Hong Kong English

In The Woman Warrior, Kingston develops the image of China placing restrictive binds around her feet in order to illustrate how even though her family has been separated from China for many years, the Chinese culture and ideals restricts Kingston's rights as a woman. Since Kingston's birth after Kingston's mom, Brave Orchid, moved to America she has held high expectations for her daughter to accomplish many things while all the while juxtaposing her own stories with ancestral tales and duties of…

the English language is related to social status and economic power in ESL countries, I will instantly think of Hong Kong, as the English language has marked significant influence in Hong Kong educational system and it represents a status of power. Basically, Hong Kong has a colonial history, it was occupied by the British army and then subsequently ceded to England as a colony in the mid-19th century. So in ESL countries, the British cultural influences keep on featuring deeply in Hong Kong…

I was 7 years old when I watched the movie the Iron Giant for the very first time. The movie is about the friendship between a boy and a robot and at the end of the movie the robot is faced with the choice of sacrificing himself to save his friend or letting his friends town and everyone that lives there be destroyed by a bomb. The Iron Giant chooses to sacrifice himself in order to save everyone else, but more specifically his friend. That was the first time I had ever seen someone take their…

people. Having a crew where all the information is disclosed even after setting sail. Once arriving, seeing the native villagers participating in a ceremony and then disrupting/spoiling the ceremony caused everything to go downhill. The 1933’s King Kong is a subpar film in my opinion. Its filled with a very early innovative visual effect’s such as stop motion animation, miniature sets, and full scale practical creatures. The movie sparked a generation of movie directors and fans. Even though it…

Asian-American born to Chinese immigrants. She examines certain aspects of the language she speaks and writes, against the language her mother speaks and writes. Amy has a keen grip on “proper” English, most likely due to her being raised in America. Alternatively, Tan’s mother speaks in fragments of English due to her being an immigrant who fled China’s Cultural Revolution (Amy, 1990). Tan realises her different “Englishes” when she was giving a public lecture about her book, The Joy Luck Club,…

To make the play “Happy Valley” newly and currently relevant to a Lingnanian, or even to a Hongkongese, I would like to reset the last scene of the play in Hong Kong, to where Uncle Chester brings his wife and daughter back and stays at Tuppy’s home. In addition, by setting my new version of this scene on 1st July 2015 (after 18 years of the handover), I can highlight the persistence but also the loss of the Hongkongers, who are compelled to accept their citizenship without choice and any…

nevertheless taught in a mixture of English and Chinese. It is a difficult and painstaking process to adjust in a…

the English lessons accessible for the pupils, and much more simplify,…

It was in the middle of the summertime in the Hong Kong Sports Insitute when I had the conversation with my parents. I remembered, the sun was so bright and the air was so humid that I can hardly breathe, its almost like I'm inside a giant oven. After a long and tedious day of school, I took several public transportations to have my running practice. It happened right after I had lunch with my teammate after an exhausting workout, waiting for my parents to pick me up. Everything seems fairly…

brother, who I was visiting, explained that a majority of his friends spoke Spanish fluently, and started picking up certain words. He simply found it easier to explain things using the Spanish words when he could, while filling in the rest with English. This can be seen as a combination of relocation and hierarchical diffusion and has both benefits and drawbacks. For the reasons my brother speaks this way, it’s helpful, but for others it can be confusing and…