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鄧佩玲，香港大學中文學院副教授，畢業於香港中文大學中國語言及文學系，獲文學士、哲學碩士及哲學博士學位。2013年起任教於香港大學；此前曾於香港教育大學先後擔任專任導師、博士後研究員及助理教授。

多年來，鄧教授主要從事中國古文字學、出土文獻、上古漢語及先秦古籍研究，尤其以殷周金文與戰國楚簡為核心材料，探討早期中國文字、語言與文本問題。已出版三部學術專著，分別為《天命、鬼神與祝禱：東周金文嘏辭探論》（藝文印書館，2011年）、《〈雅〉〈頌〉與出土文獻新證》（北京商務印書館，2017年）及《新出兩周金文及文例研究》（上海古籍出版社，2019年），並已發表學術論文逾五十篇。先後獲香港研究資助局資助五項研究計劃，其中四項已完成，包括「《詩經》與金文文獻語言的對比分析研究」、「兩周金文銘辭文例研究」、「《尚書》與金文文獻語言的比較研究」及「商周金文虛詞：古文字學、語法學及文獻學的綜合研究」；另一項「清華簡虛詞研究：古文字學、語法學與文獻學的跨學科考察」將於2027年初開展。

教學方面，開設的課程包括CHIN1117「古代漢語導論」、CHIN2138「文字學」、CHIN2164「《論語》與中國文化」及CHIN6101「文字學專題研究」，並且擔任哲學碩士及哲學博士研究生導師。

Tang Pui Ling is an Associate Professor in the School of Chinese at The University of Hong Kong. She received her BA, MPhil, and PhD in Chinese Language and Literature from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Before joining HKU in 2013, she served as a Teaching Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong Institute of Education (now The Education University of Hong Kong).

Professor Tang’s research centers on Chinese paleography, early Chinese manuscript studies, Old Chinese grammar, and early Chinese texts. With Shang Zhou bronze inscriptions and Warring States Chu bamboo manuscripts as her principal sources, she investigates writing, language, and the formation and transmission of texts in early China. She has authored three monographs and published more than fifty scholarly articles.

Professor Tang has received funding from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council for five research projects. Her completed projects include “A Contrastive Analysis of the Language Between Shijing and Bronze Inscriptions of the Pre-Qin Period,” “Research on Textual Patterns of Bronze Inscriptions of the Zhou Dynasty,” “A Comparative Study of the Language of Shangshu and Bronze Inscriptions,” and “Function Words of Shang and Zhou Bronze Inscriptions: A Study from the Paleographical, Grammatical, and Philological Perspectives.” Her newly secured RGC-funded project, “Function Words in the Tsinghua Bamboo Slips: An Interdisciplinary Study Integrating Paleographic, Grammatical, and Philological Approaches,” will commence in early 2027.

Professor Tang teaches CHIN1117 “General Introduction to Classical Chinese Language,” CHIN2138 “Chinese Etymology,” CHIN2164 “The Analects and Chinese Culture,” and CHIN6101 “Special Topics in Chinese Etymology.” She also supervises MPhil and PhD students.