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11-03-2026 : Hamlet at HKU: A Dialogue with Dr. Kristen Murray and Ms. Linda Wu<\/a><\/h4>\n\nby Joshua Lee and Fan Yang\n\n\n\nIn December 2025, the School of English successfully organized a live production of Hamlet\u200b\u200b by our students (MAES, MACC & MFA). Lasting 3 days and supported by a crew comprising 45 actors and 42 designers, the production was highly successful and well attended. On 22nd January 2026, we were honoured to a...\n
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17-07-2025 : Interview with Dr. Antony Huen<\/a><\/h4>\n\nWe\u2019re very lucky to have you as our new Director of the MFA programme in Creative Writing. Before joining the School, you\u2019ve also taught at many other institutions. How do you think the MFA programme stands out as a postgraduate course in Hong Kong, and what do you envision for its future?\n\n\n\nThank you for your kind words, Vincent. It is my ho...\n
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17-06-2025 : Interview with Dr. Jasper Wu<\/a><\/h4>\n\nIt\u2019s so exciting to have you back in the School of English! You recently completed your PhD at the National University of Singapore. How was your experience there (and in Singapore) compared to the School of English?\n\n\n\nThe comparison, I would say, is more of a temporal instead of a spatial difference.\n\n\n\nI started my PhD in 2020, which was righ...\n
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12-05-2025 : In Loving Memory of Professor Harshana Rambukwella<\/a><\/h4>\n\nby Professor Elaine Yee Lin Ho\n\n\n\nProfessor Harshana Rambukwella\n\n\n\nPh.D. Graduate and Honorary Assistant Professor\n\n\n\nSchool of English\n\n\n\nHKU\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt was with great sadness that I heard the news of Harshana\u2019s recent death on Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 49. He was one of my last graduate students before retirement, whose doctoral th...\n
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24-04-2025 : Tails and Trails: A short story<\/a><\/h4>\n\nBy Wang Yilian\n\n\n\nWang Yilian is currently a student in the MA in English Studies programme at The University of Hong Kong. She has always been passionate about literature, and during the Travel Writing and Culture course, she has been inspired to think more deeply about its various elements. Yilian has written the following short story, Tail...\n
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24-04-2025 : Interview with Zeekin Zhou<\/a><\/h4>\n\nBy Dr. Vincent Pak\n\n\n\nWhy did you choose the MAES programme for graduate school? How did your experience at the School of English compare to your expectations when you first started?\n\n\n\nMy undergraduate academic focus was language pedagogy and TESOL, but upon graduation, I realised that I lacked knowledge of how language is used and perceived by s...\n
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03-05-2024 : Interview with Qiaona Jiang<\/a><\/h4>\n\nBy Ruyu Yan\n\n\n\nBetween Shanghai and Hong Kong, photo by Qiao Na\n\n\n\nQiaona Jiang is a second-year PhD candidate. Her research focuses on the gatekeeping requirements of mainland Chinese MBA admission interviews. Drawing on her previous experience as an MBA admission interview trainer in Shanghai, she has developed a keen insight into the intricate ...\n
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03-05-2024 : Interview with Dr. Otto Heim: Part Two<\/a><\/h4>\n\nBy Khadija Azhar and Luisa Wan\n\n\n\nThis is part two of our interview with Dr. Otto Heim, the Director of the Master of Arts in English Studies programme at HKU. Previously, we discussed Dr. Heim\u2019s extensive academic career and his thoughts on teaching. As he spoke about the extensive reading that go into his lecture preparations, it became gradua...\n
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03-05-2024 : The Third International Conference of MSIA: \u201cModernism between Past and Future\u201d<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\nBy Jisu Bang\n\n\n\nThe Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA) is currently organizing its third international conference at HKU, scheduled to take place from May 1 to June 2. The primary objective of this conference is to support and advance the study of modernism in Asia. MSIA aims to provide a platform for scholars from both within and beyond...\n
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04-03-2024 : Interview with Dr. Otto Heim: Part One<\/a><\/h4>\n\nBy Khadija Azhar and Luisa Wan\n\n\n\nThough we were well-aware of Dr. Otto Heim\u2019s reputation as a passionate educator, it was only when we worked with him as teaching assistants that we truly understood the depth of his commitment to the craft. In the past few semesters, we not only had literal front-row seats to Dr. Heim\u2019s fascinating lectures b...\n
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04-03-2024 : The Year of Dragon<\/a><\/h4>\n\nDownload\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBy Jisu Bang\n\n\n\nHappy Lunar New Year! For those reading this, I wish you all the best for the Year of the Dragon. During this time of year, millions of people around the world get excited for one of the biggest annual festivals \u2013 the Lunar New Year. But how much do we actually know about the Lunar New Year? For example, what does...\n
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05-01-2024 : Is the other a sign? A reading of Martin Buber<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\nby Ruyu Yan\n\n\n\nIn Martin Buber\u2019s way of thinking, the minimal unit to discuss human existence is two: One steps into being in one\u2019s relation to another. The presence of others is essential to our experience of the world. In one\u2019s awareness, the existence of other persons is accompanied by a sense of distance: between oneself and the...\n
