Jonathan Webster Hong Kong

Bio
Jonathan is currently professor and head in the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, and director of the Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies at the City University of Hong Kong. He previously taught at the National University of Singapore before relocating to Hong Kong in 1987.  His research areas include text linguistics and computational linguistics. He is the editor of the 10-volume Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday.


Who or what book would you like to snuggle under covers with, and why?
"I’ll stick to ‘what book’, and it really depends on the need of the moment, whether it is spiritual, then you might find me UnderCovers with an inspirational book like William P. Young’s The Shack; if it is pure entertainment, then some good historical fiction, such as William Dietrich’s Napoleon’s Pyramids. But if I really want something which stirs the imagination, then there’s nothing better than reading Edwin Thumboo’s A Poet Reading." 

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