Editorial archive,
with review on request.
Cantonese American is an educational and editorial archive built for commentary, criticism, translation, and cultural documentation.
The site exists to preserve context around scenes where Cantonese-speaking culture appears in American life. That means we may host short excerpts, link to official releases, publish transcripts, and write editorial commentary about what a scene documents and why it matters.
Copyright remains with the original rights holders. We do not claim ownership over films, television episodes, broadcast footage, or other source material discussed in the archive.
When a rights issue is raised, a scene can move into one of several states: active clip, official-link-only, removed, or hidden. The goal is to preserve the archive record even if the hosted media changes.
Editorial analysis, cultural framing, and contextual notes remain core to each archive entry.
Where possible, the archive preserves original lines, jyutping, translations, and confidence notes.
Each scene page records the work title, known credits, rights holder, and publication status.
If a clip cannot stay hosted, the entry can switch to an official link, removal notice, or hidden-media state.
Rights holders can request review or removal.
If you represent a rights holder and want an entry reviewed, corrected, link-adjusted, or removed, contact the site with the scene URL, the work involved, and the requested action.
The archive is designed so a page can remain useful to readers even after a hosting change. That means a review request does not have to erase the cultural record in order to address the media concern.
speakingamericanorg@gmail.com
Include the scene URL and the nature of the request so the archive can review it promptly.