Leung Long Chau (, 1911–December 1998) is a
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. Born in the early 1910s in
Guangdong Province, he graduated at the
Guangdong Medical Research Institute. In the late 1920s, he married Ho Wing Yuet and settled down in
Hong Kong
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rule, his Chinese qualification as a medical practitioner was not recognized; he thus had to turn to business to make a living. His work for a local company just made up the living expenses for his large family. In his spare time he continued to offer free medical advice to his compatriots, and to write poems and practice calligraphy—both hobbies of his since childhood.
Through the years he written many poems about Hong Kong, but at the time they remained unpublished. This changed in 1984, when his children decided to compile his works and published ''Lang Yin Xiao Cao'' () for non-commercial purposes. It was never sold in bookstores, but managed to get the attention of the close circle of Chinese poets in Hong Kong and was widely acclaimed as valuable for anyone seriously interested in
Chinese literature and
Hong Kong culture
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In 1998, the Leung family decided to publish a sequel to Lang Yin Xiao Cao, compiling his major works written after 1984. In the same year, the low-profile poet received his first and only prize for
Chinese literature from the
Hong Kong Government. He died in December 1998.
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1911 births
1998 deaths
Hong Kong poets
Hong Kong calligraphers
People from Xinhui District
Poets from Guangdong
Artists from Guangdong
20th-century Chinese poets
People's Republic of China poets
Chinese calligraphers
Chinese calligraphy
Writers from Jiangmen