CV

Identities and services

  • Student member of the Association for Laboratory Phonology (2026 -).
  • Postgraduate member of Lee Woo Sing College, CUHK (2025 -).
  • Student member of the International Phonetic Association (2025 - 2026).
  • Teaching assistant: LING2003 Phonetics 1 (2024), LING2004 Phonology 1 (2025).
  • Conference reviewer: National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication 2024.

Awards, scholarships, and grants

Ph.D.

M.A.

  • Outstanding Graduate of Beijing 北京市優秀畢業生 (Beijing Municipal Education Commission, 2024).
  • Social Work Award (Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2023).
  • First Class Scholarship (Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2023).
  • Second Class Scholarship (Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2022).
  • Third Class Scholarship (Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2021).

B.A.

  • Third Prize of China Road and Bridge Scholarship 路橋三等獎學金 (China Road and Bridge Corporation, Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2020).
  • Merit Student Award (Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2020).
  • Second Class Scholarship (Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2019).
  • Third Class Scholarship (Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2018).

Non Academic.

  • Best Short Film & Best Production Design for The Tale of the Peony (AIGC Film Shorts Section, the 16th Beijing International Film Festival, 2026).

Facts and opinions

My name 望千 literally translates to “looking toward the millennium”, or figuratively, “approaching the millennium”, because I was born in the final month of 1999.

I live and enjoy living a multilingual life.

  • Most of the time, my spoken English resembles a Southern British accent (with zero intention to sound posh in any way).
  • I speak multiple varieties of Xiang (Changsha and Lower Ningxiang) and Mandarin (Plastic Mandarin, Standard Mandarin, and Changde Mandarin).
  • I know a bit of Cantonese, Spanish, and Portuguese, but still need to work hard before I can fluently communicate with people.

I advocate for both language preservation and multilingualism.

  • People should pass on local dialects to younger generations and avoid disparaging their attainment, especially within the context of linguistic unification (eg., the promotion of Standard Mandarin as a lingua franca) and globalisation.
  • People should recognise the value of hybrid/contact languages, such as Plastic Mandarin, in fostering social bonding and cultural identity.
  • Multilingual competence should benefit both individuals and societies.

Hobbies and interests

  • I’m a cinephile.
  • Hunan cuisine is GOAT.
  • I’ve always wanted to travel around the world.
  • I’d count myself as a railfan and an amateur urbanist.
  • I listen to grunge and alternative rock, plus a lot of other stuff.
  • I love jelly-clear blue waters and sunlit beaches, and I like swimming.
  • I curate/design sound and music for theatrical and cinematic productions.