Chung Li-ho ( (pinyin Zhong Lihe), Hakka transliteration: Chûng Lî-fò or Tsûng Li-fô) December 15, 1915 – August 4, 1960, was a writer from Taiwan famous mainly for fiction. He was a Liudui Hakka (), born in Gaoshu Township, Pingtung in 1915, who moved with his parents to a newly purchased fruit and coffee plantation in Meinong in around 1932. Eloping with a woman because their same-surname relationship was taboo in their community, he resided in Japanese-occupied China â Shenyang and Beijing â between 1938 and 1946. He died of pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 44 in Meinong whilst revising his last and possibly finest work, a novella entitled "Rain" ().
There is a Chung Li-ho Museum, located in Meinong, Kaohsiung is dedicated to Chung. His life has been dramatized as China, My Native Land, a 1980 film directed by Li Hsing, featuring theme and other songs by Teresa Teng. Chung's eldest son, , was an award-winning writer of fiction and prose. The asteroid 237187 Zhonglihe, discovered by Xiangyao Hsiao and Ye Quan-Zhi at Lulin Observatory in 2008, was named in his memory. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 12 October 2011 ().
T. M. McClellan, âÂÂHome and the Land: the âÂÂnativeâ fiction of Zhong LiheâÂÂ, Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese, 9.2 (December 2009): 154-182.
Zhong Lihe, From the Old Country: stories and sketches of China and Taiwan, Edited and translated by T. M. McClellan, Columbia University Press, 2014.
Zhong Tiemin é¾éµ氠ed., Exploring a Literary Landscape: the Zhong Lihe Memorial Institute and its Environs æ¢訪é¾çÂÂÃ¥ÂÂç´Â念館æ¨æÂÂå¸å°æ¯, Gaoxiong: Chunhui, 2010. ISBN 986632711-6 (bilingual volume, 99 pp., full Chinese text with English tr. by Tommy McClellan).
Lin Sheng Xiang æÂÂçÂÂ祥, ãÂÂ大å°æ¸æ¿ï¼Âå±±æÂÂãÂÂæÂÂå¸ãÂÂé¾çÂÂÃ¥ÂÂã The Land is my Study: music inspired by the literature of Zhong Lihe, trees music and art + The Zhong Lihe Trust for Culture and Education, 2010 (Music album CD; insert lyrics and notes tr. Dr Tommy McClellan).