Ho Che Wah obtained his Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Philosophy from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He presently holds the positions of the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Chinese Language and Literature in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Director of the D. C. Lau Research Centre for Chinese Ancient Texts at the Institute of Chinese Studies, and the Associate Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies.

His research areas include ancient Chinese texts, Chinese textual criticism, and the compilation of reference books. He is currently working on “A Study of Xunzi Literature” (a project funded by the Professor Chow Tse-tsung and Professor Lau Din-cheuk Memorial Fund for Literature and the Research Matching Grant Scheme).

He has published over fifty monographs, including: The Intratextuality and Intertextuality of the Xunzi, A Review and Reflection on the Bamboo Slip Text Wenzi, A Glimpse into the Lüshi Chunqiu, Collected Exegeses on the Variants in Classical Commentaries, Studies in Zhuangzi and Xunzi, Collected Essays on the Meaning of the Classics, A Guide and Translation of the Lüshi Chunqiu, Collected Essays on Gao You’s Commentaries on the Lüshi Chunqiu and the Huainanzi, A Textual Study of Classical Canons: From the Shijing, Shangshu to Shiji, and The New Evidence Which Points to the Date of the Wenzi, among others. Additionally, he has published over thirty academic journal articles and edited more than eighty volumes in ICS Concordances to Works of Pre-Han and Han Concordance Series and ICS Concordances to Works of Wei-Jin and the Northern and Southern Dynasties Concordance Series. He has served as the principal investigator of the CHANT Database, which contains approximately 87 million characters of texts, including oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, excavated wood/bamboo and silk scripts, and the transmitted texts from the Pre-Han period to the Six Dynasties, as well as Tang and Song leishu.