馬克．奧尼爾（Mark O’Neill）

Mark O’Neill was born in London and educated at New College, Oxford University. Mark has worked in Asia since 1978, in Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, China and Japan, for the BBC, Reuters, the South China Morning Post and other media. He has written 16 books, of which eight have editions in Chinese, traditional and simplified:

• Father Of The Pinyin Writing System
• The Man Who Made China A Literate Nation – Zhou Youguan
• Why Foreigners Like Hong Kong
• Israel and China: From the Tang Dynasty to Silicon Wadi
• Ireland’s Imperial Mandarin: How Sir Robert Hart Become the Most Influential Foreigner in Qing China
• The Miraculous History of China’s Two Palace Museums
• The Second Tang Dynasty — The 12 Sons of Fragrant Mountain Who Changed China
• From the Tsar’s Railway to the Red Army
• The Chinese Labour Corps
• Frederick, the Life of My Missionary Grandfather in Manchuria
• Tzu Chi — Serving with Compassion

He lived in Beijing and Shanghai for more than 16 years. Now he works as an author, journalist and teacher, based in Hong Kong. He speaks and writes Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), French and Japanese.