Lo Hsiang-lin
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Traditional Chinese | 羅香林 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 罗香林 | ||||||||
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Lo Hsiang-lin (19 October, 1906 – 20 April, 1978) was one of the most renowned researchers in Hakka language and culture. His pioneering research in Hakka genealogy[1] showed that the Hakka are Han Chinese.
Background
Lo Hsiang-lin was born in Xingning, Guangdong in 1906 and died in 1978. He attended Xingmin middle school, Tsinghua University, and Yenching University. From 1956–1968 he was a professor in Hong Kong University'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 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."[2]
References
- ^ The Taiping Ideology: Its Sources, Interpretations, and Influences, By Vincent Yu-chung Shih, Youzhong Shi, Yu-chung Shih. University of Washington Press. 1967. ISBN 9780295739571. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
- ^ Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong, By John M. Carroll. Harvard University Press. 2005. ISBN 9780674029231. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
Publications
- Hong Kong in the Cultural Interchange of East and West (香港與中西文化之交流)
- History of Chinese Nationalities (民族生存論)
- Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Family Lineage (國父家世源流考)
- Introduction to Hakka Studies (客家研究導論)
- Study of Family Lineage in Hong Kong History (香港前代史)
- 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
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