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趙明教授 Prof. ZHAO Ming

Prof. ZHAO Ming 趙明教授

Chinese Language and Literature Programme

Assistant Professor

BA (Heilongjiang), MA (Beijing Normal), PhD (Peking)

852-39177925

852-28581334

Rm 911, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

Applied Lexicology, Chinese Historical Linguistics, Chinese Lexicology, Chinese Linguistics, The Intersections of Language, Cognition, and Culture

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2025

“Applying Latin-based Parts of Speech to Chinese: A Missionary Perspective.” WORD: Journal of the International Linguistic Association, 71(1): 37–56.

2024

“Sememe richness: a supplementary indicator of lexical richness in Chinese second-language writing.” CASLAR: Chinese as a Second Language Research, 13(2): 183–213.

2022

“Swearing in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties: The principles and cultural beliefs in Shuǐhǔ zhuàn (水滸傳).” International Journal of Language and Culture 9(1): 48–71. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2020

“An Investigation of Formation Process of Yàzhōu (亞洲): On the Methods and Causes of Disyllablization in Chinese Language.” International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 7(2): 297–332. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2017

“Discussion about the Judgment and Categorization of Words’ Cultural Meaning”(in Chinese, first author). Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 54(4): 539–546, 639.

2017

“Compiling Enlightenments of Guānhuà  jíjiùpiān《官話急就篇》[An Accelerated Mandarin Textbook] as a Foreign Language Textbook in Meiji Period of Japan” (in Chinese), Research on Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language 13(2): 165–178, Beijing: The Commercial Press.

2016

“Re-understanding of ‘culture’ in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language: Thoughts Inspired by the ‘World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages–ACTFL’” (in Chinese), Journal of Yunnan Normal University (The Edition for Teaching and Research on Chinese as Second Language)], 62(3): 81–88.

2015

“A Review of Chinese Cultural Linguistics Research in the Past Decade”(in Chinese), Journal of Yunnan Normal University (The Edition for Teaching and Research on Chinese as Second Language), 59(3): 71–92.

2013

“Word Interpretation in Textbooks of Chinese as a Foreign Language”(in Chinese), Research on Chinese as a Foreign Language, 13(2): 41–53, Beijing: The Commercial Press.

2013

“On the Definition and Teaching of Cultural Words in TCFL” (in Chinese),  Study on Chinese Characters, 18(2): 222–229