Chimerica • Acccent & Language

resources for RMTC's production by Eric Armstrong

Mandarin Accented English


Chen Kaige talks about his film Sacrifice. Chen was born and raised in Beijing, and is one of the top "Fifth Generation" film directors in China, winning the Palme d'Or for Farewell My Concubine in 1993. (Chen starts to speak at 0:38)


Joanne Cheng is a documentary film maker and professor at NYIT. She has a very "mild" Beijing accent—suitable for characters speaking English-as-Mandarin. (Cheng begins to speak at 0:16)