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Chairman Butt
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{{Infobox person
|name=Christopher Woo
| native_name      = {{nobold|吳漢源}}⏎
|image=Bat Wah Lau.jpg
|caption=Bat Wah Lau at a book expo in 2001
|alma_mater=[[Queen's College, Hong Kong]]<br>[[University of Hong Kong]]
|birth_date={{birth date and age|1961|7|14}}
}}
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!style="background:#ccf; border-bottom:1px solid" colspan=2|[[Chinese name|Names]]
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|align=right|Known in English as:||Chairman Butt (pen name)<br>Christopher Woo (personal name)
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|align=right style="border-top:1px solid"|Known in [[Chinese language|Chinese]] as:||style="border-top:1px solid"|吳漢源
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|align=right|[[Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation|Government Romanization]]:||Ng Hon Yuen
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|align=right|[[Jyutping]]:||Ng4 Hon3 Jyun4
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|align=right|[[Pinyin]]:||Wú Hànyuán
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|align=right style="border-top:1px solid"|[[Pen name]]:||style="border-top:1px solid"|畢華流
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|align=right|[[Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation|Government Romanization]]:||Bat Wah Lau
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|align=right|[[Jyutping]]:||Bat1 Waa4 Lau4
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|align=right|[[Pinyin]]:||Bǐ Huáliú
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|}⏎
{{Infobox Chinese
| s  =
| t  = 吳漢源
| p  = Wú Hànyuán
| mi = 
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'''Chairman Butt''' (born 1961-07-14), the [[pen name]] of '''Christopher Woo''' ([[Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation|Cantonese romanization]]: Bat Wah Lau), is a [[Hong Kong]] writer, currently a secondary school teacher teaching Chinese, a columnist, and a part-time writer.

His earliest work was reflecting his secondary school life as a student and gained his popularity among teenagers, while he was teaching. His later works include fictions reflecting his career as a teacher. Butt wrote several non-fictions in [[astrology]] and other subjects.

Butt is an enthusiastic player in [[board game]]s like [[Dungeons & Dragons]]. He won the 1996 [[Monopoly (game)|Monopoly]] World Championship held in [[Monte Carlo]],<ref>http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/hong-kong-wins-world-monopoly-game-championship-156415975.html</ref> subsequently writing a book about it, and helped a lot in promoting [[tabletop role-playing game]]s in Hong Kong.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20091027084326/http://hk.geocities.com/vice_cathedral/mc_front.htm  The English Translation of Christopher Butt's Major Work – Mulberry-Catalpa Saga]

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[[Category:Hong Kong writers]]
[[Category:1961 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Board game players]]


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