Lecture by Professor Dr. Guo Xi in the twenty-fifth talk of the “Tan Lark Sye Lecture Series”
The 25th session of the "Tan Lark Sye Lecture Series," organized by the Institute of International Education, New Era University College (IIE, NEUC) and the Tan Lark Sye Institute, was held on 27 December. The guest speakers for this event was Professor Dr. Guo Xi from Jinan University. It was attended by more than 180 people.
Professor Dr. Guo Xi, currently a professor at Jinan University, a distinguished researcher at the High-Precision Innovation Center for Language Resources, and the director of the Overseas Chinese Language Research Center. He is also a member of the Expert Committee on Chinese Language Education of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, a director of the Chinese Linguistic Society, and holds adjunct professor positions at several universities both domestically and internationally. Professor Guo has previously served as the dean of the College of Chinese Language and Literature and the Institute of Chinese Language Education at Jinan University, the vice president of Beijing Language and Culture University, the president of the Chinese Society of Sociolinguistics, a professor at Nanjing University, a visiting professor at the University of Khartoum in Sudan (where he also served as the head of the Department of Chinese), a visiting professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, a visiting scholar at the Chinese Language Research Center in Singapore, and a visiting scholar at the Hong Kong Institute of Education.
This lecture was titled " The Inheritance of Overseas Chinese Language and Its Research," focusing on the transmission of the Chinese language abroad. He emphasized that overseas Chinese have gradually migrated from China to various parts of the world at different times and through different channels, bringing "Chinese language" with them. Many overseas Chinese have successfully achieved intergenerational transmission, leading to the emergence of Chinese language varieties worldwide. Since the beginning of the new century, Chinese academia has made continuous progress in the study of overseas Chinese language and its transmission. The main content of the lecture included four points: first, the history of the Chinese language going abroad; second, the status of Chinese language use overseas; third, research on overseas Chinese language and its transmission; and finally, insights and reflections on these topics. The event was moderated by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Wong Shwu Huey from NEUC. It received enthusiastic feedback, with the audience actively participating in the Q&A session and eagerly engaging in discussions.
