Liu Tongyi is a Chinese novelist, essayist, poet and literary critic who writes under the pseudonym Liu Yichang. He did not grow up in Hong Kong but spent the first thirty years of his life either there or in the wartime capital Chungking, where he went upon graduating from the English-speaking St John's University in 1941. It was in Chungking that he took up the profession of newspaper editing which he practised more or less continuously until his retirement in 1991. Liu came to Hong Kong in 1948, and apart from a spell in Singapore and Malaya (1952-1957), has made it his home.
In the world of literature in Hong Kong, Liu Yichang is an institution. He has edited the leading literary periodical, Hong Kong Literature since its inception in 1985, and is Vice-president of the Federation of Hong Kong Writers. More broadly, he has been a presence and a potent force in creative writing in Hong Kong since the 1950s, through his enterprising editing of a number of newspaper literary supplements and his own output. No one has been more influential in encouraging people in Hong Kong to take literature seriously and encouraging people outside Hong Kong to take Hong Kong literature seriously.
Liu Tongyi (chino mandarín) o Lau Tung-yik (chino cantonés), nacido en Shanghai el 7 de diciembre de 1918, es un escritor chino, autor de novelas, cuentos, poesía y crítica literaria, firma con el seudónimo Liu Yichang (chino mandarín) o Lau Yee-cheung (chino cantonés). Una de sus más notables novelas de monólogo interior: Intersección (對倒) inspiró Deseando amar de Wong Kar-wai.