Hong Kong literature website: www.HONGKONG-ENGLISH-LIT.NET
This website introduces you to the rich corpus of English-language writing about Hong Kong. Here, you will find short summaries and critical comments on more than 100 books. Most of these books are fictional, and they show how writers from many places and different times have imagined Hong Kong and its people.
English language and linguistics:
Sociolinguistics; discourse analysis; World Englishes;
corpus-linguistics; the politics and ideology of language;
language and the law; language and gender; cognitive
sociolinguistics, English grammar; construction grammar;
grammaticalization; Integrational linguistics; philosophy
of language.
Language
and communication:
Language and culture; theories of communication; intercultural
communication; language in workplace and institutional
settings; politeness.
Literary
studies in English:
Literary and cultural studies and theory; Romanticism;
modernism; postmodernism; the English novel; feminist
approaches to literature; American literature; contemporary
British fiction; Hong Kong and other Asian literatures
in English; postcolonial literatures; travel writing;
creative writing; drama.
Cross-cultural
studies in English:
World literature; cross-cultural literary representation;
travel writing; Western ideas and images of China;
translingual theory and practice; study of literary
and linguistic globalization; World Englishes.
You can click on the staff name to find more details.
Dr Katherine
Chen: Sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology,
language ideologies, sociolinguistic aspects of bilingualism,
language and identity, ethnography, sociolinguistic
documentary films. Dr Wendy Gan: British
middlebrow women's writing from the early twentieth
century, with a secondary interest in female modernist
writers. Also Asian film studies, especially Hong
Kong films. Dr Otto Heim: Postcolonial
literatures in English, American literature, literary
and cultural theory. Dr Elaine Yee Lin Ho:
Anglophone literature, postcolonial literature and
theory, Hong Kong literature and culture. Professor Christopher
Hutton: language and politics, sociolinguistics,
language and law, history of linguistics. Dr Agnes Kang:
Interactional sociolinguistics, discourse analysis,
language and communication in medical contexts, gender
and language. Professor Douglas Kerr:
Modernist and modern literature. Writing and empire. Joseph Conrad. Arthur Conan Doyle. George Orwell.
Dr Julia Kuehn:
Nineteenth-century literature and culture (particularly
Victorian and fin-de-siecle). Popular writing. Exoticism. Dr Janny Leung:
Psycholinguistics; cognitive approaches to second
language acquisition; implicit learning; language,
law and psychology. Dr Lisa Lim:
World Englishes, Asian Englishes, postcolonial Englishes,
sociolinguistics, phonetics, prosody, multilingualism,
language maintenance, shift, endangerment and revitalisation. Dr Dirk Noël:
the semantics/pragmatics of grammar, grammaticalization,
diachronic construction grammar, clausal complementation
in English, Dutch-French-English contrastive verb
valency, evidentiality, modality in World Englishes. Dr Adrian Pablé:
Integrationism; philosophy of mind/language; history
of linguistics. Dr Page Richards:
drama, creative writing, American literature, poetry,
Life Writing and theory. Dr Paul Smethurst:
Postmodern culture, contemporary British and American
literature, travel writing and travel theory, eco-criticism
and the history of nature, landscape aesthetics. Dr Q.S. Tong:
British idea/representation of China; literary/critical
ideas in history; liberalism and imperialism.
LCOM
Papers is an e-journal issued by the 'Programme in Language
and Communication' in the School of English at The University
of Hong Kong. Every year it publishes selected papers
written by students in courses offered by the programme
and by students enrolled in English language courses
in the School of English.
Critical
Zone is a series of publications and a project
of multilateral collaboration among scholars from Hong Kong, mainland China, the United States
and Europe. Interdisciplinary in nature and especially
concerned with intellectual issues in the mainland
of China and Hong Kong, Critical Zone takes a
global outlook, propagates new forms of understanding,
promotes novel research methodologies, and engages
meaningful intellectual debates in the wide area
of human cultural experience. Its aim is to introduce
to readers in the region the best of international
scholarship and to present to international academic
communities representative research work conducted
by scholars in this region.
Hong
Kong U Writing: An Anthology (March 2006) is a collection
of 67 pieces of creative works by students from the
School of English and established writers associated
with the University of Hong Kong such as Wendy Gan,
Tammy Ho, Agnes Lam, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Page Richards
and Eddie Tay. The anthology is now available at the
University bookstore, the School of English and online
through Paddyfield.
