Lo Hsiang-lin (19 October 1906 – 20 April 1978) was one of the most renowned researchers in

Hakka language Hakka ( zh, c=, p=Kèjiāhuà; ''Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: '', zh, c=, p=Kèjiāyǔ; ''Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: '') forms a language group of varieties of Chinese, spoken natively by the Hakka people in parts of Southern China, Taiwan, some diaspora areas of ...

and

culture Culture ( ) is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and Social norm, norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, Social norm, customs, capabilities, Attitude (psychology), attitudes ...

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

Han Chinese The Han Chinese, alternatively the Han people, are an East Asian people, East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China. With a global population of over 1.4 billion, the Han Chinese are the list of contemporary ethnic groups, world's la ...

Background

Lo Hsiang-lin was born in Xingning, Guangdong in 1906 and died in 1978. He attended Xingmin middle school,

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (THU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Constructio ...

, and

Yenching University Yenching University () was a Private university, private research university in Beijing, China, from 1919 to 1952. The university was formed out of the merger of four Christian colleges between the years 1915 and 1920. The term "Yenching" come ...

. From 1956 to 1968 he was a professor in

Hong Kong University The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is a public research university in Pokfulam, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese by the London Missionary Society and formally established as the University of ...

'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)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

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 20th-century Chinese historians 20th-century Hong Kong historians Academic staff of Chu Hai College of Higher Education Hong Kong people of Hakka descent Tsinghua University alumni Chinese folklorists Yenching University alumni Academic staff of the University of Hong Kong 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