The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public research university in Ma Liu Shui,Hong Kong,formally established in 1963 by a charter granted by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. It is the territory's second-oldest university and was founded as a federation of three existing colleges –Chung Chi College,New Asia College and United College –the oldest of which was founded in 1949.
Hong Kong Baptist University is a publicly funded tertiary liberal arts institution with a Christian education heritage. It was established as Hong Kong Baptist College with the support of American Baptists,who provided both operating and construction funds and personnel to the school in its early years. It became a public college in 1983.
National Taiwan Normal University,or Shīdà師大 is an institution of higher education and normal school operating out of three campuses in Taipei,Taiwan. NTNU is the leading research institute in such disciplines as Education,Linguistics,Fine Arts,Music and Sports in Taiwan. NTNU enjoys a long and distinguished history as one of the four oldest universities in Taiwan. Founded in 1922 during the Japanese regime,it was first known as Taihoku High School under the Government-General of Taiwan before being renamed as Taiwan Provincial Teachers College in 1946,and subsequently restructured as a comprehensive university in 1994.
TVB Jade,or simply Jade,is a Hong Kong Cantonese-language free-to-air television channel owned and operated by Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) as its flagship service,alongside its sister network,the English-language TVB Pearl. Broadcasting started on 19 November 1967. It is headquartered at TVB City at the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate in Tseung Kwan O,in the Sai Kung District. Primarily broadcasting entertainment programming,TVB Jade has historically been the most dominant television channel in the region in terms of viewership,with its closest competitor having been the now-defunct ATV Home.
Sinophone,which means "Chinese-speaking",typically refers to an individual who speaks at least one variety of the Chinese language. Academic writers often use the term Sinophone in two definitions:either specifically "Chinese-speaking populations where it is a minority language,excluding Mainland China,Hong Kong,Macau,and Taiwan" or generally "Chinese-speaking areas,including where it is an official language". Many authors use the collocation Sinophone world or Chinese-speaking world to mean the Chinese-speaking world itself or the distribution of the Chinese diaspora outside of Greater China.
Cantonese is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou and its surrounding area in Southeastern China. It is the traditional prestige variety of the Yue Chinese dialect group,which has over 80 million native speakers. While the term Cantonese specifically refers to the prestige variety,it is often used to refer to the entire Yue subgroup of Chinese,including related but largely mutually unintelligible languages and dialects such as Taishanese.
Written Cantonese is the most complete written form of Chinese after that for Mandarin Chinese and Classical Chinese. Written Chinese was originally developed for Classical Chinese,and was the main literary language of China until the 19th century. Written vernacular Chinese first appeared in the 17th century,and a written form of Mandarin became standard throughout China in the early 20th century. While the Mandarin form can in principle be read and spoken word for word in other Chinese varieties,its intelligibility to non-Mandarin speakers is poor to incomprehensible because of differences in idioms,grammar and usage. Modern Cantonese speakers have therefore developed new characters for words that do not exist and have retained others that have been lost in standard Chinese.
Some numbers are believed by some to be auspicious or lucky or inauspicious or unlucky based on the Chinese word that the number sounds similar to. The numbers 3,6,and 8 are generally considered to be lucky,while 4 is considered unlucky. These traditions are not unique to Chinese culture,with other countries with a history of Han characters also having similar beliefs stemming from these concepts.
The Basic Law of Hong Kong states that English and Chinese are the two official languages of Hong Kong. During the British colonial era,English was the sole official language until 1978 but has remained a strong second language in Hong Kong. As the majority of the population in Hong Kong are descendants of migrants from China's Canton Province,the vast majority speak standard Cantonese or other Yue Chinese varieties as a first language,with smaller numbers of speakers of Hakka Language or the Teochew dialect of Southern Min. In addition,immigrants and expatriates from the West and other Asian countries have contributed much to Hong Kong's linguistic and demographic diversity. The geographical element of this diversity can be seen in the Hong Kong Language Maps,which shows oral languages from the 2011 Census,and oral and written languages from the 2016 Census. Statistics for the 27 self-reported spoken languages/dialects reported in the 2011 Census,can be found in the report:Language Use,Proficiency and Attitudes in Hong Kong.