Yuan
Yang: A Journal of Hong Kong and International Writing
is now accepting submissions of poems, short stories,
short plays and creative non-fiction in English.
More
information of Graduate Studies at the School of English,
please click here.
Current
students Brown, David (MPhil, English Literature,
D. Kerr) Chan Ka Wai (MPhil, Implicit Learning, J. Leung) Cheng Po Ming George (MPhil, China and the West, W.
Gan) Chiu Wai Fong Aqua (MPhil, English Literature,
The Trickster, O. Heim) Christe, Noël (PhD, Language and Linguistics, C. Hutton) Chu Wing Ki Connie (PhD, Literary Studies,
E. Ho) Chung, Fiona (PhD, Modern Poetry, P. Richards) Ding Xiaoyu (MPhil, English Studies, Q.S. Tong) Ding Yan (PhD, Cognitive Linguistics, D.
Noël and H.-G. Wolf) Dong Yufei (MPhil, China-West Cross-Cultural Studies (Pinyin and Chinese Language Reform), Q.S. Tong) Ghelani Divya (MPhil, Literary Studies, D.
Kerr and W. Gan) Hui Yat Sin Cindy (MPhil, Exile,
P. Richards) Jia Qian (MPhil, English Literary Study,
O. Heim) Kelly Olivia Rita (MPhil, Indian Postcolonial
Diasporic Literature, E. Ho) Lam Ngo Shan Alision (MPhil, English Language and Linguistics,
J. Leung and C. Hutton) Lee Jason Eng Hun (PhD, Study of cosmopolitanism in contemporary fiction, P. Smethurst) Li Sui Sum (PhD, Workplace Discourse, K.
Chen) Su Ping (PhD, English Literature, O. Heim) Sze Tin Tin (MPhil, Literary Studies in English, D. Kerr) Tang Yuen Man (MPhil, Language and Identity in Hong Kong, K. Chen) Tsang Man Ying (MPhil, Language and Identity,
A. Kang) Tse Hoi Lam Karen (MPhil, Literary Studies
in English, W. Gan) Wang Dongqing (PhD, Cross-cultural Studies,
Q.S. Tong) Webber, Nicholas Peter(PhD, Literature, O. Heim) Wong Man Tat Parco (PhD, A Historical and Sociological Study of Triad Discourse in Hong Kong, C. Hutton) Wong Yuk Yin Bobo (PhD, Postcolonial Studies,
P. Smethurst) Xiong Jiajuan (PhD, Cognitive Science of Language,
D. Noël) Xu Xi (PhD, Travel Writing and Cross-cultural
Studies, D. Kerr and Q.S. Tong) Zhou Feifei (PhD, Language and Linguistics, A. Pablé)
Recently completed
theses
The
following students successfully completed postgraduate
research degrees in the School of English in 2010:
Jin Xiaotian (PhD) ‘A Generation "Betwixt and Between": Youth, Gender and Modernity in 1920s and 30s Middlebrow Women's Writing’; Lau Leung Che (MPhil) ‘Passing Three Hurdles: Representations of Henrik Ibsen’s Nora in Twentieth Century Chinese Theatre’ Lim Anne Wing-huen (MPhil) ‘W.E.B. Du Bois and Asia’; Li Boting (PhD) ‘Leonard Woolf: Towards a Literary Biography’; Liu Yiqi (M.Phil) ‘Gendered Discourses and Rapport Management in Hong Kong Beauty Spas’; Lo Ying Wa (MPhil) 'Reading Schizophrenia and Female Bodies across Cultures: A Psychoanalytical Approach to Selected Novels by Sylvia Plath, Maxine Hong Kingston and Toni Morrison' Ng Sheung Pui (MPhil) ‘Language and Identity: The Case of the Zhuang’ Sorensen, Steven William (MPhil) ‘Imagining the Other: How the US Responds to China’s Rise’ Sun Li (PhD) ‘Degree adverbs in Hong Kong and Singapore English: A corpus-based investigation’ Wang Xiaoli (MPhil) ‘The Making of the Poetic Image’ Xia Xiaoyan (PhD) ‘Categorization and L2 Vocabulary Learning - A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective’ Yang Jing (PhD) 'The Construction of the Chinese Woman in 1990s American Cinema' Yeung Sze Man, Simone (MPhil) 'The Rule of Metaphor and the Rule of Law: Critical Metaphor Analysis in Judicial Discourse and Reason' Zhang Chengping (PhD) 'Moments of Vision: Thomas Hardy, Literature and Ethics' Zhang Yanping (MPhil) '"Of Human Bondage": Somerset Maugham in China'
