![]() ![]() In 1946 Lau won a scholarship to become one of the first Hong Kong students to sail to Britain in the postwar era. ![]() He fled to mainland China just before the Japanese occupied Hong Kong after a fierce battle in 1941, and there suffered greatly but survived. Attending school at King's college there, Lau later graduated from the Chinese department at the University of Hong Kong under the tutelage of Professors Hsu Ti-shan and Ma Kiam. Among his published works, the authoritative Penguin translations of the core Chinese classics – the Lao Tzu (published in 1963), the Mencius (1970), and the Analects of Confucius (1979) – are unequalled in their sales and popularity, and have done much to foster western literacy in the Chinese philosophical literature.ĭin Cheuk Lau was born in Hong Kong, son of Lau King Tong, a scholar and poet who had fled from the chaotic civil wars raging on the mainland to settle under the more peaceful conditions of the British colony of Hong Kong. ![]() Professor DC Lau, who has died aged 89, was a renowned scholar of Chinese philosophy and culture. ![]()
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