Bit-Chee Kwok received his BA and MPhil from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and his PhD from the University of Hong Kong. After holding research and teaching positions at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Academia Sinica, and City University of Hong Kong, he currently serves as a Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre, Institute of Chinese Studies, and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Current Research in Chinese Linguistics, and Studies in Yue Dialects. His specializations lie primarily in Chinese dialectology and historical linguistics, with a focus on the interactions between Southern Chinese dialects and minority languages. At the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the courses he offered include ‘Introduction to Chinese Linguistics’, ‘Introduction to Chinese Phonology’, ‘Studies in Chinese Phonology’, and ‘Chinese Dialectology’.
