"Sinophonic" meaning in English

See Sinophonic in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: Sino- + -phonic Etymology templates: {{confix|en|Sino|phonic}} Sino- + -phonic Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} Sinophonic (not comparable)
  1. Pertaining to Chinese languages and speakers of Chinese. Tags: not-comparable

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          "ref": "2013, Howard Chiang, Ari Larissa Heinrich, Queer Sinophone Cultures, page 86",
          "text": "This particular interpretation of the Shaw Brothers' “Chinese dream” as strategic—both commercial and ideological—reinvention is why, in this chapter, I frame the Shaw Brothers' cinema as a Sinophonic rather than a diasporic production.",
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          "ref": "2015, Wu Guoguang, Paradoxes Of China's Prosperity",
          "text": "Overall, this article attempts to call for attention to the intellectual and practical importance of the study of Chinese politics in China's nation-building, identity search, and modernity, and to stimulate the discussion of the state of this scholarship for the purpose of developing the study of Chinese politics in the Sinophonic world.",
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          "ref": "2015, Brian Bergen-Aurand, Mary Mazzilli, Hee Wai-Siam, Transnational Chinese Cinema",
          "text": "Taken as an integral cinematic experience, what we are seeing is, in one way, a brief episode from the everyday life of a Singaporean family conversing in a hybridized Sinophonic tongue and, in another way, fictitious life stories being received visually and aurally by a Siniticate community of people who are being affected by the acts and speech-acts on screen.",
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