Leung Man-tao

Leung Man-tao, born in Hong Kong in 1970 with ancestral roots in Shunde, Guangdong, is a Hong Kong cultural figure and media personality. He graduated from the Department of Philosophy at Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has long worked as a writer, book reviewer and commentator on current affairs, and has hosted programmes such as *Open Book in Eight Minutes* and *One Thousand and One Nights*. His writing spans essays, cultural criticism, film and foreign literature. Eight of his works are held here, including *Common Sense*, *Wo Zhi*, the three-volume *Taste* and *Noise*, as well as talk-based writing on cinema and reading. His prose often approaches public issues and reflections on reading through everyday experience, combining an intellectual temper with plainness, and has reached a wide Chinese-language readership.