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05-01-2024 : "We have all actually been tougher than we think"<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\nby Jisu Bang\n\n\n\nIt is that time, again, when we find ourselves approaching the end of the current year and eagerly anticipating the arrival of the next. Now is therefore an opportune moment for self-reflection and the setting of new goals and resolutions.\n\n\n\nThe story I want to tell takes us back to last September. It was a typical Sunday nigh...\n
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05-01-2024 : Interview with Rajesh Panhathodi<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\nRajesh Panhathodi is a soon-to-be MPhil graduate in the School of English. His research focuses on the depictions of transnational migration from India to the Middle East in cartoons\/comics. In his recently-submitted thesis, Rajesh explores the themes of transnationalism, identity, and the complex interplay of emotions within the context of co...\n
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01-11-2023 : Mementoes of COEDA 2023 conference<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\nLast month, the Coalition of English Departments in Asia (COEDA) held its sixth annual conference at the University of Hong Kong. This intellectual collaboration brought together faculty members and graduate students from English departments of top universities in East Asia, including Seoul National University, National University of Singapore...\n
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01-11-2023 : Interview with Jisu Bang<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\nJisu Bang is a second-year MPhil candidate in the School of English, whose research interests lie in legal interpretation, the First Amendment, and the philosophy of rights. Jisu explores the textual ambiguity that arises from interpretations of legal terms. Currently, his project centers around the legal conflict between religious freedom and...\n
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30-06-2023 : Interview with Professor Christopher Hutton<\/a><\/h4>\n\nby Jisu Bang and Tingcong Lin\n\n\n\nCould you tell us about your area of research?\n\n\n\nI am currently working on the history of linguistics in relation to Aryan, and the impact of linguistics on India. Although I\u2019m not an India specialist, I think it\u2019s actually the most fascinating country in the world to study this topic. Linguistics \u2013 thinking...\n
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30-06-2023 : A Year in Graduate School<\/a><\/h4>\n\nby Shameera Nair Lin\n\n\n\nBefore starting my first year as an MPhil candidate, I made an active vow to myself, where I sought to document as many memories as possible. When I made such a promise, of course, I had no idea any of these photos would be seen by an audience beyond my Instagram and Twitter followers. In a way, the very quotidian nature of...\n
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30-06-2023 : Presentations as performances, and beyond: A talk on applying to and presenting at conferences by Dr. Anjuli Gunaratne<\/a><\/h4>\n\nby Tingcong Lin\n\n\n\nThe School regularly organizes professionalization workshops, in which faculty members are invited to give talks on career-enhancement skills for postgraduate students. On May 10th, 2023, Dr. Anjuli Gunaratne was invited to give a talk on \u201cApplying to and presenting at conferences.\u201d Dr. Gunaratne has extensive experience of ...\n
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08-05-2023 : Interview with Felix Chow<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\nFelix Chow is a first-year MPhil candidate in the School of English, whose project is an attempt at negotiating contemporary Hong Kong poetics. Apart from his work as a graduate researcher, Felix is a prolific presence on the Hong Kong poetry scene, where he assists in co-organising the monthly poetry event \u201cOutLoud\u201d alongside publishing p...\n
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08-05-2023 : A reflection on reflection; Or, a reflection on a reflection I did not end up writing<\/a><\/h4>\n\nReflections at Cloud Gate (aka the Bean) in Chicago\n\n\n\nby Luisa Wan\n\n\n\nAs I was scrambling to put together my paper for the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, I made a casual promise to my friend and the amazing editor of this magazine, Shameera Nair Lin, that I would come back with a reflection for them.&...\n
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04-04-2023 : Interview with Dr. Sinead Kwok<\/a><\/h4>\n\nDr. Sinead Kwok's office desk.Photo credit: Dr. Sinead Kwok\n\n\n\nby Jisu Bang and Tingcong Lin\n\n\n\nSinead Kwok is an early career researcher whose research interests lie in the philosophy of language and communication, the history of linguistics, semiology and semiotics, as well as translation. After obtaining a PhD, which explores Western translatio...\n
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04-04-2023 : Crossing the Finishing Line<\/a><\/h4>\n\nPhoto credit: Shameera Nair Lin\n\n\n\nby Shameera Nair Lin\n\n\n\nThe story begins in the early nineties when my parents met at a hash run. A colonial-era tradition originating in Kuala Lumpur all the way back to the 1930s \u2013 which perhaps makes my current work as a postcolonial literary researcher even more crucial \u2013 hashing is a derivative of hare &...\n
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13-02-2023 : School of English Postgraduate Seminar Session: An Interview with Emily Rose Nicholls and Ahsan Md Firoz Mahmud<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nby Tingcong Lin\n\n\n\nThe School of English research seminar series is a significant event for the School, an occasion when faculty and research postgraduate students gather to share and discuss their work, and sometimes to hear invited speakers (https:\/\/english.hku.hk\/event\/Seminar_Series\/2022-2023\/First_Semester). In the postgraduat...\n
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13-02-2023 : A non-local\u2019s guide to HKU local hall culture<\/a><\/h4>\n\nPhoto credit: Jisu Bang\n\n\n\nby Jisu Bang\n\n\n\nFiery speech, loud and hearty chants, stringent seniority system, a-week-long orientation for first year students, excessive demands for hall activities contributions. These features of HKU hall life often seem to intimidate non-local students who \u201creside\u201d in halls provided by HKU, but who don\u2019t per...\n
