About the Author

Hanson Chan, writer of Chinese novels and screenplays, was born in Taishan, Guangdong Province, China. He grew up in Hong Kong, migrated to America while he was a teenage, and received his Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Maryland and his Master's in Asian Studies from Seton Hall University in USA. He was a reporter, editor, and feature columnist for several Chinese newspapers in Hong Kong as well as in New York City. In terms of his early activity in the Chinese community, he had been known and highly respected for his major role in helping the re-publication of the China Daily News in the 70's in New York City and the establishing of its branch in San Francisco, after it had been reduced to almost a weekly for more than a decade. He was also recognized as an organizer in the civil rights movement among the Chinese-Americans, especially for issues of patient rights in health care and outreach programs of the community services of the Gouverneur Hospital when it was still a fully medical institution. As a writer, he is credited for his many famous martial arts screenplays: "Swordsman II," "Once Upon a Time in China II, III, IV," and a series of action novels on Chinese martial arts, "Hua Hu, Book I: The Forbidden Scripture; Hua Hu, Book II: The Thunder Spell." His best-known literary work, Chinese History Made Easy (now available both in Chinese and in English), was originally published in Simplified Chinese in 2008, and then its second edition in 2011 by Xinhua Publishing in Beijing, China. Currently, a fully translated English edition is also available at Amazon.com. He lives with his wife, Lan, in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania, USA.