Tong King LEE 李忠慶 (Fellow)
Fields of study:
Intercultural and nonverbal communication; East Asian Englishes; Translanguaging; Artificial Intelligence for creative writing and translation.
Profile:
Tong King Lee is Professor of Language and Communication in the School of English, University of Hong Kong. He earned a Bachelor and Master of Arts from the National University of Singapore, a Master of Laws (Distinction) from the University of Edinburgh, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies from the University of Queensland. Professor Lee was Luce East Asia Fellow at the National Humanities Center, U.S.A. (2021), Lee Kong Chian Research Fellow at National Library, Singapore (2022), and Durham Institute of Advanced Study Fellow, U.K. (2023). He holds the professional qualifications of NAATI Certified Translator (Australia) and Chartered Linguist (U.K.), and the professional appointments of Specialist for the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ) and Fellow of the Industry Academy within the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA). Among the several books he has published include Hypertranslation (Cambridge University Press, 2024), Kongish: Translanguaging and the Commodification of an Urban Dialect (Cambridge University Press, 2023), Choreographies of Multilingualism: Writing and Language Ideology in Singapore (Oxford University Press, 2022), and Translation as Experimentalism: Exploring Play in Poetics (Cambridge University Press, 2022). He takes professional and academic interest in intercultural and nonverbal communication for global business, translanguaging in digital media, and artificial intelligence for creative writing and translation. Professor Lee was conferred the HKU Outstanding Researcher Award in 2024.