East Asian Languages in Music and Film

Hearing the languages of Eastern Asia

A listening and viewing list to accompany Languages in Eastern Asia, a guest lecture for LIN 106 Languages of the World. Each entry is labeled with the language or languages you can hear in it.

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Music

Tibetan

སྐོར་ལམ་གྱི་ཤན་པ། 转经道上的屠夫 Butcher on the Barkor Street

The Tibetan Patient 西藏病人 · 2017 · folk

Mandarin

冀西南林路行 Inside the Cable Temple

Omnipotent Youth Society 万能青年旅店 · 2020 · album · jazz jam, rock, folk

Hakka

阿民 A Min

Jiulian Zhenren 九连真人 · 2020 · rock

A Taiwanese Indigenous language

Isahini

LÜCY · indie folk

Film

Tibetan

A Little Wisdom

Yuqi Kang · 2017

Taiwan Mandarin

牯嶺街少年殺人事件 A Brighter Summer Day

Edward Yang 楊德昌 · 1991

Jin and Anyang Mandarin

小武 Xiao Wu

Jia Zhangke 贾樟柯 · 1997

Cantonese

重慶森林 Chungking Express

Wong Kar-wai 王家衛 · 1994

Shanghai Wu and Modern Standard Chinese

爱情神话 B for Busy

Shao Yihui 邵艺辉 · 2021

Related: Languages in Eastern Asia (lecture slides) · Writing Chinese Languages

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