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02-12-2022 : The Rise of Korean Films<\/a><\/h4>\n\nPhoto: Jeremy Yap\/Unsplash\n\n\n\nby Jisu Bang \n\n\n\nIn the past few years, a dramatic shift has occurred in the global film industry. Instead of Hollywood movies, many notable Korean films have become what we might label \u2018mainstream\u2019. Consider Parasite, receiving four different awards at the 2019 Academy Awards. It could be argued that Korean motio...\n
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02-12-2022 : An Interview with Dr. Moonyoung Hong<\/a><\/h4>\n\nby Shameera Nair Lin & Tingcong Lin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1.    Tell us more about your work at HKU. \n\n\n\nI\u2019m a full-time lecturer at HKU, so I\u2019m teaching four courses this year, including a capstone course (\u201cImaginary Geographies: The Art of Writing Place,\u201d \u201cImagining Asia,\u201d \u201cWorld Literature\u201d and the MAES Capstone). While I am...\n
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01-11-2022 : Interview with Dr. David Edmonds<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\nby Jisu Bang\n\n\n\nDavid Edmonds is a sociolinguist, specializing in social interaction and interpersonal communication. He currently focuses on healthcare communication, with a special focus on interactions between doctors and patients in different medical settings. David obtained his PhD from CUHK in 2020, after receiving his MSc and BSc from V...\n
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01-11-2022 : Notes to self on self-care from a psychology PhD student<\/a><\/h4>\n\nPhoto by Aziz Acharki on Unsplash\n\n\n\nby Stephanie Ng\n\n\n\n\u201cYou must have the best self-care routine,\u201d my friend remarked upon learning that I was pursuing a PhD in the field of psychology.\n\n\n\nThis is a common assumption: the idea that our professions seamlessly translate into practical skills in daily life. Doctors are expected to be in excellen...\n
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09-09-2022 : A Reflection on Cats, Community and a little more<\/a><\/h4>\n\nBy Wan Lok Yee Luisa\n\n\n\nMeme-worthy brother-sister dynamic\n\n\n\nIn particularly stressful times, just encountering a shop cat in the neighbourhood is enough to make my day. For many, spotting shop cats, or snapping a picture of them doing something silly, has become a way to keep spirits up in Hong Kong these days. In the myriad of Facebook communit...\n
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09-09-2022 : Warriors of Future: Revamping the Hollywood of the Far East<\/a><\/h4>\n\nBy Lok Hang Vincent Chu\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNearing the turn of the millennium, Hong Kong cinema saw an exodus of talent, one stream moving northwards to the Chinese market and another moving across the Pacific Ocean to Hollywood. It marked the end of three glorious decades when the local movie industry was known as the Hollywood of the Far East.\n\n\n\nDespite co...\n
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02-08-2022 : Photo Essay - On Seeing and Being Seen<\/a><\/h4>\n\nBy Khadija Azhar\n\n\n\nI don\u2019t enjoy being visible. The vulnerability in being seen, in taking up space among other people, feels unnerving. My friends think that\u2019s irrational, and I agree; strangers on the streets have places to be, and things to do. They\u2019re probably not looking at me.\n\n\n\nFunnily enough though, it\u2019s not the fact of being loo...\n
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02-08-2022 : As writers and artists, we have the ability to translate multiple perspectives: Interview with Sanaz Fotouhi<\/a><\/h4>\n\nBy Khadija Azhar, Lok Hang Vincent Chu, and Rajesh Panhathodi\n\n\n\nSanaz Fotouhi was born in Iran soon after the revolution, during the Iran-Iraq war. Her father\u2019s job as a banker took her and her family to many countries before she landed in Australia. Sanaz holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Hong Kong. The...\n
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31-05-2022 : Privileges Made Clear: A Reflection on Theatre Space During Lockdown<\/a><\/h4>\n\nBy Lok Hang Vincent Chu\n\n\n\n\u2018All animals are equal but some\u2026\u2019 we know how that quote goes. Opportunities for theatre participation have never been equal in Hong Kong, but such privileges have been made clearer during lockdowns. Just as we have moved meetings and work online, theatre groups have also migrated their performances online and cond...\n
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31-05-2022 : Interview with Dr. Jessica Valdez<\/a><\/h4>\n\nBy Anneliese Ng and Tingcong Lin\n\n\n\nWe are happy to have the opportunity to talk with Dr. Jessica Valdez, about the Nineteenth-Century Research Cluster she established, her interest in interdisciplinary research, and her memorable experiences at the School of English, HKU.\n\n\n\nJessica founded the Nineteenth-Century Research Cluster in 2020 to encou...\n
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28-04-2022 : Interview with Dr. Hanwool Choe<\/a><\/h4>\n\nBy Khadija Azhar, Lok Hang Vincent Chu, and Rajesh Panhathodi\n\n\n\nHanwool Choe is a discourse analyst who focuses on digital discourse, multimodal interaction, food discourse, and life stories. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Georgetown University in Washington D.C., U.S.A. in 2020. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship (2013-2015) and...\n
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31-03-2022 : My Experience in the HKU Summer Research Programme<\/a><\/h4>\n\nBy Tingcong Lin\n\n\n\nLast summer, I participated in the 2021 HKU Summer Research Programme and was awarded a conditional offer for the HKU Presidential PhD Scholarship at the end of it. I would like to share my experience for the Alumni Magazine.\n\n\n\nAfter selection and enrollment, the Programme provided the participants with eight weeks of intense r...\n
