Lo Hsiang-lin

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 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 to 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."