Hugo Tseng is a professor of English at Sanda University, Shanghai, and serves on the editorial board of The World of English, a sister publication of The World of Chinese (TWOC) published by The Commercial Press. He is also the former chair of the Department of English at Soochow University in Taipei. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.
How a dark history of coercion, forced labor, and maritime trade transformed a Chinese port city into an evocative English verb
How a dark history of coercion, forced labor, and maritime trade transformed a Chinese port city into an evocative English verb
Born in 1930s China as the name of a grassroots movement supporting the country’s war effort, “gung ho” evolved into a popular American phrase celebrating teamwork
The beginning of January has for millennia marked the beginning of Minor Cold in China, but questions remain as to how best to convey this ancient season to the English-speaking world
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