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31-03-2022 : Interview with Professor Adam Jaworski<\/a><\/h4>\n\nBy Khadija Azhar, Lok Hang Vincent Chu, and Rajesh Panhathodi\n\n\n\nAdam Jaworski obtained his MA (1979), PhD (1985), and DPhil (1991) in English sociolinguistics from Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna\u0144, where he taught as Assistant Professor until 1991. Between 1991\u20131992 he was Lecturer at the Department of Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck, Univer...\n
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01-03-2022 : Reflections on COVID-19 and mental health in Hong Kong<\/a><\/h4>\n\nBy Khadija Azhar\n\n\n\nAt the tail-end of what has been a particularly long winter in Hong Kong, there is an uncomfortable silence hanging over the city. Yesterday, stepping out into the heart of Central, I almost felt accosted by the pervasive stillness, disturbed only by the spattering of raindrops on the pavement. Threads of rain wove the city int...\n
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01-03-2022 : Interview with Jackie Militello<\/a><\/h4>\n\nBy Anneliese Ng\n\n\n\n*The interview was conducted during the 20\/21 academic year\n\n\n\nFormerly a student of the HKU-KCL joint PhD programme, Jackie is now an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of English. Having passed her PhD with flying colours in the summer of 2020, Jackie is now teaching on our MA programme. I talked to Jackie about her new...\n
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27-01-2022 : Review of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro<\/a><\/h4>\n\nBy WU Tong\n\n\n\nSixteen years after his first science-fiction-like novel Never Let Me Go (2005) was published, Kazuo Ishiguro revisits the future to produce Klara and the Sun (2021). Many things have changed during those sixteen years; the bland monologue of his latest protagonist evokes a sense of familiarity, and soon, readers find something new i...\n
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27-01-2022 : Interview with Dr. Claire Gullander-Drolet<\/a><\/h4>\n\nBy Khadija Azhar, Lok Hang Vincent Chu, and Rajesh Panhathodi\n\n\n\nClaire Gullander-Drolet earned her PhD in English from Brown University in 2019 and was a visiting assistant professor at Clark University during the 2019-2020 academic year. Her writings have appeared in The Journal of Transnational American Studies, Resilience: A Journal of the Env...\n
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22-12-2021 : Interview with Dr. Anjuli Gunaratne<\/a><\/h4>\n\nBy Khadija Azhar, Lok Hang Vincent Chu, and Rajesh Panhathodi\n\n\n\nAnjuli Gunaratne grew up in Colombo, Sri Lanka and received her Ph.D. in English and the Interdisciplinary Humanities at Princeton University. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Hong Kong\u2019s Society of Fellows in the Humanities (2018-2020) and at Brown U...\n
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14-04-2021 : My literary research in Old English texts<\/a><\/h4>\n\nBy Midas Fridas\n\n\n\nHow should we understand the behavior of a (military) general who purposely orders his army to give up the geographical advantage of a defensive position (which effectively blocks the enemy troops from landing), and instead allows the full force of the foe to unload and assemble in an open field? Is it because the general has go...\n
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14-04-2021 : 2020: A Short Chronology of Uncertainties<\/a><\/h4>\n\nby Shellie Audsley\n\n\n\nJust as my little platter of succulents sat snuggly back into the box in which I carried it to the postgraduate office, I turned and saw\u2014through the closing door\u2014a white suitcase rolling quickly down the long aisle. Perhaps as heavy with books as my own tote, it belonged to a PhD student from another School, whom I surmis...\n
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29-05-2020 : Interview with Dr Nicholas Luke<\/a><\/h4>\nDr Nicholas Luke joined the faculty of the School of English this year as an Assistant Professor. He holds a DPhil and an MSt in English Literature from The University of Oxford, and degrees in Law and Arts from the University of Queensland. His first book, published with the Cambridge University Press and titled Shakespearean Arrivals: The Birth o...\n
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02-04-2020 : Integrating Integrationism and Roy Harris at HKU<\/a><\/h4>\nby Kwok Man Ka Sinead\nFeaturing conversations with Prof. Christopher Hutton, Dr. Adrian Pabl\u00e9, Dr. Jaspal Singh, Jasper Wu and Nina Fang\nSituated in the School of English at HKU is a strand of studies that has often slipped below the radar \u2013 integrationism (integrational linguistics). It is never easy to summarize this strand in one wo...\n
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27-12-2019 : Butterflies and Spiders: A glimpse into Lammaians\u2019 lives<\/a><\/h4>\nby Andy Hui, Gloria Dou\n\nIf you live in Hong Kong, Lamma Island is a place you have definitely heard of. With its nice scenery and easy trails, it\u2019s a popular destination for hikers. Situated off the southwest of Hong Kong Island and occupying an area of 13.55km2, Lamma Island is home to 6000-7000 Hong Kongers, and is the fourth biggest island in...\n
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27-12-2019 : Estranged<\/a><\/h4>\nK.S. \nThe following is based on an interview I had with a friend of mine. He has agreed to sharing his story here, on the premise that not even our closest friends can recognize it is him. Therefore, his name and many of the details have been altered to protect his privacy. But during the process of my writing, I altered everything through my cinem...\n
