Yau Chi-on游子安

Style & Daoist names

Yau Chi-on

Period

Contemporary

Dates

? — ?

Role

HistorianProfessor, Chu Hai College

Birthplace

Hong Kong

Life

Yau Chi-on is a Hong Kong historian, director and professor at the Centre for Hong Kong Historical and Cultural Studies at Chu Hai College, formerly on the faculty of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and elsewhere, who researches Ming–Qing morality books, the cult of Lü Dongbin, the cult of Wong Tai Sin, and the history of Hong Kong daotang. His works include Quanhua Jinzhen: Qingdai Shanshu Yanjiu [Golden Admonitions for Moral Transformation: A Study of Qing-Dynasty Morality Books] (1999), Shan yu Ren Tong: Ming Qing yilai de Cishan yu Jiaohua [Goodness Shared with All: Charity and Moral Instruction since the Ming and Qing] (2005), Heung Kong Hin Jik: Sik Sik Yuen Lishi yu Wong Tai Sin Xinyang [Manifestations in the Fragrant Harbour: The History of Sik Sik Yuen and the Cult of Wong Tai Sin] (editor), Daofeng Bainian: Xianggang Daojiao yu Daoguan [A Century of Daoist Airs: Hong Kong Daoism and Its Temples] (co-editor), and Wong Tai Sin Xinsu [Wong Tai Sin Belief and Custom], among others. He emphasizes combining documentary and field research in studying the history of Hong Kong Daoist organizations (Sik Sik Yuen, Fung Ying Seen Koon, Ching Chung Koon, and others), and is a leading scholar in the history of Hong Kong Daoism and the study of morality books. The above is drawn from publicly available academic information.

Contributions & Influence

• Researches Qing-dynasty morality books and the culture of moral exhortation
• Systematically compiled the history of Hong Kong daotang and the cult of Wong Tai Sin
• Co-edited A Century of Daoist Airs, tracing the history of Hong Kong Daoist temples

Works

• Golden Precepts for Moral Transformation: A Study of Qing-Dynasty Morality Books
• Sharing Goodness with Others
• Sacred Traces of Hong Kong (editor)
• A Century of Daoist Ethos (co-editor)