The following students
successfully completed postgraduate research degrees
in the School of English in the period 1998-2009:
Au, Florence (MPhil) 'Gender in Textbook
Dialogues: Textual Analyses and Classroom Practices' Barker, Andrew (PhD) 'Creating Art against
the Sky-Gods: Gore Vidal's Manifesto and Didacticism' Bautista, Anna Maria (MPhil) 'Constructions
of Motherhood: Hollywood Negotiations of the Mother-Daughter
Relationship' Chan, Flo (M.Phil) 'New Enemies: Women Writers
and the First World War'
Chan Wing Chun, Julia (MPhil, English Literature,
P. Smethurst) Chanda, Geetanjali (PhD) 'Indian Women in
the House of Fiction: Place, Gender and Identity
in Post-independence Indo-English Novels by Women' Chen, Katherine H. Y. (MPhil) 'Norms of Pronunciation
and the Sociolinguistics of Cantonese in Hong Kong' Cheung, Karen C. L. (MPhil) 'Dialogue, the
Dandy and the Divided Self: Individualism in Selected
Works of Oscar Wilde' Cheung, Marjorie (MPhil) 'A Stylistic Approach
to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the
Rings' Chin, Grace Voon Sheong (PhD) 'Expressions
of Self/Censorship: Ambivalence and Difference in
Chinese Women's Prose Writings from Malaysia and
Singapore' Chiu Man Yin (PhD) 'Written Orders: Authority
and Crisis in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives' Chung, Helena M. H. (MPhil) 'The Road to
Paradise: Toni Morrison's Journey from Embracing
the Past to Transcending it' Chung, Holly H. Y. (MPhil)'Language and Gender:
Representations in the reality TV show The Survivor' Fang Hong (PhD) 'The Ethnic Trickster in
Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake
Book' Fong, Wendy W. N. (MPhil) 'Reader Response
and the Dynamics of Plot' Fotouhi, Sanaz (MPhil) '"That Other
World That Was the World": A Study of the Short
Fiction of Katherine Mansfield and Nadine Gordimer' Gould, Gaye (PhD) 'Constructing Lyrical Heroes:
Verdian Tenors and their Literary Sources' Ho, Julie Elaine (MPhil) 'Half of Life: Male
Voices in the Novels of Carol Shields' Ho Lai Ming, Tammy (MPhil) 'Reading Aloud
and Charles Dickens's Style' Huang Lihua Rachel (PhD, Twentieth Century
Literature, O. Heim)
Hung, Ruth Y. Y. (MPhil) '"To Be Worthy
of the Suffering and Survival": Chinese Memoirs
and the Politics of Writing' Ingham, Mike A. (PhD) 'Theatre of Storytelling:
The Prose Stage Fiction Adaptation as Social Allegory
in Contemporary British Drama' Ip, Chief Inspector P. F. (MPhil) 'The Sociolinguistics
of Triad Language in Hong Kong' Kwan Wing Ki, Koren (MPhil) 'Experiments
in Subjectivity: A study of postmodern science fiction' Lau Hor Ying Esther (MPhil) 'The Migrant
Experience, Identity Politics, and Representation
in Postcolonial London: Zadie Smith, Hanif Koureishi
and Monica Ali' Lee Jun Yu Phoebe (MPhil) 'Balcony Romance:
Stage Distance and Closure' Lee Keon Woong (MPhil) 'Sacrificial Cain
in the Modern Workplace' Lee, Reese W. S. (MPhil) 'Heimat in the Cinema
of Wim Wenders' Lee, Veronica Hoi Ling (MPhil) 'Trespassing
and Redefining Boundaries: Edith Wharton's mobilization
of her characters against prejudice and reproduction' Lee, Vicky (PhD) 'Hong Kong Eurasian Memoirs:
Identity and Voices' Li, Iris (MPhil) 'Perception in Debates:
An Investigation of "Women's Language"
and Speech Rates in Hong Kong' Li Zhaohui (MPhil) '"Dark, Inscrutable