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18-11-2019 : Reflections on the COEDA Conference at HKU: Shifting Worlds: Navigating the Global English Context<\/a><\/h4>\nby Simon Whitaker\n\n\nParticipants at the close of proceedings on Saturday 5th October\nHKU hosted the 2nd Conference of the Coalition of English Departments in Asia on October 4th-5th of this year, after the successful first conference in Seoul at Seoul National University in October of 2018. The aims of this coalition are various, involving all poss...\n
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11-10-2019 : A Colloquium on Preparing and Publishing Academic Articles by Dr. Brian King<\/a><\/h4>\nby Juan Zhong\nA new series of professionalisation colloquia has been launched this year. For each, a member of the School or a visiting scholar will be invited to give a talk on professionalisation skills for postgraduate students. The first talk was given by Dr. Brian King, a critical sociolinguist from the School, who has a number of publications...\n
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11-10-2019 : Interview with Dr Daniel Weston<\/a><\/h4>\nby John Scott Daly\nDaniel Weston read English Language and Literature for his BA at the University of Oxford and obtained his MPhil and PhD in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge. Prior to taking up a position at HKU, he was employed at Birkbeck, University of London; Portsmouth University; and, latterly, at the Norwegian University of Sci...\n
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08-07-2019 : When something is meant for you, there is no force that can stop it from being yours<\/a><\/h4>\nby Dave Kenneth Cayado\nI first visited the University of Hong Kong back in 2017 to meet some of the Filipino scholars who are already studying here. At that time, I was still a few months away from finishing my UG studies but the aspiring academic in me was already thinking of where I could do my postgraduate degree. Despite having a clear vision o...\n
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22-05-2019 : Mount Longhu in Jiangxi, China<\/a><\/h4>\nby Scott Xuekun Liu\nLonghu Shan (Mount Dragon and Tiger) is a popular place to hike and see Hong Kong\u2019s beautiful scenery near the HKU campus. Zhengpeng Lou, in his 2018 feature article, introduced us to a trail he described as \u2018treacherous\u2019, where one can start from Longhu Shan to Mount High West to see the marvelous sunset and cloud sea. I ...\n
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22-05-2019 : The School of English Seminar Series: An Interview with Natalie Mo, Anneliese Ng and John Scott Daly<\/a><\/h4>\nby Juan Zhong\nThe Seminar Series is of great significance for the School as it gathers visiting scholars and School members to share their latest research. Last month, MPhil students Natalie Mo and Anneliese Ng, and PhD candidate John Scott Daly, each gave a talk on their research. After the seminar, they kindly accepted this interview to share the...\n
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29-04-2019 : Autobiography of an Unknown Prude<\/a><\/h4>\nby Monirul Huq\nLet us go then, you and I,\nWhen the evening is spread out against the sky\nLike a patient etherized upon a table\n\u2013 T.S. Eliot, \u201cThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\u201d (1915)\n\u201cIs it an extension of the Winter, or the beginning of Autumn, or by any chance a makeshift rainy season?\u201d Clouds were slowly crawling over the tree tops ...\n
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29-04-2019 : Professor Julia Kuehn discusses her new role as Head of the School of English<\/a><\/h4>\nInterviewed by John Scott Daly\nProfessor Julia Kuehn has postgraduate degrees from the Universities of Oxford, Bonn and London, and also completed the Habilitation at the University of Bamberg. Her research interests lie in Victorian literature and culture, travel writing (related to China) and critical theory. She is currently Head of th...\n
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15-03-2019 : The Sea Witch<\/a><\/h4>\nby Natalie Mo\n\nThe sea witch had lied to her.\nShe had promised that by the third sunset, if the prince had not fallen in love with Ariela, she would turn into sea foam, returning to the ocean that birthed her. But when she cast herself in the sea, instead her borrowed legs had split into four, scales spreading across her skin like a disease. When A...\n
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15-03-2019 : Assistant Professor Brian King discusses coming to HKU and new directions for his research<\/a><\/h4>\nInterviewed by Eric Yin Liu\n \nCould you please tell me about your academic background?\nI did my PhD in New Zealand, where I focused on language use in sexuality education classrooms. I found a secondary school teacher who was willing to let me come into the classroom, record sessions and do ethnographic research. Before that, my Master\u2019s dis...\n
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22-02-2019 : The Space Between in Ourselves<\/a><\/h4>\nby Wilson Chik\nThe space in room 7.45 is reconfigured: although the rectangular tables placed in a U-shape and used for seminars are present, now \u2013 right down the center \u2013 a passageway opens. For three days, this spatial configuration becomes an activated place, charged with different histories as participants and presenters from as far as Hawa...\n
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22-02-2019 : HKU Alumni Stories: An Interview with Carmen Tomfohrde<\/a><\/h4>\nInterviewed by Giulia Usai\n \n After earning an M.A. and a Ph.D. from HKU, Carmen Tomfohrde has become part of the HKU Centre for the Humanities and Medicine. In this interview, she shares her experience as former HKU student, gives some advice to current MPhils and PhDs, and recounts the steps of her research and career path, which has ta...\n
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15-01-2019 : Reflections on the Victorians Institute Conference 2018 at Asheville, North Carolina<\/a><\/h4>\nby Anneliese Ng\nI am very grateful for the travel support by the University Research Committee (URC), which enabled me to attend the Victorians Institute\u2019s 2018 conference held in Asheville, North Carolina on November 9-10. At one stroke, three of my dreams came true: it was my first Victorian conference, my first conference outside Asia, and my ...\n
