Ode to the Autumn Wind + 我愛秋風勁 (Box Set) (Out of stock)

Shek Chung-ying is the pen-name of Raymond Young. Shek was born in Hong Kong. His well-educated paternal grandfather was a comprador in Canton, China. His maternal grandfather, a successful Chinese pharmaceutical merchant, was one of the founders of Tung Wah Eastern Hospital in Hong Kong. Shek was a prolific writer in the 1970’s when he worked as an editor and later as a school teacher. His prose poetry and his commentaries on Trotskyism attracted a great deal of attention and were widely read. He later worked in the tourism and hotel industries before he founded Seligent Limited in 1988. Seligent, which became a strategic partner of the French electronic giant Thomson, played an important role in China’s television industry and in the digitalization of television broadcasting when the country began to industrialize. Seligent also orchestrated the merging of Thomson and the Chinese conglomerate TCL, thus creating the world’s largest television enterprise.

In recent years, Shek has made significant contributions to the academic and cultural worlds by sponsoring various activities and initiatives. He has established the BeiChuan Foundation Fund and the Sir Cecil Clementi Scholarship to facilitate student programmes in mainland China and Hong Kong. Shek was in the thick of Hong Kong’s 1967 riots. Using this first-hand knowledge, Shek set up Flintstone Culture, which publishes books and periodicals and produces musicals and films, mostly on themes based on the turmoil of that year. In 2010, Shek received an honorary doctorate from Lincoln University in the U.S. He is currently the university’s Honorary Professor, in addition to being Associate Dean of the Asian College of Knowledge Management and an Honorary Citizen of Foshan City, China.

石中英，原名楊宇杰，香港出生。祖父為皇仁書院畢業生，任廣州十三行買辦。外祖父何爾昌是香港東華東院創辦人之一，所成立的何世昌藥廠，產品風行東南亞數十載。石中英曾任編輯和教師，一九七零年代筆耕不輟，其抒情散文與批判托洛斯基主義的文章廣受關注，讀者甚眾。其後擱筆從商，先後任旅行社董事和酒店總經理，一九八八年創辦新駿公司，適值中國進行工業化、現代化和全球化，新駿成為法國Thomson公司在華的關鍵合作伙伴，對中國的電視機行業和電視廣播數碼化有特殊貢獻，並策劃Thomson與中國TCL集團業務合併，成功創立全球最大彩電企業。石中英近年對學術與文化貢獻顯著，積極贊助各種公益活動，創辦「北川基金」與「金文泰爵士獎學金」，分別贊助受天災影響的大陸學生到香港交流和香港學生赴英國留學，並成立「火石文化」，任書刊、音樂劇、電影出品人，尤其著重一九六七年香港暴動的研究和文學，因曾身歷其境，感受甚深。

石中英於二零一零年獲美國林肯大學頒授名譽博士銜，現為該校名譽教授，也是「亞洲知識管理學院」副院長與中國佛山市榮譽市民。