Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2004

Versatile Scholar, Global Citizen: Fung Si Yu Hong Kong Rhodes Scholar 2004 ‘In her final-year studies at the University, Fung Si Yu is a translation major minoring in English. She will begin her second Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy, politics and economics at St. Edmund Hall of the University of Oxford this coming October on the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. WordsandFigures Si Yu, the sixth Hong Kong Rhodes Scholar from CUHK in the last nine years, entered the University after completing her s c h o o l i ng at Diocesan Girls' School. Her initial major was information engineering. ‘I liked working with both words and figures. However after studying IE for a year, I realized that I preferred wo r d s, so I switched to translation,' she related. It was a good move and Si Yu was soon fascinated by the different specialty areas of translation, such as literature, law, finance and science. It also sparked her interest in languages and cultures, and she began taking French in her sophomore year. She spent a month last summer in Lyons practising her French and soaking up the culture. 3 8 Chinese University Bulletin Spring • Summer 2004