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

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. His pioneering research in Hakka genealogy showed that the Hakka are

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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 {{China-historian-stub