Cultural Dynamics and Ethics in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong Xiaojue Wang Rutgers University Voice of the Chinese Dream in post-pandemic popular culture Voices through the Years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYC1cgutMSM In the Mood for Love Dir. Wong Kar-wai, 2000 In the Mood for Love Mr. Chan requests Zhou Xuan’s ”Blooming Years” on the radio for his wife on her birthday. Clip: radio music show https://youtu.be/9E1SkCF-wrU Mr. Chow (Tony Leung) and Mrs. Chan (Maggie Cheung) Zhou Xuan (1920-1957) Wong Kar-wai “Postwar Hong Kong was an era of radio.” Interview in Southern Metropolis Daily (Nanfang dushibao), 2002. Radio Hong Kong Radio Rediffusion In 1949, Radio Rediffusion (RDF) was launched in Hong Kong as a branch station of British Rediffusion broadcasting company Hong Kong Comme rcial Radio In 1959, Hong Kong Commercial Radio (CRHK) began broadcasting Vacuum tube radio set 1950s, Hong Kong news, current affairs, “sky fiction” (airwaves novels), radio drama, and a variety of music programs Radio Rediffusion (RDF) in Singapore 3688 Royston Tan, 2015 Radio Rediffusion Singapore Lee Dai Soh (1913-1989) popular Singapore storyteller Li Wo and the sky fiction May Flowe rs in the Rain directed Qin Jian, 1960 November 27, 1956 Rediffusion Zhang Ailing (Eileen Chang 1920-1995) grew up in the Shanghai International Settlement attended Hong Kong University in early 1940s contributed to Shanghai English language journals (The Twentieth Century), writing film reviews moved from the mainland to Hong Kong in 1952 moved to the US in 1955 and lived a reclusive life, until her death in 1995 Romances 1944 Written on water 1944 “the best and most important writer in Chinese today” C. T .Hsia, A His to ry of Mode rn Chine s e Fiction 1917–1957 (Indiana University Press; Third edition, 1999) Long Live the Missis 1947 Father Takes a Bride 1963 The Greatest Wedding on Earth,1962 dir. Wang Tianlin; scree nwrite r, Eilee n Chang The Greatest Wedding on Earth,1962 Listening to the radio show Peiming working at the typewriter mother vs. radio as the mediator Peiming on the phone Radio, Media, Cultural Dynamics.