Robert S. Bauer

Robert Stuart Bauer (name in , born 1946) is the honorary linguistics professor at the University of Hong Kong and formerly professor of Chinese linguistics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He began his study of Cantonese in Taiwan from the United States in 1974 while he was learning Mandarin, then he continued his studies as an exchange student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1970s. In 1997, he relocated to Hong Kong permanently, just before the city's handover from British to Chinese sovereignty. The Representation of Cantonese with Chinese Characters,, "ABC Cantonese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (published in December 31, 2020)" etc. Apart from his research in Cantonese, he is also interested in other Yue dialects, the Thai language, and contact relationships among Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, and minority languages of China and Southeast Asia.