Professor Lao Sze-kwang taught at the Department of Philosophy at Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1964 to 1985, and served as the Head of the Department of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and Princeton University in the United States, as well as a fellow at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan.
Professor Lao is a prolific author with a body of work that includes more than 30 books, including the 3-volume History of Chinese Philosophy, a -volume collection of his own earlier works, A New Compilation of Professor Lao Sze-kwang’s Academic Works (13 volumes); Lectures on Philosophy of Culture; Illusion and Hope: On Contemporary Philosophy and Culture; The World of Crisis and the New Century of Hope: On Contemporary Philosophy and Culture, II; Chinese Culture’s Way Ahead: New Reflections; Philosophical Essays; and Selected Poems of Lao Sze-Kwang. His History of Chinese Philosophy has been a must-read for teachers and students of history of Chinese philosophy or Chinese thought in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
