Photo credit: Vancouver Hong Kong Forum Society
I speak about Cantonese- or Hong Kong-related issues on the radio or TV from time to time. Thanks to the invitation of program hosts, I am able to mobilize knowledge for greater impact.
All opinions are mine, not my employer’s.
Interviews in English
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- Vancouver Cantonese language school once again offering classes, CBC News/Radio
- BC’s Cantonese speakers fight to preserve language amid uncertainty in Hong Kong, Vancouver City News
- The struggle to save Cantonese, Vancouver Sun
- BC’s Cantonese speakers advocate for language amid suppression in Hong Kong, CTV News Vancouver
- Community-engaged learning and teaching: Instructors uniting and learning how to building communities through teaching, UBC Asian Studies Newsletter
- Chinese Canadian families recalibrate festival expectations, BIV
- How language teaching, learning, and pop culture, can combat racism, UBC Language Sciences
- Rediscovering the love of Cantonese language, UBC Asian Studies Newsletter
- From shame to pride: Why I lost my Cantonese and want to get it back, Toronto Star
- Hong Kong’s own Little Prince had to overcome the challenges of being written in a language with no standardised form, South China Morning Post
- Cantonese still thriving in Metro Vancouver despite wave of Mandarin-speaking immigrants, Vancouver Sun
- With more speakers of Mandarin than Cantonese in Canada now, what future for the southern Chinese dialect there? South China Morning Post
- UBC linguistics researcher details the complex, worrying trend of Cantonese “cultural genocide”, The Runner
- New spin on Chinese school focuses on Chinatown’s Cantonese conversations, Metro News
- UBC graduate student places 2nd in global U21 3MT event, UBC Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
- New art exhibit transgression/cantosphere explores a language under threat, Ubyssey
- New exhibit provides thought-provoking take on the Cantonese language, The Source
- Cantonese indifference: The language of Chinatown, Vandocument
- SlTES, RITES, AND GRATITUDE: Carving out a new, inclusive Chinatown through art and language, Megaphone
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Vancouver Chinese school turns Chinatown into classroom, CBC Radio
Interviews in Chinese
Videos in English
Language – The Lifeblood of Culture (2021)
Promotional video of UBC Cantonese Language Program (2021)
When the little prince speaks Cantonese (2018)
The past, present, and future of Cantonese language and culture (2015)
Musicking the Cantonese Language: From Cantonese Opera to Cantopop (2015)
The past and future of Cantonese media (2015)
First Place and People’s Choice, UBC Three-Minute Thesis Competition (2015)
Videos in Cantonese
Poetry recital with CNTO 303 students
Performance for UBC Lantern Festival Poetry Night (a virtual event)
Interview with Fairchild Radio
Interview with LS Times TV
Voice talent
I was the Cantonese voice for Storybooks Canada. Click into any story to listen.