Identities and undertakings
- Teaching assistant: LING2003 Phonetics 1 (2024), LING2004 Phonology 1 (2025).
- Student member of the International Phonetic Association (2025 -).
- Postgraduate member of Lee Woo Sing College, CUHK (2025 -).
- Conference reviewer: National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication 2024.
Awards, scholarships, and grants
Ph.D.
- First Place in LSA Summer Institute Term-2 Poster Session (Linguistics Society of America, University of Oregon, 2025), awarded USD 150.
- IPA Student Award for TAI2025 (International Phonetic Association, 2025), awarded EUR 250.
- CUHK Postgraduate Studentship (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2024).
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).
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. But don’t get me wrong. I have 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.