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Language Matters: Dr Lisa Lim Talks About Why it is Hard to Argue There is One Chinese Language
29 September 2017 (Friday) – online Dr Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in the School of English, talks about why it is hard to argue there is one Chinese Language, in her fortnightly Post Magazine column: Language Matters. “To a linguist ‘the Chinese language’ is a family of ...
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15 September 2017 (Friday) – online Dr Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in the School of English, talks about the origin of the word “gweilo” and other names East Asians have for foreigners, in her fortnightly Post Magazine column: Language Matters. “Once considered offensive,...
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文學院傳媒報道:港大推翻譯App 含7700中英時事詞彙潮語
明報 港聞 24-09-2017 近日社會熱論「殺無赦」風波,但究竟「殺無赦」英文是什麼?香港大學助理教授吳雅珊及團隊兩年前建立「傳譯資源網」,收錄過去10多年7700多條中英雙語時事詞彙,以及中英對照的潮語和俗語,團隊...
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New App Is a Vital Resource for Interpreting in English and Chinese
New App Is a Vital Resource for Interpreting in English and Chinese A new app developed by Dr Eva Ng, an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts’ School of Chinese, is now available to download on both iOS and Android platforms. The free app, named ‘Newssary’ – a combin...
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HKU Excels in the Times Higher Education World University Arts and Humanities' Subject Rankings
The University of Hong Kong Excels in the Times Higher Education World University Arts and Humanities’ Subject Rankings 2017-2018 The University of Hong Kong has risen a further two places to 28th in the world in Arts and Humanities in the Times Higher Education World University Subject Ran...
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HKU Professor of History David Pomfret Awarded the 2016 Grace Abbott Book Prize
HKU Professor of History David Pomfret Awarded the 2016 Grace Abbott Book Prize HKU Professor David Pomfret has been awarded the 2016 Grace Abbott Book Prize for his book Youth and Empire: Trans-Colonial Childhoods in British and French Asia, published in 2016 by Stanford University Press. The Grac...
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Language Matters: Dr Lisa Lim Talks about the Origin of the Word “typhoon”
1 September 2017 (Friday) – online Dr Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in the School of English, talks about the origin of the word “typhoon”, in her fortnightly Post Magazine column: Language Matters. “A closer look shows ‘typhoon’ may not have originated from Chi...