Journal paper

Issue No.	No. 35
Title	An Investigation into Lo Hsiang-lin’s Date of Birth
Author	Koon-piu Ho, Clara Wing-chung Ho
Page	177-219
Abstract	Lo Hsiang-lin was an eminent contemporary historian. Ever since his lifetime, there have been hundreds of articles on his life and scholarship. However, there are many versions of the date of his birth and unfortunately only very few people have noticed those discrepancies. This article attempts to identify the most reliable version of Lo’s birthday. 　　In reviewing all available versions including those appeared in printed academic writings, research tools, and major websites, the present authors find that the chaotic phenomenon concerning Lo’s date of birth to a large extent owes its origin from Lo himself. This is because Lo used different dates of birth or years of age at different stages of his life. Most researchers only pick conveniently one version from one particular source and fail to notice the existence of conflicting versions in other sources. In order to exhaust all the available versions of Lo’s date of birth and to find out which version is the most reliable, the authors have gone through Lo’s works, letters, certificates, curriculum vitae, as well as genealogical records of the Lo’s clan and various archives of the institutes which Lo was affiliated. The authors find that the most prevailing version is October 19, 1906, but this date was actually only used by Lo subsequent to his exodus from China into Hong Kong after 1949. The most reliable date of birth of Lo is, however, the eleventh day of the ninth moon of either the thirtieth year or the thirty-first year of Emperor Kuang-hsü’s reign, i.e., October 19, 1904 or October 9, 1905.
Keyword	Lo Hsiang-lin, date of birth, University of Hong Kong, Hsing-ning
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