Lo Hsiang-lin is one of the most renowned researchers in Hakka language and culture

Hakka people

The Hakka , sometimes Hakka Han, are Han Chinese who speak the Hakka language and have links to the provincial areas of Guangdong, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan and Fujian in China....

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

Han Chinese

Han Chinese are an ethnic group native to China and are the largest single ethnic group in the world.Han Chinese constitute about 92% of the population of the People's Republic of China , 98% of the population of the Republic of China , 78% of the population of Singapore, and about 20% of the...

. He was born in Xingning

Xingning

Xingning is a county-level city, under the jurisdiction of Meizhou, in Guangdong province of the People's Republic of China.- History :Xingning county was established in 331 CE.Xingning was the capital of the 10th-century Southern Han Dynasty....

, Guangdong in 1906 and died in 1978. He attended Xingmin middle school, Tsinghua University

Tsinghua University

Tsinghua University , colloquially known in Chinese as Qinghua, is a university in Beijing, China. The school is one of the nine universities of the C9 League. It was established in 1911 under the name "Tsinghua Xuetang" or "Tsinghua College" and was renamed the "Tsinghua School" one year later...

, and Yenching University

Yenching University

Yenching University was a university in Beijing, China. It integrated three Christian colleges in the city in 1919. Yenching is an alternative name of Beijing - derived from its status as capital of Yan state, one of the seven Warring States from 5th century BC to 3rd century BC.The 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

Chu Hai College of Higher Education

Chu Hai College of Higher Education is a private degree-granting institute in Hong Kong. The college is best known for its journalism and Chinese history programmes.The college plans to acquire university status in Hong Kong in or before 2012.-History:...

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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

See also

• Hakka people
  Hakka people
  The Hakka , sometimes Hakka Han, are Han Chinese who speak the Hakka language and have links to the provincial areas of Guangdong, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan and Fujian in China....