Richard Ng (Miracles, Winners and Sinners) has been in the UK working on a series there called River City. Rich Cooper just finished interviewing him on the set and says that the interview (and it's a LONG one) will be published in December's Jade Screen! He looks great!
Ah, Richard will constantly be one of my favourite performers as he always makes me smile and laugh. Fine dramatic actor as well. If you get a chance, watch him in David Chiang's Wrong Couples (also starring Josephine Siao).
Richard Ng (Miracles, Winners and Sinners) has been in the UK working on a series there called River City. Rich Cooper just finished interviewing him on the set and says that the interview (and it's a LONG one) will be published in December's Jade Screen! He looks great!
I know a few people who work on the show, River City is pish though! Richard NG for teh win!
Toge wrote:Ng is Cantonese, Woo/Wu is Mandarin. That is why John Woo's name in Canto is Ng See Hon (if I remember correctly)
Toge, you're Chinese right? You should know better.
Richard Ng
吳耀漢
Ng Yiu Hon (Cantonese)
Wu Yao Han (Mandarin)
John Woo
吳宇森
Ng Yue Sam (Cantonese)
Wu Yu Shen (Mandarin)
吳 = Ng/Wu
'Woo' is a Cantonese name belonging to many different characters which in Mandarin would be 'Wu'. But not the 吳 character relevant to either of the above names. 吳 is not known as 'Woo'. So Richard Woo and John Woo are both technically incorrect. John Wu or John Ng would be accurate.
Examples of characters that would be 'Woo' 嗚 護 湖 -- there's plenty more
I kinda like wade-giles for some reason... prefer it to Pinyin. I think it's because all the old Kung Fu movie uses WG for Mandarin names.
There are as you say many variations in romanization, but AFAIK 'Woo' for 吳 isn't one of them. Until 'Richard Woo' (which I expect he changed assuming everyone would mispronounce 'Ng') John Woo was the only one. And even then in his formative years it was (correctly) 'Wu'.
I did a little further checking and have found that occasionally 吳 is listed as 'Woo' but not very often. 9/10 it is 'Ng' which is presumably why I've never seen it as 'Woo' before. So I guess the option is there to use 'Woo' even though it isn't the norm. I stand corrected.
Yeah, for HK-Mandarin films before 1986 and all Taiwanese films I use Wade-Giles as that was/is the norm, and for post 1985 HK-Mandarin and all Mainland films I use Pinyin.
For all Cantonese films I use the HK Government Romanization (roughly). A lot of times you see either Yale or Jyutping as recommended by the Linguistic Society. I don't particularly like these, however.
