For those of us who met him, Long Hwa came across as the soft-spoken, thoughtful Taiwanese; curious, but skeptical, about all-things Western. He brought with him his Asian wisdom, and enriched everybody’s horizon in a world where we care too much about details, and often ignore the essence. That doesn’t mean he did not care about those details that, at times, sweeten our lives. Among other things, he taught some of us how to do proper dumplings– operation where his two lovely teenage daughters showed us what comparative advantange in the dumpling-making art really means. (He also ‘smuggled’ a bottle of Taiwanese hard liquor in a top lounge/bar in Aarhus, just to prove to me, live, that their liquor is better than any European hard liquors; I still have the bottle, full– I like that drink as much as I like palinka: it burns! 🙂 ). Next to being a perfect host in Aarhus several times, he was a great companion in several conferences and workshops attended together, among which memorable ones in Budapest, Oslo, Tallinn, Tokyo, and several places in Denmark.Long Hwa wrote to me the following, after joining me and several colleagues to a dinner in a, as he called it, “burning-money restaurant”, in Tallinn, Estonia, September last year:
Thank you for the burning-money restaurant. That is not a bad idea, to burn some money when we are alive. I mean that it is better than getting money in the underworld, when we pass away.
He always knew better.
I will greatly miss Long Hwa: the student, the teacher, the colleague, the Friend.
Dr Buhai you are a person with a great soul.<br />Condolences to Dr Chen's family.
Condolences to the family of your friend. This is very sad but it the best way way to keep him in memory, Sebs.<br />Nico