sentences:  This extensive course of study was completed with an academic stay (1970-1971) at the New Asia College of Hong Kong (now a part of the Chinese University of Hong Kong).Billeter's studies were first funded by a grant from the University of Geneva, then by sustained financial support from the Swiss National Research Fund (FNRS).His dissertation under the supervision of Jacques Gernet was defended in 1976 in Geneva, and published in 1979.