Zhang Da-Peng is a successful entrepreneur, investor and versatile author in Hong Kong. He established the prestigious bi-annual literary award, the Dream of Red Chamber Prize, to honor outstanding contemporary Chinese-language novels. In addition to this work, his novel The Golden Road, was first published in Chinese in 2005 by Wenhui Publishing House and Strategies for Investment in the Stock Market by Ming Pao Publishing House, 2007. He is currently active in sharing his insights on investment strategy and on a broad range of current topics in his daily blog, dpzblog.wordpress.com, which has received over one and a half million hits to date. Born in 1941 in China's wartime capital, Chongqing, during the Sino-Japanese War, Zhang Da-Peng grew up in post-war Shanghai and graduated from the Petroleum Institute in Beijing. After Deng Xiaoping's return to power in the late 1970s, Zhang immigrated to Hong Kong where he built a highly successful business over the next several decades. Among his many personal interests, Zhang enjoys playing the ancient board game weiqi, more commonly known by its Japanese name Go, and has served as the Chairman of the Hong Kong Go Association. In 2010, the Hong Kong Baptist University conferred an Honorary Fellowship upon Zhang for his exceptional accomplishments and prodigious contributions to contemporary Chinese culture and education in Hong Kong.