Journal to review university paper citing Hong Kong map without Victoria Harbour
Journal that published paper last July will assess complaints, while EdU defends map’s focus on administrative boundaries, not coastlines
A spokesman for the Humanities and Social Sciences Communications journal said on Wednesday that its “assessment is ongoing”.
Meanwhile, EdU defended the map, saying it was neither a distortion nor an error but a cartographic characteristic based on administrative boundaries rather than land-outline or coastline data.
An academic, who filed a complaint to the journal, told the South China Morning Post on the condition of anonymity that the paper was written by Wang Cong, an associate professor at EdU’s Chinese language studies department,
The paper was published in July last year and included a “highly absurd and severely flawed map of Hong Kong”, the academic said.