DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Scholarly books and monographs
Bolton K.R. and Hutton C.M., (editors) Interventions - Special Issue on 'Linguistics
and Orientalism', London, UK, Routledge, 2000, 2: 158pp.
Bolton K.R. and Luke K.K., Language and Society in Hong Kong: The Social
Survey of Languages in the 1980's. Hong Kong, Social Sciences Research Centre,
1999, 312pp.
Lim S.G.L. and Herrera-Sobek M., Power, Race, and Gender in Academe: Strangers
in the Tower?. New York, Modern Language Association Press, 2000.
Lim S.G.L., Smith L.E. and Dissanayake W., Transnational Asia Pacific Gender,
Representations and the Public Sphere. Urbana, IL, University of Illinois
Press, 1999.
Tong Q.S. and Kerr D.W.F., Editors, Journal of Asia Pacific Communication.
Cross-Cultural Communications: Literature, Language, Idea. 1999, 9(1 and
2), Special Issue: 163pp.
Vallins D.M., Coleridge and the Psychology of Romanticism: Feeling and Thought.
London & New York, MacMillan & St. Martins, 1999, 233pp.
Kerr D.W.F. and Zhu J.Q., Kanglade Jingpin Xuan [Conrad's Major Tales].
Shangdong, P.R.C., Shangdong Arts Publishing Co., 1999, 465pp.
Lim S.G.L., Asian American Literature: An Anthology. Chicago, NTC/Contemporary
Press, 1999.
Lim S.G.L. and Cheng L.C., Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American
Writing. St. Paul, Minnesota, New Rivers Press, 2000.
Journal articles, book chapters and other published
papers
Alderson S.J., Iconicity in Literature: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Prose
Writing, In: Max Nänny & Olga Fischer,
Form Mining Meaning: Iconicity in Language and Literature. Amsterdam,
Netherlands, John Benjamins, 1999, 109-120.
Bolton K.R., Language and Hybridization: Pidgin Tales from the China Coast,
Interventions. U.K., Routledge, 2000, 2: 35-52.
Bolton K.R. and Hutton C.M., Linguistics in Cross-Cultural Communication: From
the Chinese Repository to the 'Chinese Emerson, Journal of Asian Pacific
Communication. 1999, 145-163.
Bolton K.R. and Hutton C.M., Orientalism, Linguistics and Postcolonial Studies,
Interventions. U.K., Routledge, 2000, 2: 1-5.
Bolton K.R., World Englishes: The Way We Were, World Englishes. 1999,
18: 405-425.
Francis E.J., Two Perspectives on the Grammar of Possession, Language Sciences.
2000, 22(1): 87-107.
Gan W.C.H., Civil Journey: Mediating the Personal and the Political in
the Essays of Storm Jameson, Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate.
Münster, Germany/New York, Waxmann Publishing,
1999, 8: 201-216.
Gisborne N.S., The Complementation of Verbs of Appearance by Adverbs, In: R.
Bermudoez-Otero, D. Denison, R. Hogg, C. MuCully (eds.), Generative Theory
and Corpus Study. Berlin and New York, Mouton, 2000, 54-75.
Ho E.Y.L., People Like Us: The Challenge of a Minor Literature, Journal of
Asia Pacific Communication. Elsevier, 1999, 9: 1/2: 27-42.
Ho E.Y.L., Women on the Edges of Hong Kong Modernity: The Films of Ann Hui,
Spaces of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China. Minneapolis,
Minnesota, US.A., University of Minnesota Press, 1999, 162-190.
Hutton C.M., In the Shadows of the Third Reich: Case Study of a Dialectologist,
Historiographia Linguistica. 2000, XXVII:1: 127-137.
Hutton C.M., Race and Language: Ties of 'Blood and Speech', Fictive Identity
and Empire in the Writings of Henry Maine and Edward Freeman, Interventions.
2000, 2: 53-72.
Kerr D.W.F., A Passage to Kowloon Tong: Paul Theroux and Hong Kong 1997, Journal
of Commonwealth Literature. 1999, 34(2): 75-84.
