About Us

David C. S. Li is professor and Head of the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his BA in English (Hong Kong), MA in Applied Linguistics (France), and PhD in Linguistics (Germany). He has published widely in multilingualism in Greater China, World Englishes, Hong Kong English, China English, bilingual education and language policy, bilingual interaction and code-switching (translanguaging), Cantonese as an additional language, and South Asian Hongkongers’ needs for written Chinese. He speaks Cantonese, English and Mandarin fluently, is conversant in German and French, and is learning Japanese and Korean. More recent interests focus on the historical spread of written Chinese (Sinitic) and its use as a scripta franca until the early twentieth century in Sinographic East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam).

E-mail address: david.cs.li[@]polyu.edu.hk

Reijiro Aoyama’s research is concerned with transnational and global processes mediated by migration and the movement of information, symbols, capital and cultural commodities. His research interests include anthropology of work and mobility, narratives of migration, and material and non-material culture of cross-border interactions. He has conducted several long-term ethnographies of the Japanese presence in East Asia, and has published on Japanese diaspora, craftsmanship, and emotional work in service industries, Sino-Japanese animation, and historical cross-border interactions mediated by Sinitic writing. Before taking up his position at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, he taught at Fudan University, Tsinghua University, and City University of Hong Kong.

E-mail address: reijirou2000[@]gmail.com

WONG Tak-sum is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his BEng in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2004), and PhD in Linguistics from City University of Hong Kong (2018). He has built a treebank of the Tripiṭaka Koreana during his doctoral study and has been working on the quantitative study of historical syntax. His research expertise covers Chinese historical linguistics, Cantonese linguistics, corpus linguistics, computer-assisted language learning, Chinese dialectology and Chinese palæography.

E-mail address: wong_taksum[@]hotmail.com

Royce Ng is an internationally recognized freelance artist, trained expert in fine art with a strong track record in creative media production, covering print and/or IT-mediated genres such as manga, VR, documentary video, and animation (cartoon). Being an Australian artist of Hong Kong origin himself – Cantonese-speaking for this reason, highly experienced and very knowledgeable about the various genres of outputs (animation, manga, video documentary, artistic presentation of NFT, among others), he was able to provide insightful comments on how our envisioned impact-rich deliverables could be significantly enhanced.

E-mail address: soloroyce[@]gmail.com

JANG Jin-youp is an assistant professor of the Department of Classical Chinese Education at Sungshin Women's University in Korea. She received her master and doctoral degrees from the Yonsei University. Her main research field is the history of communication and cultural exchange in the East Asian Sinographic Sphere, focusing on the brush conversation between Korean diplomatic missions and Japanese literati (from the 17th to the 19th century). In addition, she has been participating in several projects for investigating the East Asian exchange literature and building databases for them. Her research interest includes Classical Chinese literature written by pre-modern Korean writers, women’s literature in pre-modern East Asia, cultural study related to literature creation, and Classical Chinese teaching in secondary and higher education.

E-mail address: apricity[@]sungshin.ac.kr