1. Service of Academic Societies
July 2024 – Present
Member of Association for Conservation of Hong Kong Indigenous Languages (香港本土語言保育協會).
Apr – Oct 2023
Member of the program committee for the 56th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL-56), which takes place at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand from October 10-12, 2023.
Oct 2022 – Present
Member of SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea)
June 2019 – June 2020 Member of ICTM (International Council for Traditional Music)
Dec 2018 – Present
Member of LSHK (The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong)
Jun 2007 – Present
Deputy General Secretary, The Guangxi Zhuang Studies Society (a semi-official academic association)
2. Academic activities: Invited Lectures, Seminars & Workshops (in reverse chronological)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Invited Lecture: “Ngyam Sley antiphonal poetic singing of the Zhuang: Linguistic and Cultural Convergence in the Lingnan Region”.
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Invited seminar. Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, PIH Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Reading Group, South(-East) Asia Culture: Technologies, Bodies and Power.
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16:30-18:00, 20 January, 2025. Yasumoto International Academic Part (YIA) 402, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
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Cantonese, 1.5 hours.
Guangxi University for Nationalities Invited Lecture: How to find minimal pairs? (田野記音作業講解：如何尋找最小對立)
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Invited by Faculty of Arts, Guangxi University for Nationalities.
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18:00-18:40, 18 September, 2019. Room 103, Chinese Building (Bowen Building), Guangxi University of Nationalities, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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Mandarin, 40 minutes.
Seminar: Ngyam Sley and Yang Zhuang’s Language Normalization in Literature and Art Creation (德保縣文旅局開展‘吟詩’與文藝創作中的佒壯語文規範培訓講座)
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Invited by Bureau of Culture, Sports, Radio-Television and Tourism, Debao County, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China.
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19:30-23:00 17 September, 2019. Meeting Room 804, Yinfa Building (Government Building), Chengguan Town, Debao County, Guangxi, China.
Languages: Mandarin and local Yang Zhuang, 3.5 hours in total.
Guangxi University for Nationalities Workshop: 2019 (Ande) A Workshop of Ceremony, Language and Film (2019（安德）儀式·語言·影像工作坊)
Topic: A Brief Discussion of Sound Data Collection in Field Research & Ritual Language data record (田野記音簡論&儀式語言記錄)
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Invited by Faculty of Arts, Guangxi University for Nationalities.
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The workshop was one of the core activities of the capstone course “2019 Social Practice Activity of the Zhuang Language Class”, the Chinese Minority Language and Literature Major, Faculty of Arts, Guangxi University for Nationalities.
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9:00-12:00, 13 August, 2019. Ande Township Government Building, 4th floor, Meeting Room, Ande Town, Jingxi City, Guangxi, China.
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Language: Mandarin, 1 hour among the total 3 hours of the whole workshop.
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Main Lecturer of the workshop (Topics 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, in Thai)
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Invited by Southeast Asian Linguistics Research Unit, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University and Page@SiamSienceLanguage (พันศาสตร์พันภาษา).
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10, 12, 15 July, 2019. Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Building, 4th floor, Room 401/16, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
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Languages: Thai (Topics 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 by me, 15 hours) and English (Topic 5 by guest lecturer Dr. Tai Chung Pui, 3 hours), 18 hours in total.
Guangxi University for Nationalities Semiar: Studies of Zhuang language and culture from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective: Illustration from the studies of Zhuang character and Zhuang poetry (跨学科及比较视野下的壮学研究——以方块壮字及壮族诗歌的研究为例)
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Invited by Faculty of Arts, Guangxi University for Nationalities.
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8:30-12:30, 19 April, 2019. Room 103, Chinese Building (Bowen Building), Guangxi University of Nationalities, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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Language: Mandarin, 4 hours in total (me 2 hours & Dr. Tai Chung Pui 2 hours).
3. Founder of Zhuang Online, the Zhuang’s largest online website
Dec 2001 – Present
Founder, The Zhuang Online (www.Rauz.net.cn)
4. Founder of Nong Qyaang Reading Room (儂佒讀書坊)
8 Oct. 2019 – Present
Founder, and the owner of Nong Qyaang Reading Room, a Private Reading Room and Old Zhen'an Prefecture Literature and History Resource Center, opening to the public free of charge
5. Initiator of Yang Zhuang Orthography
2007 – Present
Propose the scheme of the integrated Yang Zhuang (Dejing Zhuang) orthography based on Standard Zhuang and Bouyei, publish Liao (2010).
2018 – Present
Co-author with Sampson Lee Chun Yin, propose a new scheme of the integrated Yang Zhuang orthography (Lee & Liao 2018) based on Liao’s original Yang Zhuang orthography (2010) and the Integrated Tai Tone Box (Liao 2016):
2019 – Present
Propose a scheme of Normative Zhuang Square Character (Liao 2019), included in the following online dictionary.
2019 – Present
Composer of a Yang Zhuang-Chinese-English-Thai online dictionary, within it both Lee & Liao (2019)’s Integrated Yang Zhuang Orthography and Normative Zhuang Square Character Scheme (Liao 2019) are included.
2019 – Present
Contributor of Yang Zhuang lexical data to Kupu, a Google App for preserving endangered languages.
6. Founder of Zhuang Language Pop Music Project
2004-Present
Founder, Zhuang Pop Music Program (a language revitalization project initiated by the “the Zhuang Online” website).
2004-Present
Continuous creative works of Yang Zhuang pop song lyrics.
13th February 2005
Organizer, Debao-Jingxi Beihnongx Zhuang Pop Music Concert of Spring Festival 2005, Debao County, Guangxi, China.
3rd February 2006
Organizer, Zhuang New Music Concert of Spring Festival 2006, Jingxi County, Guangxi, China.
4th April 2006
Organizer, Bouxroxdoh Beihnongx Concert of Bouxroxdoh Festival 2006, Tianyang County, Guangxi, China.
June 2008
Producer, Beihnongx CD Album (the first pop music album in Zhuang)
28-31,Feb 2009
Organizer, Beihnongx Zhuang Pop Music Concert Tour of Spring Festival 2009 at 3 townships and villages (Nalei village 那雷村, Du'an Township 都安鄉, and Yandong Township 燕峒鄉) in Debao County, Guangxi, China.