Workmanship": Contradiction and Reconciliation
in Wordsworth's Representation of Nature' Liu Wensong (PhD) 'Saul Bellow's Fiction:
Power Relations and Female Representation' Lok Mai Chi, Ian (PhD) 'Cultural Understanding
in English Studies: An Exploration
of Postcolonial and World Englishes Perspectives' Lui, Gigi C. C. (MPhil) 'Language and Law:
a Critical-Semantic Approach to the Basic Law of
the Hong Kong SAR' Ma, Marina (MPhil) 'The Plural Subject in
The Woman Warrior, "Pangs of Love" and
"Phoenix Eyes"' Mak Chun Nam Bernie (MPhil) 'Language and
Communication: A Sociolinguistic Study
of Newcomers' Socialization into the Workplace' Mak, Elaine Ngah Lam (MPhil) 'Eugenics in
Dystopian Novels' Mathai, Kavita (MPhil) 'A Question of Identity:
A Study of Three Indian Novels in English of the
Nineteen-Eighties' Mok, Cynthia K. L. (MPhil) 'The Sociolinguistics
of Written Chinese in Local Comic-book Subculture:
Stigmatised Language Varieties in Hong Kong' Mok Siu Kit Eric (MPhil) 'The Ends of History:
The novels of Kazuo Ishiguro, Timothy Mo and Graham
Swift' Nightingale, Nicola (PhD) 'A Man for All
Reasons: Colonialism and the Cult of Masculine Reticence
in Kipling's Writing' Ng Hau Man (PhD) 'The Non-Humanist Humanist:
Edward W. Said'
Ng Yiu Tsan Simon (MPhil, Comparative Literature,
P.K. Richards) Pak Chiu Shuen Tom (MPhil) 'Stephen King's
Popular Gothic: Gothic metafiction, ideology, scatology
and (re)construction of community' Poon, Scarlet (MPhil) 'Colonialism and English
Education at The University of Hong Kong, 1913-1964' Rambukwella, Harshana (PhD) 'The Search for
Nation: Exploring Sinhala nationalism and its others
in Sri Lankan Anglophone and Sinhala-language writing' Rojas, Yuko K. (PhD) 'Space and Female Consciousness
in Virginia Woolf's Fiction: Idealist and Phenomenological
Perspectives' Rose, Caroline (MPhil) 'Closure and the Short
Story: with readings of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell
and Angela Carter' Siu, Anthony C. H. (MPhil) 'Gender(ed) Fables
of Maya Deren' Sung Chit Cheung Matthew (MPhil, Sociolinguistics,
Discourse Analysis, Language and Gender, A. Kang)
Tan Siew Imm (PhD) 'Languages in Contact: A
corpus-based study of Malaysian newspaper English' Tay, Eddie (PhD) 'Not at Home: Postcolonial
Anglophone literatures of Singapore and Malaysia' Wang Jianping (PhD) 'Commemorative Re-Enactment:
A Study of John Barth's Middle and Late Fiction' Wei, Sandy T. S. (MPhil) 'Law and Language:
Problems of Meaning and Interpretation in the Hong
Kong Courts' White, Patricia So Fong (MPhil) 'The Unmaking
of Heroes: A study of masculinity in contemporary
fiction' Wong, Grace (MPhil) 'Conceptualizing Transnationalism
and Transculturalism in Chinese American Women Narratives
and Memoirs: Jade Snow Wong, Ruthanne Lum McCunn,
and Amy Tan' Wong Ho Yin (MPhil) 'Representations of "Hong
Kong" in Hong Kong Poetry in English' Wong, Lorraine (MPhil) 'Cultural Fever, Consumer
Society and Pre-Orientalism: China in Eighteenth-Century
England' Wong Tee Vee, Vivian (MPhil) 'Between Self
and Subjectivity: Women in Three Novels by Jean
Rhys' Yang Hao-han Helen (PhD) '"A Lady Wanted":
Victorian governesses abroad' Yeung, Kawaii K. W. (MPhil) 'The Universality
of the Functional Category "Complementizer":
Two Case Studies in Grammaticalization and Multifunctionality' Yuen, Zoe (MPhil) 'Yiddish, Quasi-Yiddish
and Ideologies of American English' Zhou Jingqiong (PhD) 'Black Humor in the
Short Fiction of Raymond Carver'
