Shakespeare is not the only wordsmith to “shuffle off this mortal coil” 400 years ago. The Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra hasn’t had as much fanfare as the 400th anniversary of the bard’s passing in 2016. The main character of Don Quixote in Cervantes’s classic The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, has […]
Author Archives: Jennifer Eagleton
Jennifer Eagleton, a Hong Kong resident since 1997, is a policy committee member of the Hong Kong Democratic Foundation and was an adviser to the University of Hong Kong’s “Designing Democracy Hong Kong” project. Her PhD analyzed how Hong Kong talks about democracy through metaphor. She is a teacher of English and linguistics as well as researcher and editor.