Kerr D.W.F., Orwell, Animals and the East, Essays in Criticism. 1999,
49(3): 234-255.
Kerr D.W.F., Significant Others, Identity and Difference in Cross-Cultural Communication,
Cross-Cultural Communications: Literature, Language, Ideas: Special Issue
of Journal of Asia-Pacific Communication. 1999, 9(1 and 2): 1-11.
Kerr D.W.F., Three Ways of Going Wrong: Kipling, Conrad, Coetzee, Modern
Language Review. 2000, 95(1): 1-10.
Kerr D.W.F., Yingguo Xiaoshuo Yu Fanzui Xianchang [British Fiction at the Scene
of the Crime], Waiguo Wenxue [Foreign Literature]. 2000, 2000(2): 65-71.
Lim S.G.L., Asian American Literature: Leavening the Mosaic, Contemporary U.S.
Literature: Multicultural Perspectives, U.S. Society & Values. Electronic
Journals of the U.S. Department of State, 2000, 5(1): 18-22.
Lim S.G.L., Before Its Time, of Its Time: The Transnational Female Bildungsroman
and Kartini's Letters of a Javanese Princess, Journal of Asian Pacific
Communication. 1999, 9(1&2): 13-25.
Lim S.G.L., Complications of Feminist and Ethnic Literary Theories in Asian
American Literature, In: Joyce W.Warren, and Margaret Dickie (eds.), Challenging
Boundaries: Gender and Periodization. Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia
Press, 2000, 107-133.
Lim S.G.L., Global Asia' as Post-Legitimation: A Response to Ambroise Kom's
'Knowledge and Legitimation', Mots Pluriels. http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/June,
2000.
Lim S.G.L., Old Paradigms, New Differences: Comparative American Studies, In:
Mario Klarer and Sonja Bahn (eds.), In Cultural Encounters. Tubingen,
Stauffenburg Verlag, 2000.
Lim S.G.L., Writing out of Turn, Profession 1999. 1999, 214-224.
Slethaug G.E., With Staci Ford, Hong Kong Students Look at the U.S.A.: American
Studies in Hong Kong, American Studies. 1999, 40:2: 151-181.
Tong Q.S., Inventing China: The Use of Orientalist Views on the Chinese Language,
Interventions: International Journal of Post-colonial Studies. Routledge,
2000, 2(1): 6-20.
Tong Q.S. and Kerr D.W.F., Significant Others: Identity and Difference in Cross-Cultural
Communication, Cross-Cultural Communications: Literature, Language, Ideas
(A Special Issue of The Journal of Asian Pacific Communication). 1999, 9(1/2):
1-11.
Tong Q.S., The Bathos of a Universalism, I.A. Richards and His Basic English,
In: Lydia Liu (ed.), Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global
Circulation. Duke University Press, 1999, 331-354.
Tong Q.S., Theory in Practice: Teaching Literary Criticism in Hong Kong, The
Journal of Asian Pacific Communication. 1999, 9, 1/2: 73-82.
Vallins D.M., Circulations of Feeling: Akenside, Coleridge, and the Pleasures
of Transcendence, The Coleridge Bulletin. Bristol, U.K., The Friends
of Coleridge, 1999, 14 (new series): 98-106.
Zierler W.I., Chariot(ess) of Fire: Yokheved Bat-Miriam's Female Personifications
of the Land of Israel, Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History.
Indiana University Press, 2000, 27.
Zierler W.I., Devorah Baron's Fiction of Exile, Prooftexts 19. Indiana
University Press, 1999, 23.
Conference and working papers
Gan W.C.H., 0.01 cm: Affectivity and Space in Chungking Express, City
as Text: Urban Topographies and Critical Interventions. The National University
of Singapore, 1999.
Gisborne N.S., English Light Verbs and the Non-Necessity of Argument Structure,
Fourth International Conference on Lexical Functional Grammar. Manchester,
1999.
Kerr D.W.F., Discipline Wars, Conference on University English Departments
in the Chinese Context in the 21st Century. 1999.
