To Kit

To Kit is the pseudonym of Chip Tsao, a Hong Kong-based columnist-. As a broadcaster, he is famous for his wry sense of humour. His writings abound with metaphors, and his best works are notable for their quality.

Tsao is married with two sons named Tsao Tai-Ching and Tsao Tai-Yee.

Childhood

His home county is Guangxi. His father was the vice chief editor of ''Ta Kung Pao,'' a leftist newspaper in Hong Kong, whilst his mother was also an editor of the same paper. His maternal grandfather was a journalist of ''Pearl River Daily''. He was fetched up in Wanchai, he read literary works when he was young. He started writing during his secondary school studies and got his works published on ''The New Evening Post''.

School life

*Primary School:
*Secondary: Pui Kiu Middle School, Lingnan Secondary School
*Tertiary: the University of Warwick, Bachelor in English Literature. London School of Economics Diploma in International Relations.

Career

To Kit was, in fact, a reporter-turned-columnist. Before using his pen to earn his butter and bread, he had been working at BBC for eight years, and a journalist of Radio Television Hong Kong accredited in the . When he returned to Hong Kong, he worked as a columnist for the renowned Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao ; the column is called 'The Golden Venture' , the name of a vessel that took illegal immigrants to the United States in 1993. He also writes a column for the Oriental Daily News and another for Ming Pao Monthly , an intellectual magazine.

Eventually he joined a team of to host a weekly programme on RTHK called 'Free as Wind' . The hosts of the programme would choose one topical issue, and discuss it critically. In Sept 2003, he switched to another radio station, the Commercial Radio Hong Kong to host a daily radio show similar to 'Free as Wind' called 'Summit' , at which point he also switched his newspaper affiliation to Apple Daily.

Political viewpoints

To Kit did not hide his apparent disgust with the current Hong Kong administration, especially Tung Chee Hwa, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong. In his newspaper column, he once openly called for Tung to step down.

To is unusual in that although he was raised in a leftist family, he praises the governance of the British colonial administration throughout his columns and maintains that it was superior to the current administration. An admirer of former American President Ronald Reagan, To is said to be one of the most public figures in Hong Kong.

Works

His work, both on radio and in his columns, concentrates on the following subjects:
* Governance of Hong Kong and the difference between pre- and post-reunification of Hong Kong with mainland China
* The essence of classic Chinese and western civilization
* Difference between the Chinese and the Westerners
* The 'peasant mentality' of the Chinese
* films
* Prominent women .

Publications

Major works of To: