by admin | May 15, 2025
After the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984, many filmmakers and writers in Hong Kong and elsewhere speculated on the possibility of a resulting identity crisis. Professor Alvin K Wong, Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, says...
by admin | May 14, 2025
Large language models (LLMs) are the bedrock for generative artificial intelligence, but most of the focus on them has been from a computing perspective. Yet LLMs have their origins in language, a topic normally related to the arts, not computer science.Linguists and...
by admin | May 14, 2025
Archaeology investigates the ancient human past based on the things people left behind – from pottery and stone tools to architecture and landscapes. In order to collect information, archaeologists excavate and remove artefacts and structures from a site, so...
by admin | Nov 15, 2024
You can take Professor Ruby Yang out of film, but you cannot take film out of Ruby Yang.Professor Yang won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject in 2007 for The Blood of Yingzhou District about the effects of AIDS on orphans in the province of Anhui in...
by admin | May 22, 2024
Professor Edwin Michielsen, who joined HKU’s School of Modern Languages and Cultures as an Assistant Professor specialising in modern Japanese literature in July 2022, was given opportunities last year when he received two fellowships to further his research project...