Kerr D.W.F., Timothy Mo's Man Sundae, Complicities, Connections and Divisions:
Ninth Biennial Symposium on Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region.
1999.
Lee V., 'The Likes of Us': The Construction of Racial Identity of Hong Kong
Eurasian Writers, The 3rd International Postgraduate Symposium on Hong Kong
Culture and Society. 2000.
Lee V., Eurasian Voices in Wartime Hong Kong, 9th Biennial Symposium on the
Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region Complicities: Connections
and Divisions. 1999.
Lim S.G.L., Asian American Literary Studies in Perspective, American Studies
Association/Canadian Association for American Studies Conference. Montreal.
1999.
Lim S.G.L., Chicano/a and Asian American Ethnopoetics: Comparative Traditions
(Invited lecture), Teaching American Literature and Culture in Asian Learning
Contexts. Sun Yat-sen America Centre, 2000.
Lim S.G.L., Globalization in the Humanities (invited lecture), University of
Oregon, 2000.
Lim S.G.L., Sons and Widows: Racing and Gendering the Colonized Subject in Chin
Kee Onn's Twilight of the Nyonyas (Keynote), 9th Biennual Asia-Pacific
Symposium. 1999.
Lim S.G.L., Space Travel, Asian Astronauts, and Postmodern Global Identity in
Asian/American Writing (Keynote), Taiwan, National Sun Yat-Sen University, 2000.
Lovatt K.E., This Paraphrase Which Is Art: Writing Memory, Southern Women
Writers Conference. Rome, Berry College, 2000.
Slethaug G.E., Chaos Theory in Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto
Fistfight in Heaven and Smoke Signals, Conference on Philosophy
and Aesthetics, University of Sydney, Australia. 2000.
Slethaug G.E., Orientalism and Gender in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep,
Conference on Hong Kong in Western Literature and Cinema, The Hong Kong-America
Center at The Chinese University, Hong Kong. 2000.
Slethaug G.E., Reflections on The Death of Vincent Chin (Invited Panel
Participant), Presentation at the Film Series, "Race in American Film".
2000.
Zierler W.I., A Time to Be Barren, a Time to Be Born, Two-part lecture given
with Marcie Lenk at the International Limmud Conference, Nottingham University.
1999.
Zierler W.I., The Androgynous Vision of Esther Raab, Paper delivered at the
Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland. 2000.
Zierler W.I., The Barrenness of Our Foremothers, Lecture given with Marcie
Lenk at the Third International Conference on Feminism and Orthodoxy, New York
City. 2000.
Barron C.S. and Gould G.E., Japanese tennis: Issues in collaborative teaching,
Seminar Paper, 2000.
Bolton K.R., 'World Englishes' and the Sociolinguistics of Hong Kong, Hong
Kong English. 1999.
Francis E.J., A Conceptual Semantic Analysis of Thematic Structure in Predicate
Nominals, In: Carrie K. Clarady (ed.), Texas Linguistics Forum. Austin
Texas, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas, 2000.
Kerr D.W.F., "Kipling and the Missionaries", English Department Research
Seminars, HKU. 2000.
Tong Q.S., The Birth of the Modern Critical Subject in China, 2000.
Vallins D.M., 'Whose Shape is That within the Car? & Why': Mrs Dalloway
and 'The Triumph of Life', 10th International Conference on Virginia Woolf,
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, U.S.A.. 2000.
Zhou X.Y. and Tong Q.S., Disappearance of the Subject and Chinese Modernity:
Mao Zedong's Yan'an Forum Talks Revisited, 1999.
Reviews, translations and other written outputs
Gisborne N.S., Review of Charles W. Kreidler, Introducing English Semantics,
English Language and Linguistics. 2000, 4: 129-133.
Lim S.G.L., "In California with Neruda", "Learning to Love America", "Monarchs
Steering", "Riding into California", In: Christopher Buckley and Gary Young
(eds.), The Geography of Home: California's Poetry of Place. Berkeley,
Hayday Press, 1999, 220-223.
