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Waning Interest In Nightlife—Our Past Glory And What Are The Challenges Of The Night-time Economy In Hong Kong?
12-09-23 Some said, “I am all about nightlife. I live during the night.” Some said, “In nightlife, you can become a star. While in the daytime, you can be a nobody.” Some said, “I don’t like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people.” A clothes vendor in the well-known Temple…
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The 94-year-old Yueju Music Master Choo Heng-cheong: Hong Kong & Yueju Are Just The Same—Great People Should Move Beautifully Together To Accommodate Each Other
The 94-year-old Yueju Music Master Choo Heng-cheong: Hong Kong & Yueju Are Just The Same—Great People Should Move Beautifully Together To Accommodate Each Other
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‘Godmother’ Olivia Yan Offers One last Defence Of Theatre Practitioners Against The Waves Of COVID & Technology: Embrace!
07-10-21 Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot: Hong Kong had social commotion in 2019, COVID-19 in 2021 and will face economic downturn. Bad situations are like an amorphous mass of mud. Local theatres were devastatingly forced to close again and again. The ‘Godmother’ of theatrical circles Olivia Yan(甄詠蓓)said, “We are down. But, we…
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When A Legend Is Gone, Stories Stay—Music Leader Eddie Chiu Reveals The Myth Of The Godfather Of Hong Kong Pop: Roman Tam
15-12-20 Cantonese Opera dominated the music scene of Hong Kong in the 50s. In the 60s, ‘Cantonese film songs’ sung by popular movie stars replaced the trend, but these pieces were usually old-style and insipid. The glorious days of modern Hong Kong Pop took place in the 1970s when some upbeat and contemporary singers made…
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The Swot Analysis Of Hong Kong Performing Arts Going Across & Abroad
09-08-20 Hong Kong is small: we have 1,106 sq. km of land and there are more mountains than surrounding flat lands. The population is about 7.5 million. The Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office reported that there are over 1,000 performing art groups in Hong Kong, staging as many as 8,000 performing art shows every year and…
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MUSETTE TSANG——THE GIRL WHO IS ABLE TO EXPORT A HONG KONG PLAY TO 12 OVERSEAS CITIES
1-1-2020 By definition, exports are a function of international exchange whereby products made in one place are shipped to another place for consumption. Exports are a crucial component of a place’s economy as such exports add to producing wealth. Why can’t the above definition be applied to Hong Kong’s art and culture? In fact, we…
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“WHATEVER I CHANGE, I CHANGE IT TO FURTHER BUT NOT DESTROY OUR HONG KONG HERITAGE”—ASPIRING YOUNG CANTONESE OPERA YOUNG STAR LAI YIU WAI, KEITH
22-10-19 Why do we change a performing art form? There may be 4 reasons. Some believe that the test of a top artist lies in the excellence of the work that he produces. Change from a to b by an artist can mean artistic excellence. When an art form is declining and very little appetite…
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Edward Li’s Trump On Show―the confounding Cantonese opera in which Donald Trump can sing Chinese
01-05-19 Edward Li Kui Ming is a legendary and astonishing personality in the performing business of Hong Kong. His initial career was an administrator and scriptwriter with a movie company. In the late 80s, he transformed himself into an expert in numerology and fengshui. Few years ago, he leased an old theatre Sunbeam Theatre in…