Lo Hsiang-lin (19 October, 1906 – 20 April, 1978) was one of the most renowned researchers in
Hakka language
Hakka (, , ) forms a language group of varieties of Chinese, spoken natively by the Hakka people throughout Southern China and Taiwan and throughout the diaspora areas of East Asia, Southeast Asia and in overseas Chinese communities around ...
and
culture
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. His pioneering research in Hakka genealogy showed that the Hakka are
Han Chinese
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.
Background
Lo Hsiang-lin was born in
Xingning, Guangdong in 1906 and died in 1978. He attended Xingmin middle school,
Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University (; abbr. THU) is a national public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education.
The university is a member of the C9 League, Double First Class University Plan, Projec ...
, and
Yenching University
Yenching University (), was a university in Beijing, China, that was formed out of the merger of four Christian colleges between the years 1915 and 1920. The term "Yenching" comes from an alternative name for old Beijing, derived from its status ...
. From 1956–1968 he was a professor in
Hong Kong University
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) (Chinese: 香港大學) is a public research university in Hong Kong. Founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, it is the oldest tertiary institution in Hong Kong. HKU was also the fir ...
's Chinese department. In 1969, he became the first director of the Research Institute of Chinese Literature and History,
Chu Hai College.
Hong Kong
In 1963, Lo Hsiang-lin was widely recognized for his depictions of
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...
as a center for cultural interchange between Eastern and Western civilizations, saying, "Friendship between nations, like friendship between persons, grows only where there is mutual respect and give and take."
References
Publications
* ''Hong Kong in the Cultural Interchange of East and West'' ()
* ''History of Chinese Nationalities'' ()
* ''Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Family Lineage'' ()
* ''Introduction to Hakka Studies'' ()
* ''Study of Family Lineage in Hong Kong History'' ()
* 客家源流考
1906 births
1978 deaths
Republic of China historians
20th-century Hong Kong historians
Chu Hai College of Higher Education faculty
Hong Kong people of Hakka descent
Tsinghua University alumni
Chinese folklorists
Yenching University alumni
University of Hong Kong faculty
People from Xingning
Writers from Meizhou
Linguists from China
Scientists from Guangdong
Hakka scientists
Hakka writers
Historians from Guangdong
20th-century linguists
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