Lim S.G.L., "The Child Who Smiles" and "Passports" (Poems), ARIEL. 1999,
30:4: 134, 142.
Lim S.G.L., Boiled Chicken Feet and Hundred Year Old Eggs: Poor Chinese Feasting,
In: Mary Anne Maier et al (ed.), The Leap Years. Boston, Beacon Press,
1999, 78-85.
Lim S.G.L., Father from Asia, Making Literature Matter. New York, Bedford/St.
Martin's Press, 2000.
Lim S.G.L., Island Summer, In: Ruth Hsu, Cynthia Franklin and Suzanne Kosanke
(eds.), Re-Placing America: Conversations and Contestations. University
of Hawaii Press, 2000, Literary Studies East and West Series.
Lim S.G.L., Poems, In: Bill Moyers (ed.), Fooling with Words. New York,
William Morrow & Company, 1999.
Lim S.G.L., Pomegranates and English Education, In: Lynn Z. Bloom (ed.), The
Essay Connection. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2000, 6th edition.
Lim S.G.L., Published Interview: Bill Moyers, "Shirley Geok-lin Lim", Fooling
with Words: A Celebration of Poets on Their Craft. New York, William Morrow,
1999, 131-152.
Lim S.G.L., Published Interview: Charlott Templin, "Creative Writer, Woman,
Academic: Shirley Lim in Dialogue with Charlotte Templin", In: Somdatta Mandal
(ed.), The Diasporic Imagination: Asian American Writing. New Delhi,
Prestige Books, 2000, 71-84.
Lim S.G.L., Published Interview: Joan Chang Chiung-huei, "Shirley Lim and Her
among the White Moon Faces: An Interview", New Literatures Review. 2000,
35 (Summer 1998): 1-13.
Lim S.G.L., Published interview: Kirpal Singh interview with Shirley Lim, ARIEL.
1999, 30:4: 135-141.
Lim S.G.L., Short story, A Home Somewhere, Kunapipi. 1999.
Lim S.G.L., Short story, American Higher Education, Kunapipi. 1999, XXI,
No.1: 94-109.
Lim S.G.L., The Man Who (Poem), World Literature Written in English.
1999, 37.
Lim S.G.L., Two Poems (Poem), Manoa, Land Beneath the Wind. 1999, 31-32.
Slethaug G.E., Performing for an Audience or Circling the Wagons: The Pedagogy
of East and West, Taiwan, 2000.
Smethurst P., Turning Points: Essays in the History of Cultural Expression,
Modern Language Review. London, U.K., Modern Humanities Research Association,
1999, 94:3: 809-810.
Lim S.G.L., Beyond City Limits, LIFE! Book, The Straits Times. 2000,
13.
Lim S.G.L., Comic Tale of Greed in Old Singapore, Straits Times. 2000,
18.
Lim S.G.L., Manipulating Mothers, South China Morning Post Books. 2000,
19: 6.
Lim S.G.L., Review of Leong Liew Geok, Women without Men, Straits Times.
1999.
Lim S.G.L., Unchartered Epic of Egyptian Love, South China Morning Post Books.
1999, 23: 6.
Lim S.G.L., Women from the Battlefield, South China Morning Post Books.
1999, 6.
Tong Q.S., Repression of Modernity or Different Forms of Modernity? Review of
Fin-de-siècle Splendor: Repressed Modernities
of Late Qing Fiction, 1849-1911, by David Wang, Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997,
Literary Research/Recherche Littèraire.
1999, 16(32): 218-221.
Vallins D.M., Review of Michael O'Neill (ed.), Literature of the Romantic
Period: A Bibliographical Guide (Oxford U.P., 1998), Bulletin and Review
of the British Association for Romantic Studies. Keele University, U.K.,
B.A.R.S., 2000, 17.
Vallins D.M., Review of Tim Fulford, Romanticism and Masculinity: Gender,
Politics, and Poetics in the Writings of Burke, Coleridge, Cobbett, Wordsworth,
De Quincey, and Hazlitt (MacMillan & St. Martin's, 1999), Romanticism
on the Net. Toronto, Canada, 2000, 18.
