Chip Tsao
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| Born |
17 August 1958 Hong Kong |
| Education |
Pui Kiu Middle School Lingnan Secondary School |
| Alma mater |
University of Warwick London School of Economics |
| Chip Tsao | |||||||||||
| Chinese | 曹捷 | ||||||||||
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| To Kit | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 陶傑 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 陶杰 | ||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Cáo Jié |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | Cou4 Zit3 |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Táo Jié |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | Tou4 Git6 |
Chip Tsao (born 17 August 1958), also known by his pen name To Kit, is a multilingual Hong Kong-based columnist, broadcaster, and writer. His writings are mostly in Chinese. He is well known for his sarcasm and wry sense of humour.
Tsao's family traces their roots back to Guangxi. His father was the vice chief editor of Ta Kung Pao, a leftwing newspaper in Hong Kong, whilst his mother was also an editor of the same paper. His maternal grandfather was a journalist of the Pearl River Daily. He was raised in Hong Kong's Wanchai district, and began reading early in his life. Tsao attended Pui Kiu Middle School and later Lingnan Secondary School in Hong Kong. During this time, his writing was once published in The New Evening Post. In 1980, he obtained a BA in English and European Literature from the University of Warwick. Then he completed a Postgraduate Diploma in International Relations from the London School of Economics. However, he states that he never thought about becoming a writer in his youth, and that his parents discouraged him from this career because they felt it would be dangerous.
Tsao is married and has two children.
Tsao began his journalism career in the United Kingdom as a reporter for the BBC and Radio Television Hong Kong. Then, famous writer Jin Yong (Louis Cha) invited him to write a regular column for Ming Pao about his experiences living abroad. It was at this time that he began to use his pen name To Kit. The name of his column in Ming Pao,"'The Golden Venture", derives from the name of a vessel that took Chinese illegal immigrants to the United States in 1993. His first book, Alongside Thames, was published in 1995.
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