C-pop

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From C- (Chinese) +‎ pop, by analogy with J-pop.

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C-pop (uncountable)

  1. (music) Chinese pop music influenced by western genres.
    • 2024 January 20, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “An Asian megastar who fills arenas in Europe–so who is he?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 14:
      Mandopop and its Cantonese equivalent, Cantopop, are subsets of Chinese pop, or C-pop, whose roots stretch back almost 100 years.

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