Baak Doi

Pathé Records (Chinese: 百代唱片, Baak Doi) is the first major record company in Shanghai, China and later Hong Kong. The company was a subsidiary of the original Pathé Records conglomerate. The term "Baak Doi" is the name used in the east, with a literal translation of "Hundred Generation". This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Pathé Records was a France based international record label active from the 1890s through the 1930s. ...

History

Around the beginning of the 20th century, a young Frenchman named Labansat setup an outdoor stall on Tibet Road in Shanghai and played gramophone records to Chinese citizens who were curious. The phonograph was purchased from Moutrie and Company, and he charged anyone 10 cents to listen to a novelty record called "Laughing Foreigners" (洋人大笑)^[1]. Anyone capable of resisting any laughs or chuckles got their money back. Phonographs were becoming popular in the city in 1906^[2]. By 1908, he received help from a French engineer and an assistant from Ningbo and established "Pathé Orient" (东方百代)^[1], also known as "Pathé Asia". Though other sources point to the renaming in 1921^[2]. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Manufacturers put records inside protective and decorative cardboard jackets and an inner paper sleeve to protect the grooves from dust and scratches. ... Edison cylinder phonograph ca. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Ningbo (Simplified Chinese: 宁波; Traditional Chinese: 寧波; pinyin: Níngbō; Wade-Giles: Ning-po; literally Tranquil Waves) is a seaport sub-provincial city with a population of 800,000 in northeastern Zhejiang province, Peoples Republic of China. ...

The company initially recorded Peking Opera. Mandarin popular songs became popular, and songs were sold at stores like Wing On in Shanghai^[1]. In Beijing, September 2002 Beijing opera or Peking opera (京剧, pinyin: Jīngjù) is a kind of Chinese opera which arose in the mid-19th century and was extremely popular in the Qing dynasty court. ... Wing On(永安) is a department store in Hong Kong. ...

In 1930 Pathé's factory was taken over by Columbia Records in Shanghai, and was used to press odeon and beka with the manufacturing portion named "China Record Co. Ltd" and the distributor continued as Pathé Orient^[3]. In the same decade, Pathé went under British EMI, who were originally seeking to make profit in the Bund trying to sell gramophone records^[2]. Ren Guang became Pathé-EMI's new director and began involved with leftist music devoting to the proletarianization cause. The leftist music was eventually cut off by the Japanese military officials in 1937, who also forced the company to fire Ren^[1]. Any Japanese plants were also taken back to the (日本蓄音器株式会社)^[2]. Columbia Records is the oldest brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888, and was the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders. ... Odeon Records was a record label founded by Max Strauss and Heinrich Zunz in Berlin, Germany. ... Beka Records was a record label based in Germany, active from about 1903 to 1925. ... The EMI Group (LSE: EMI) is a British music company comprising of the major record company EMI Music which operates several labels, based in Brook Green in London, England, and EMI Music Publishing, based on Charing Cross Road, London. ... The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) Building (left), the Customs House (center), the former Bank of Communications (right) in the foreground; the Bund Center in the background The Bund (Chinese: 外灘; pinyin: Wàitān) is a district in Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China. ... It has been suggested that Childrens gramophone records be merged into this article or section. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition... Proletarianization is a concept in Marxism and Marxist sociology. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

From the late 1930s to 1940s the company held the rights to 90% of the mandopop songs^[4]. A right is the power or privilege to which one is justly entitled or a thing to which one has a just claim. ... Mandopop (or mandapop) is a colloquial abbreviation for Mandarin pop music. The term refers to C-pop in which the lyrics are in Mandarin Chinese. ...

In 1952 Baak Doi moved their operations from Shanghai to Hong Kong namely to avoid political turmoil during the transition from Republic of China to People's Republic of China. It later became Hong Kong EMI, which ended up becoming the first cantopop record company. 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Republic of China is commonly known as Taiwan or Chinese Taipei, and it is not to be confused with the Peoples Republic of China. ... The EMI Group (LSE: EMI) is a British music company comprising of the major record company EMI Music which operates several labels, based in Brook Green in London, England, and EMI Music Publishing, based on Charing Cross Road, London. ... Cantopop (Chinese: 粵語流行曲) is a colloquial abbreviation for Cantonese popular music. It is also referred to as HK-pop, short for Hong Kong popular music. It is categorized as a subgenre of Chinese popular music within C-pop. ...

See also

• Pathé Records
• Cantopop
• Music of China
• Music of Hong Kong

Pathé Records was a France based international record label active from the 1890s through the 1930s. ... Cantopop (Chinese: 粵語流行曲) is a colloquial abbreviation for Cantonese popular music. It is also referred to as HK-pop, short for Hong Kong popular music. It is categorized as a subgenre of Chinese popular music within C-pop. ... Music of China appears to date back to the dawn of Chinese civilization, and documents and artifacts provide evidence of a well-developed musical culture as early as the Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC). ... Hong Kong is a part of China that has produced a number of popular traditions, including a large part of what is known as Cantopop. ...

External links

• Hong Kong EMI

References