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15-01-2019 : The School of English Seminar Series with Dr. Anya Adair<\/a><\/h4>\nInterviewed by Andre Theng\nThursday afternoons are something of a special time at the School of English: it\u2019s the one time a week we gather for our weekly seminar series where we get the opportunity to hear from School members and visiting scholars on their latest research. This year, we have Dr. Anya Adair in charge of putting these sessions tog...\n
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03-12-2018 : Assistant Professor Ricky Chan on his path to forensic phonetics research<\/a><\/h4>\nInterviewed by Vincent Tse\nDr. Ricky Chan is Assistant Professor at the HKU School of English. He obtained a BA&BEd double degree and an MPhil from HKU, and another MPhil and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Here, he discusses his studies and research journey, shares his UK teaching experience and gives some advice to (potential) researc...\n
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03-12-2018 : Dr. David Karlander, Fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, on language politics, mobile semiosis and graffiti<\/a><\/h4>\nInterviewed by Nicky Runge\n \nCould you tell me a little bit about your research? How did you start out, and how did you get where you are now?\nI did my BA and MA at Uppsala University and obtained my PhD at Stockholm University in the Centre for Research on Bilingualism. This was also where I stayed and did research for my Postdoc. As for my r...\n
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08-11-2018 : Interview with Clara Dawson<\/a><\/h4>\nInterviewed by Simon Whitaker\nClara Dawson, Visiting Professor from the University of Manchester, discusses poetry as a window into the nineteenth century\n  \nWhat drew you to the poetry of the Long Nineteenth Century? \nI think for our own culture poetry occupies a very marginal role, but in the nineteenth century it was hugely import...\n
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08-11-2018 : Interview with Harriet Hulme<\/a><\/h4>\nInterviewed by Jackie Militello\n\nHarriet Hulme, of the HKU Society of Fellows in the Humanities, talks about her new book, Hong Kong, and her next project\n\n\nInterviewer: Your forthcoming book, Ethics and the Aesthetics of Translation (UCL Press), sounds like an extension of your dissertation research.  I'd be interested in hearing how you adap...\n
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12-10-2018 : Aubade<\/a><\/h4>\nby Gloria Dou\n\n\nAttente \u00e0 la fen\u00eatre by Marcel Rieder\n\nSunlight through the window\npane, through the flora-embroidered\nsheer curtain, upon the window\nsill, upon the wooden\ndesk and chair, upon the\nroses in the glass vase whose flamboyance\nneeds to be awakened by fresh\nwater, upon the sky blue\nbedsheet and the visage\nthat just bids farewell to\nnos...\n
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12-10-2018 : Dr. Jaspal Singh on sociolinguistics, fieldwork in India and research ethics<\/a><\/h4>\ninterviewed by Sean P. Smith\nDr. Jaspal Singh joined the HKU School of English in August 2018 as an Assistant Professor of sociolinguistics. Here, he discusses how the field of sociolinguistics needs to focus more on the body, his research on hip hop and dance in India, and his reflections on how academic work can be discussed with research partici...\n
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03-07-2018 : How to practically apply discourse analysis in real life: Communicating with veterinarians<\/a><\/h4>\nAnson Chan (BA HKU)\nEmail: ansonchan94@gmail.com\nThe School of English at HKU offers a diverse range of courses related to English linguistics and literature. The thing I like most about the undergraduate curriculum is that it recognises the importance of viewing English in a global and interdisciplinary context and provides multidisciplinary cours...\n
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03-07-2018 : Introducing Treacherous Trail<\/a><\/h4>\nEdgar, Zhengpeng Luo\nPeople often ask me: \u2018What do you like most about studying in Hong Kong?\u2019. My answer to this question is: undoubtedly the perfect integration of nature and the city. Coming from a remote area with endless mountain ranges in Southwest China, I have developed a keen interest in nature exploration since childhood. Before I cam...\n
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03-07-2018 : A week out of town<\/a><\/h4>\nKelvin Wong\nThe airport express to Taipei city passed through a valley. The windows on both sides were filled with different shades of green. There were acacia trees, the only kind I recognised, with pinnate leaves, tipped with tiny yellow flowers. This species is commonly used for forestation and can easily be found in country parks and around res...\n
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06-06-2018 : First Conference at Florence<\/a><\/h4>\nBy Olivia Xu\nI attended my first academic conference in Florence, Italy in May last year. It was the supernumerary NYU\/Purdue University NAVSA\/AVSA conference \u2013 NAVSA stands for North America Victorian Studies Association, the largest academic association of Victorian literature studies in North America. Due to its location in Florence, Italy, th...\n
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06-06-2018 : Facing the Fish: Language Learning for Monolinguals<\/a><\/h4>\nby Sean P. Smith\nTonal languages are intimidating. Infinitesimal variations in sound can encode entirely different meanings, posing to the Indo-European native a puzzle about as inviting as the Cretan labyrinth. The imperfectly inflected vowel is always lurking just around the corner, threatening to devour the novice speaker in a feast of incompreh...\n
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17-04-2018 : On presenting outside of my discipline<\/a><\/h4>\nBy Aaron Anfinson\r\n\r\n\r\nLast summer, my partner and I were fortunate enough to receive funding to present on a recently published article. The conference, however, was to be my first presentation outside of an explicit disciplinary focus on sociolinguistics that I had just been starting to get acquainted with in the School of English. It was an inte...\n
