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Cantonese is said to be closer than Mandarin to ancient Chinese. It is also more complicated. Mandarin has four tones, so a character can be intonated four ways with four meanings.

Highlights include excerpts from Chinese operas Princess Cheung Ping and The Legend of the Purple Hairpin by librettist Tong Tik-sang, and the martial arts piece Fan Lihua Battles Wang Yinglong.

Cantonese has nine, which can be difficult to differentiate. Meanwhile, independent Chinese schools are helping fill the void as Cantonese-speaking communities grow — and not just in Chinatowns.

In Cantonese this liveliness is called ‘yeet lau.’ It can’t really be translated, but yeet lau is the one thing we can’t have right now that’s so central to Chinese New Year’s ...

That Cantonese could follow suit can seem alarmist, bordering on ridiculous. About 90% of Hong Kongers – some 6.8 million people – speak it as their first language, ...

When her Cantonese-speaking patients at San Francisco General Hospital see her walk in, Quon said, they breathe a “huge sigh of relief.” Cantonese, a regional Chinese language spoken by over 80 ...

The number of Cantonese speakers is actually around 80 million worldwide, including people from China's Southeastern province of Guangdong where it originated (both the province and its capital ...