Southern Institute of Chinese Linguistics, a joint initiative of Sun Yat-sen University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and University of Macau, is organized by the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao University Alliance for Chinese (GHMUAC) with the aim of promoting Chinese linguistics and serving as a platform for intellectual exchange among colleagues and students of the field based in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Greater Bay Area).
The First Southern Institute of Chinese Linguistics was hosted by the Department of Chinese at Sun Yat-sen University, jointly co-organized by the Department of Chinese Language and Literature and the T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre of the Institute of Chinese Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. It was held from 5-14 December, 2020 through video conferencing.
Focusing on different aspects of Chinese linguistics, the 14 lectures of the Institute attracted an enrollment of more than a thousand people from and beyond the Greater Bay Area. It achieved the mission of the Institute that is mainly open to colleagues and students based in the Greater Bay Area while also welcomes those beyond. Also implemented the motto of the Institute “Precious is to appreciate cultures of others as one appreciates one’s own. Through mutual understanding of diversity, the world will be a harmonious and united one.”