Zhou X.Y. and Tong Q.S., 'Grand Narrative' and 'Empirical Studies' (in Chinese),
Literary Gazette (Wenyi Bo, Beijing). 1999.
Zhou X.Y. and Tong Q.S., High Heels and Bound Feet (in Chinese), Literary
Gazette (Wenyi Bo, Beijing). 2000.
Lim S.G.L., Published Interview: Andrew Sun, Asiaweek. 1999.
Lim S.G.L., Published Interview: Charmaine Chan, "Magical Moment of Poetry",
South China Morning Post, 1999, 10.
Lim S.G.L., Published Interview: Katherine Forestier, "English Forum for Young
Voices", South China Morning Post, Books. 2000, 5.
Lim S.G.L., Published Interview: Michael Taylor, "Launch of Literary Journal
a Creative Move by Students", South China Morning Post Campus Post. 2000,
31.
Lim S.G.L., Published Interview, Santa Barbara News Press. 1999, 1.
Lim S.G.L., Words from a Garden of Eden (Non-fiction article, interview with
author), South China Morning Post. 1999.
Vallins D.M., Andrew Motion: The Unremarkable Laureate, Xpressions (South
China Morning Post). Hong Kong, Pentagram Co. Ltd., 1999, 22.
Vallins D.M., Summer Reading: Tennyson and Virginia Woolf, Xpressions (South
China Morning Post). Hong Kong, Pentagram Co. Ltd., 1999, 23: 9.
Zierler W.I., Laughter with a Twist (Review of Gish Jen, Who's Irish?: Stories),
Far Eastern Economic Review. 2000.
Editorships and high-level service external to HKU
Ho E.Y.L., Member, Editorial Board, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature.
Bowker Saur, 2000.
Lim S.G.L., Advisory Board or Contributing/Corresponding Editor for Dimsum;
Manoa; Journal of Caribbean Studies; Calyx; SPAN (South Pacific, Australia,
New Zealand Journal); Woolf Studies Annual, 1999.
Lim S.G.L., Editorial Boards, on-going Feminist Studies; World Englishes,
MELUS (Multi-ethnic Literatures of the United States); New Literatures
Review, ARIEL; Short Story Journal, 1999.
Lim S.G.L., Editorial board, Women's Studies Quarterly, 1999.
Lim S.G.L., Member of MLA Advisory Committee for International Bibliography,
2000.
Lim S.G.L., Member of MLA Women's Studies Executive Committee, 1999.
Bolton K.R., Consultant to the Hong Kong Examinations Authority (HKEA) on English
language A-level examinations, 1999.
Bolton K.R., Editorial advisory board, World Englishes. Oxford, Blackwell,
2000.
Bolton K.R., Member, Editorial Board, Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics,
2000.
Lim S.G.L., Founder and advisory editor, Yuan Yan: A Journal of Hong Kong
and International Writing, 2000.
Lim S.G.L., Reviewer for Oxford University Press; MLA Press; NTC Publishing
Company, University of Washington Press, University of Wisconsin Press, College
English, 2000.
Lim S.G.L., Reviewer for PMLA; World Englishes; Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council, Canada, 1999.
Tong Q.S., Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Asian Pacific Communication,
1999.
Tong Q.S., Member of Editorial Board, The Semiotic Review of Books, 1999.
All other outputs
Wang J., Commemorative Re-enactment: A Study of John Barth's Middle and Late
Fiction. Thesis submitted for the degree of Ph.D. at the University of Hong
Kong, 1999.
Wei T.S., Law and Language: Problems of Meaning and Interpretation in the Hong
Kong Courts. Thesis submitted for the degree of M.Phil. at the University
of Hong Kong, 2000.
Gan W.C.H., Love and the Frustrated Spinster between the Wars: The Rector's
Daughter and South Riding, English Department Research Seminar.
2000.
Kerr D.W.F., Persuasion and the Perfect Crime, Guest Lecture at Peking University.
2000.