Lo Hui-min (; 1925-2006) was a Chinese and Australian historian of the late Qing and Republican periods, best-known for his work on

George Ernest Morrison George Ernest Morrison (4 February 1862 – 30 May 1920) was an Australian journalist, political adviser to and representative of the government of the Republic of China during the First World War and owner of the then largest Asiatic library ...

and Ku Hung-ming. Born in Shanghai, he spent his childhood near

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and his adolescence in Singapore before attending

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. He completed a Ph.D. in History

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in 1953 under the supervision of

Victor Purcell Victor William Williams Saunders Purcell Order of St Michael and St George, CMG (26 January 1896 – 2 January 1965) was a British Colonialism, colonial public servant, historian, poet, and Sinology, Sinologist in British Malaya, Malaya (now Malay ...

. He joined

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in 1963, having been approached by

C. P. Fitzgerald Charles Patrick Fitzgerald (5 March 190213 April 1992) was a British people, British historian and writer whose academic career occurred mostly in Australia. He was a professor of East Asian studies with particular focus on China. Early life and ...

on a visit to London. He gave the George Ernest Morrison Lecture in Ethnology in 1976 and was elected a Fellow of The

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in 1981.

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called him "a learned scholar with the best instincts of a journalist", and

Wang Gungwu Wang Gungwu, (; born 9 October 1930) is a Chinese-Singaporean historian, sinologist, and writer. He is a historian of China and Southeast Asia. He has studied and written about the Chinese diaspora, but he has objected to the use of the word ...

wrote upon Lo's death, "For his work on modern Chinese history, he demanded the highest standards of accuracy. He worried over every fact and detail, always determined to provide his reader with the most complete information possible. Thus I know that everything he has written can be relied upon and only regret that he did not write more. His herculean and efforts to edit the Morrison Diaries earned him considerable respect."{{Cite web, date=2018-01-11, title=The Tradition of China Watching, url=https://chinaheritage.net/journal/the-tradition-of-china-watching/, access-date=2021-07-10, website=China Heritage, language=en-US{{Cite journal, last=Mackerras, first=Colin, date=2007, title=Lo Hui-min (1925?–2006), url=http://www.humanities.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/AAH-Obit-Lo-2006.pdf, journal=Australian Academy of the Humanities, Proceedings, publisher=

, volume=32, pages=48–52 He published in

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, East Asian, and

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