(1) Teaching in English in Hong Kong: The cat got your mother tongue? The
Brits make a linguistic comeback.
After Hong Kong's reversion to China in 1997, schools selected Cantonese (
not Mandarin) as the language of teaching, "in an assertion of independence
from both former and present sovereign powers." The policy fails. On JUne 7,
education minister of Hong Kong lifted the restriction so that schools in
the territory may switch back to English.
(2) Chinese invention: Question mark; Why did Ch
