Lo Wai-luen

Lo Wai-luen, who writes under the pen names Siu Si, Ming Chuan and Lo Fan, was born in Hong Kong in 1939 with family roots in Panyu, Guangdong, and is a Hong Kong literary scholar and essayist. The Chinese University of Hong Kong Literature Database's profile records that she graduated from the Chinese Department of New Asia College, CUHK, in 1964, took an education diploma at the Grantham College of Education in 1965 and taught in secondary schools; that she went to the Institute for Research in Humanities at Kyoto University in 1973 to study modern Chinese literature, took a master's degree at the University of Hong Kong in 1981, and taught in the CUHK Chinese Department from 1979 until retiring in 2002. From 2002 she served voluntarily as head of CUHK's Hong Kong Literature Research Centre and donated her books and writers' files to the university library, forming the Hong Kong Literature Special Collection; she received the Hong Kong Arts Development Council's Outstanding Arts Contribution Award in 2010 and its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016. Her books include the essay collections On the Road, Notes on Receiving Teaching and Hong Kong Stories.