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HKU Chair Professor of Humanities Frank Dikötter Appointed Senior Fellow at the Prestigious Hoover Institution HKU Chair Professor of Humanities Frank Dikötter has been appointed a Senior Fellow at the Prestigious Hoover Institution with effect from September 2017. Establishe...
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18 August 2017 (Friday) – online Dr Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in the School of English, talks about the origin of the word “Praya” and how it became part of place names in Hong Kong, in her fortnightly Post Magazine column: Language Matters. “Hong Kong once had Praya Ce...
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Language Matters: Dr Lisa Lim Explores the Dramatic Evolution of Ketchup
21 July 2017 (Friday) – online Dr Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in the School of English, explores the dramatic evolution of ketchup from a preserved fish sauce to sweet tomato gloop, in her fortnightly Post Magazine column: Language Matters. “The name of the world’s favourite sa...
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6 August 2017 (Sunday) – online Dr Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in the School of English, discusses the reason of adopting English as the official and working language in Asean, in her fortnightly Post Magazine column: Language Matters. “Why the 50-year-old association, whose 10 membe...