Bat Wah Lau
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Names | |
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Known in English as: | Christopher Woo |
Known in Chinese as: | 吳漢源 |
Government Romanization: | Ng Hon Yuen |
Jyutping: | Ng4 Hon3 Jyun4 |
Pinyin: | Wú Hànyuán |
Pen name: | 畢華流 |
Government Romanization: | Bat Wah Lau |
Jyutping: | Bat1 Waa4 Lau4 |
Pinyin: | Bǐ Huáliú |
Christopher Woo (pen name: Bat Wah Lau) (born 1961) is a Hong Kong writer, currently a secondary school teacher teaching Chinese, a columnist, and a part-time writer.
His earliest work was reflecting his secondary school life as a student and gained his popularity among teenagers, while he was teaching. His later works include fictions reflecting his career as a teacher. Woo wrote several non-fictions in astrology and other subjects.
Woo is an enthusiastic player in board games like Dungeons & Dragons. He won the 1995 Monopoly World Champion held in Monte Carlo, subsequently writing a book about it, and helped a lot in promoting tabletop role-playing games in Hong Kong.