William Butcheremail: wbutcher at netvigator.com |
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Hongkonger Bill Butcher was Founding Director of the Language Centres at the HKIVE, and is now an independent author. He previously worked at Oxford and the ENA (Paris). Dr Butcher's main research area is the French novelist Jules Verne, on whom he has published a million words and is the authority most cited online. Recent books ◊ Joyous Miseries (Acadian, 2011) ◊ 一个中国人在中国的遭遇 (Arcadia, 2010) ◊ Le Tour du monde (Gallimard, 2009) ◊ Salon de 1857 (Acadien, 2008) Recent publications Selected notes to Captain Hatteras (Polish) "Les Episodes fantômes de Vingt mille lieues sous les mers" (en japonais) Review of Parole, personnage et sujet dans les récits littéraires de Benjamin Constant ◊ "The Quest for Jules Verne's Amazing Machines", Omega Lifetime ◊ "Introduction" in Extraordinary Voyages
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