Ms Tai Ming Wai Amy, an English Studies and Music double major who graduated from the University of Hong Kong with First Class Honours in 2016, has been named Global Winner in the category of Art History, Music, Film and Theatre by the Undergraduate Awards 2016. Ms Tang Siu Hang Winnie, a History and Chinese History and Culture double major, was named Regional Winner, Asia, in the History category, and Ms Eva Ng, a General Linguistics major, was named Regional Winner, Asia, in the Languages and Linguistics category in the 2016 Awards.

Ms Tai was named Global Winner for her paper, entitled “From ‘Delightful’ to ‘Barbarous’: The Decline in Canonic Writing and the Rise of Functional Harmony”, which she wrote under the supervision of Dr Youn Kim from the Department of Music. Ms Tai was also named Regional Winner, Asia, for her paper, “Disguise, Performance, and the Theater in Paradise Lost”, in the category of Literature: English. As a Global Winner, Ms Tai is invited to attend the UA Global Summit in Dublin, Ireland, with all travel expenses covered. Her winning paper will also be published in the Undergraduate Awards’ annual academic journal, The Undergraduate Journal.

Ms Tang was recognized for her paper, entitled “The End of Anti-Suffrage Movement in Britain: the Failure of the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage in 1910-1913”, which she wrote for the capstone course HIST4028 History Without Borders under the supervision of Professor David Pomfret. Ms Ng was recognized for her paper, entitled “Vocal Attractiveness in Cantonese: A Production Study”, which she wrote for the course LING2012 Experimental Phonetics under the supervision of Dr Albert Lee.

Two further Arts students had their papers “highly commended” in the 2016 Awards. Mr Li Ka Chi, a Music major, was highly commended for two papers: “Breathing the Air of Free Will: Creating Topics and Form in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony”, and “Zarlino, Anamorphosis, and Cinquecento Italy”. Mr Chan Wai Chi William, an English Studies and Translation double major, was highly commended for his paper, entitled “Ezra Pound’s The Cantos: An Experimental History Collage”, written under the supervision of Dr Otto Heim.

The Undergraduate Awards, first established in 2009, aims to celebrate and support the world’s brightest and most innovative undergraduate students by recognizing their best coursework and projects. This year’s awardees were selected from among 5,514 submissions from students in 244 institutions across 40 countries.

Highly Commended Entrants are students whose papers have made it into to the top 10% of all submissions in their particular field. They are shortlisted for the awards of Regional Winner and Global Winner – the top regional and overall performers in each of the Undergraduate Awards’ 25 categories, and are given the opportunity to attend the Undergraduate Awards Global Summit in November, a four-day long networking and brainstorming event which brings together students from all over the world. (http://www.undergraduateawards.com/)

For media enquiries, please contact Ms Eva Yung, Faculty of Arts (tel: 3917 4633 email: evaffy@hku.hk).