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17-04-2018 : An Interview with Kitty Mak<\/a><\/h4>\nBy Giulia Usai\r\n\r\nThis month, we bid farewell to Kitty Mak, School of English office manager, who has recently accepted an offer as Senior Manager in Human Resources in the Faculty of Education. During the years spent working in the School office, she has collected many precious memories, made long-lasting friendships and efficiently coordinated th...\n
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17-04-2018 : An interview with Dr. des. Nicole Eberle<\/a><\/h4>\nby John Scott Daly\r\n\r\n\r\nDr. des. Nicole Eberle is a temporary assistant professor with the School of English at HKU. She completed her PhD studies at The University of Zurich, in Switzerland. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, language variation and change, contact linguistics, lesser-known varieties of English, English varieties in t...\n
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26-03-2018 : Eurovision, politics and the dominance of English<\/a><\/h4>\nby Billy Poon\r\nI first came across the Eurovision Song Contest back in 2010 when I was looking for new genres of music apart from the ones I used to listen to all the time. Ever since, I have been quite involved in the Eurovision fan community and various blogging platforms. Essentially, the Eurovision song contest is an annual competition with eac...\n
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26-03-2018 : Interview with Dr. Anya Adair<\/a><\/h4>\nby Anneliese Ng\r\n\r\n\r\nThis semester saw a couple of new faces among our academic staff, one of which was Dr. Anya Adair.\r\nHolding a BA & LLB from the University of Melbourne, and graduate degrees in English from Melbourne, Oxford and Yale, Dr. Adair researches medieval English literature, as well as pre-modern English law and legal culture. When...\n
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21-02-2018 : following suit by wilson chik<\/a><\/h4>\nfollowing suit by wilson chik\u00a0\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPublished on:\u00a0February 15, 2018 < Back >\n
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15-02-2018 : \u201cLiving Droplets\u201d<\/a><\/h4>\nby Vincent Tse\r\n\u201cLong time no see\u201d (\u597d\u8010\u5187\u898b; Cantonese pinyin: hou2 noi6 mou5 gin3) and \u201cadd oil\u201d (\u52a0\u6cb9; Cantonese pinyin: gaa1 jau2) have become well-known Chinglish terms, which are probably used comfortably and frequently among certain English-speaking communities around the world. To some people, terms like Chinglish, Hong Kong E...\n
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15-02-2018 : The Cinder Girl and the Bird<\/a><\/h4>\nBy Natalie Mo\r\n\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When the prince finally tracked down the owner of the mysterious glass slipper, the whole kingdom rejoiced.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0All except the king and queen, of course. They\u2019d condoned the silly search, but never actually expected anything to come out of it. After all, what were the odds the shoe coul...\n
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25-01-2018 : Interview with Dr. Harriet Hulme, Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Humanities<\/a><\/h4>\nBy Jackie Militello, 3rd year PhD candidate\r\n\r\n\r\nThis month we are introducing Harriet Hulme, from The\u00a0Society of Fellows in the Humanities:\u00a0\"a prestigious new initiative that attracts exceptional, early-career, post-doctoral scholars from around the world to the University of Hong Kong.\"\u00a0 (You can read more about this new program here http:\/\/ar...\n
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25-01-2018 : An Interview with Dr. Brandon Chua<\/a><\/h4>\nBy Andre Joseph Theng\r\nThere is a new face in Professor Douglas Kerr\u2019s former office, and he is none other than Assistant Professor Brandon Chua who recently joined the School this academic year. Originally from Singapore, he has spent time in the United Kingdom and more recently, in Australia before coming to Hong Kong.\r\nComing to Hong Kong has ...\n
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25-01-2018 : Interview with Assistant Professor Elizabeth Ho<\/a><\/h4>\nBy Collier Nogues, 3rd year PhD candidate\r\n\r\n\r\nElizabeth Ho\r\nCN: Welcome to HKU\u2019s School of English! In the talk you gave as part of our seminar series last year, I remember that you discussed the 150th anniversary map of Hong Kong that HSBC just installed in the floor of its atrium in Central, and the politics of that map as public space. The ta...\n
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25-01-2018 : The Last Jedi: An epic or a disaster?<\/a><\/h4>\nby Jasper Wu\r\nI am informed that this article will be scheduled for January. So, first of all, welcome back! Hope we all had an enjoyable and relaxing winter holiday. Speaking of holiday entertainments for December 2017, the film Star Wars: The Last Jedi \u2013 the second episode in the recent trilogy and the eighth episode in the Star Wars saga, has ...\n
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13-10-2017 : Trip to the 2017 LSA Linguistic Institute<\/a><\/h4>\nBy Hao, Scarlett Tun\r\nThanks to the funding support from the \u2018Pilot Scheme on International Experience for RPg Students\u2019, I had the chance to participate in the 2017 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Linguistic Institute this July. The LSA Linguistic Institute is a world-renowned linguistics summer school, which aims to provide advanced train...\n
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13-10-2017 : An unforgettable experience at the LSA Linguistic institute 2017<\/a><\/h4>\nby Sydney Wang\r\nThe Linguistic Society of America holds summer Linguistic Institutes every two years, which have become prestigious gatherings for linguistics students and scholars. As third year PhD students, Jackie Militello, Corey Huang and I will share our experience from this year\u2019s, which was held over 4 weeks in July and August in Lexingto...\n
