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the United States; "Maximum Chi," a show that taps into the energetic Chinese party scene; and Live From, an insider perspective on the hottest and most relevant neighborhoods.
		MTV Chi will be the second MTV channel launched by MTV World this year, each designed to super-serve ethnic populations in the United States.
	goldsea.com /Asiagate/512/06mtv.html (618 words)

	eBay - estee lauder pop, Makeup, Health Beauty items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Estee Lauder Pure Color Crystal Gloss Mandarin Pop NIB
		Estee Lauder PURE POPS Lip Gloss Gloss Pop FIZZY PEAR
		NIB Estee Lauder Pure Color Lipstick Mandarin Pop
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=estee+lauder+pop&... (700 words)

	Kpop Korean Music Entertainment Website - For Kpop Videos, MP3 Fan Club
		Criminal copyright infringement, including infringement without monetary gain, is investigated and is punishable by up to 5 years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000.
		Our Korean music pop site is now the largest in the world, and it is thanks to our Kpop Korean Music fans that has made this all possible.
		We endeavour to improve upon any feasible suggestion provided to us and over the years we have been operating, a majority of the suggestions given to us have been implemented into the site you see today.
	www.kpopmusic.co.uk (448 words)

	Asia Times
		If that doesn't matter much to you, then chances are fairly good that you are not a big fan of Mandarin pop music.
		The theory is fairly solid: Taiwan can no longer compete in labor-intensive industries, and therefore must move into such cutting-edge, niche industries in order to exploit its geographic position, cultural affinities with China, and highly educated and hard-working population.
		All of which, at first glance, might seem to have little in common with lip-synching pop divas or blow-dried boy bands.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China/DK01Ad04.html (1293 words)

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