Lo Hsiang-lin, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Lo Hsiang-lin

Chinese academic

Date of Birth: 19-Oct-1906

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1978

Profession: historian, linguist

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Lo Hsiang-lin (1906–1978) 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.
He 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.