Sidney Lau Sek-cheung was a Cantonese teacher in the Chinese Language Section of the Government Training Division and Principal of the Government Language School of the Hong Kong Government. He had graduated bachelor of arts from Sun Yat-sen University,Guangdong,People's Republic of China.
Hong Kong Cantonese is a dialect of the Cantonese language of the Sino-Tibetan family.
The Yale romanization of Cantonese was developed by Gerard P. Kok for his and Parker Po-fei Huang's textbook Speak Cantonese initially circulated in looseleaf form in 1952 but later published in 1958. Unlike the Yale romanization of Mandarin,it is still widely used in books and dictionaries,especially for foreign learners of Cantonese. It shares some similarities with Hanyu Pinyin in that unvoiced,unaspirated consonants are represented by letters traditionally used in English and most other European languages to represent voiced sounds. For example,is represented as b in Yale,whereas its aspirated counterpart,is represented as p. Students attending The Chinese University of Hong Kong's New-Asia Yale-in-China Chinese Language Center are taught using Yale romanization.
The Yale-China Association,formerly Yale-in-China,is an independent,nonprofit organization which seeks to develop educational programs in and about China and further understanding between Chinese and American people. Founded in 1901 and originally a Protestant missionary society,Yale-China's work is characterized by long-term relationships to build Chinese institutional capacity. Current programs include the fields of public health and nursing,legal education,English language instruction,American Studies,and cultural exchange for Chinese and American students. Publications include a regular newsletter,biennial report,and the annual Yale-China Health Journal.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law is a law school in Hong Kong.
St. Francis' Canossian College was founded on 7 May 1869 as the second school established by the Italian Canossian Daughters of Charity in Hong Kong. The wall painting of four Guardian Angels playing instruments is the school's mascot.
Canadian International School of Hong Kong (CDNIS) is an international school in Aberdeen,Hong Kong. Founded in 1991,the school provides an education for over 1,800 students representing more than 40 nationalities from Early Years 1 to Grade 12. CDNIS is one of seven International Baccalaureate (IB) World Schools in Hong Kong authorised to deliver three IB programmes –the Diploma Programme (DP),Middle Years Programme (MYP) and Primary Years Programme (PYP). In addition to the IB Diploma Programme,students are also eligible to receive the Ontario Secondary School Diploma upon graduation. The language of instruction is English,with Mandarin,French,and Spanish taught as second languages. Additionally,the Early Years programme now supports two teaching streams:Bilingual and International. In the Bilingual stream,students will receive equal instruction in both Mandarin and English. Whereas the international stream will focus on English with some Mandarin instruction. The Bilingual program is planned to commence in the 2022 school year in both Early Years 1 and 2 while the Preparatory programme will commence the Bilingual program in the 2023 school year. The Head of School is Dr. Jane Camblin. The school celebrated its 25th anniversary during the 2016–2017 school year. The school received its full IB re-authorisation in 2018 and full CIS/WASC accreditation in 2018. Over the summer of 2019,the school installed 349 solar panels on two of the school's roofs - making CDNIS’photovoltaic farm the largest solar farm of any school on Hong Kong Island.
The Taipei Language Institute was founded in 1956 by a group of missionaries who wished to provide training in Mandarin Chinese for Taiwan-bound missionaries. Originally named Missionary Language Institute,the founder Dr. Marvin Ho created the institute as a means of educating these foreigners in Mandarin and Taiwanese.
The Chinese Canadian community in the Greater Toronto Area was first established around 1877,with an initial population of two laundry owners. While the Chinese Canadian population was initially small in size,it dramatically grew beginning in the late 1960s due to changes in immigration law and political issues in Hong Kong. Additional immigration from Southeast Asia in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and related conflicts and a late 20th century wave of Hong Kong immigration led to the further development of Chinese ethnic enclaves in the Greater Toronto Area. The Chinese established many large shopping centres in suburban areas catering to their ethnic group. There are 679,725 Chinese in the Greater Toronto Area as of the 2021 census,second only to New York City for largest Chinese community in North America.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,Shenzhen (CUHK-SZ) is a campus of the public Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shenzhen,Guangdong. It is a joint venture between Shenzhen University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. CUHK-Shenzhen was officially founded on 11 October 2012 and approved by the Ministry of Education of China on 16 April 2014.
The Department of Fine Arts of the Faculty of Arts,Chinese University of Hong Kong,was founded in 1957 as part of New Asia College.