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31-08-2017 : Remarks on the occasion of Mr. Franky Lau\u2019s retirement, 31 May 2017<\/a><\/h4>\nby Professor Chris Hutton\r\nToday I\u2019m speaking on behalf of the teaching and professoriate staff, as the longest serving academic staff member in the School of English. Franky has been part of the life of the Department and then the School for as long as I can remember. Indeed a yellowing letter in the department files records that Franky transfer...\n
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31-08-2017 : Message from Professor Elaine Yee Lin Ho<\/a><\/h4>\nDear alumni, Dear friends,\r\nI would like to let you know that I have taken early retirement from HKU from September 1, 2016. I meant to send this message earlier but thought I would wait till I have good news about retirement to report. Well, I can now let you know that retirement is absolutely brilliant! Though I wouldn't go so far as to say I sho...\n
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31-05-2017 : Bauhinia and the City<\/a><\/h4>\nBy Kelvin Wong\r\nWhen I was young, bauhinia was never really my favourite. Unlike banyan and camphor trees, bauhinias are thin and twisted\u2014because, I thought, of the limited space of the city, just as those baby watermelons grown in boxes are misshapen.\r\nAnd then six years ago, in late winter, this guy first had his heart broken. I was walking bac...\n
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31-05-2017 : Copenhagen PhD Winterschool: A research trip of many firsts<\/a><\/h4>\nby Nicanor Guinto\r\nBefore heading to Copenhagen, I had no concept of what a winter\/summer school looked like. My idea of an international academic gathering was limited only to conferences that I\u2019d attended in the past. In my previous experience, these are normally gatherings where, as a \u2018small potato\u2019 researcher, you\u2019re expected to rush th...\n
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09-05-2017 : Homeless<\/a><\/h4>\nBy Johnson CHAN Man Long\r\n\u201cMeow!\u201d Chu Poh\u00a0Poh\u00a0heard a sound behind a stack of cardboards. She\u00a0slowly moved, pushing the stack aside, and found a grey kitten lying down on all fours. The kitten\u2019s fur was wet; it might have been hiding from the rain that was pouring\u00a0a couple of minutes ago. Chu Poh\u00a0Poh\u00a0smiled. It had been a long time sinc...\n
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09-05-2017 : Snatch a Little Leisure for Tea Appreciation<\/a><\/h4>\nby Pedro Lok\r\nConsidering that April is the ideal time to harvest tea leaves (as the fresh buds are still tight and give an optimum flavour and texture), I would like to share the delight of tea drinking. Tea drinking is considered cultured leisure. To be precise, the term \u201cdrinking\u201d can be replaced by \u201csavouring\u201d which more vividly depicts...\n
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06-04-2017 : Travel to Write<\/a><\/h4>\nBy Billy Lok Ming Poon\r\nPeople travel for different purposes. Some travel for work while others for leisure and relaxation.\u00a0Whatever the purpose, traveling is indeed something to be excited about. You can escape from your normal routine and spend some time away from your familiar surroundings.\u00a0 This is one of the reasons I began my research on to...\n
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06-04-2017 : Jin Yong\u2019s novels and the Jin Yong Gallery<\/a><\/h4>\nby Jasper Wu\r\nAnyone interested in Hong Kong culture and martial arts will most probably have heard of Bruce Lee. While Bruce Lee is the man who brought martial arts to big screens, there is another master who brought martial arts to novels\u2014Dr. Louis Cha,[1] also known to his readers by his pen name, Jin Yong.\r\nThe works of Jin Yong have been, si...\n
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10-03-2017 : An Interview with Dr. Nan Zhang<\/a><\/h4>\nby Olivia Xu\r\nDr. Nan Zhang is currently a visiting assistant professor in the School of English at HKU. She holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in the U.S. Her research interests include global modernism, late nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture, ethics and literature, intellectual history, and aesthetic theory.\r\n\u00a0\r\nO...\n
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10-03-2017 : On Asylum and Migration, visiting the Glasgow Refugee and Asylum Network<\/a><\/h4>\nBy Aaron Anfinson\r\n\r\n\r\nThe streets of Glasgow, 60 second exposure\r\nThroughout 2016 much of the world seemed to be reading off of an anti-globalisation and anti-immigration script. As a result, we have been experiencing the uncertainty of Brexit and the \u2018American Carnage\u2019 of a Donald Trump presidency. Additionally, an ultra-nationalist party is ...\n
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07-02-2017 : Mei6 Jyun4\u2014Not Finish!<\/a><\/h4>\nBy Vincent Wai Sum Tse\r\nHong Kong university students are expected do certain things in their university life. These are commonly known as \u201cThe Five Things in University\u201d \u2013 studying, doing part-time jobs or internships, being an executive committee of a society, living in halls and dating.\r\nI will not talk about all of them, but will focus on...\n
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07-02-2017 : To do or not to do an English Literature Degree: Taking a leap of faith and landing in a safe space<\/a><\/h4>\nby Dr. Sanaz Fotouhi\r\nDespite some resistance from my banker father to do a \u2018practical\u2019 degree\u2014I am sure he is not the first or the last person to advise so\u2014I decided adamantly that I wanted to study English Literature, to be a writer, and to teach literature at a university.\u00a0\r\nWithout much choice as to where I was going\u2014my expat parents...\n
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