Difference between revisions 949615619 and 999561714 on enwiki

< previous diff
next diff >
Chairman Butt
{{Multiple issues|
{{Notability|Bio|date=April 2020}}
{{More citations needed|date=April 2020}}
}}⏎
{{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}}
}}{{Infobox Chinese
| s  =
| t  = 吳漢源
| p  = Wú Hànyuán
| mi = 
}}{{Notability|date=April 2020}}{{Refimprove|date=April 2020}}'''Chairman Butt''' (born 14 July 1961), the [[pen name]] of '''Christopher Woo''' ([[Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation|Cantonese romanization]]: Bat Wah Lau), is a writer from [[Hong Kong]], who is 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==
{{Reflist}}

==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]

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Butt, Chairman}}
[[Category:Hong Kong writers]]
[[Category:1961 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Board game players]]


{{HongKong-writer-stub}}