Beyond the buzz over Teochew box-office hit Dear You, some Singaporeans are determined not to let dialects and heritage languages fall out of use – by teaching, documenting and speaking them.
How a Chinese film shot in dialect is finding a global audience - "Dear You," a film shot in a southern Chinese dialect, has ...
Singapore will lift screening caps on dialect films with Mandarin dubs, balancing dialect preservation with promoting ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Still from Teochew movie Dear You. Golden Village will hold eight additional screenings of Chinese film Dear You in its original ...
Four people. One letter. An ocean between them. To send a letter home from Bangkok in the 1950s, an overseas Chinese laborer needed four people: himself, a scribe to put his words on paper, a reader ...
Speaking at the National Day Rally, PM Lawrence Wong says the easing comes with the prerequisite that a Mandarin-dubbed ...
A nostalgic tale about family, hope and hardship, Dear You has swept the box office in China this summer - and opened an unexpected conversation about identity thousands of miles away in Singapore.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The film follows a man who travels to Thailand seeking his long-lost grandfather and uncovers a family secret hidden in letters ...