Liang Fengyi (Entrepreneur)

Dr. Anita Leung Fung‑yee (born 17 January 1949) is a Hong Kong entrepreneur and bestselling novelist. She founded Diligent Media Services and has published over 100 works of historical and financial fiction—often set against the backdrop of Hong Kong’s business world and celebrating female empowerment. Despite her literary success, she describes herself as “essentially a businesswoman.”

Leung has been married twice: first to Cantonese linguist Mr. Ho Man‑wai (1972–1985), and then to Legislative Council member Mr. Wong Yi‑wing (m. 1995; widowed 2021). In October 2010 she was appointed as a member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

Early life

Anita Leung is an only child born into a comfortable family in postwar Hong Kong. She attended Precious Blood Primary School (graduated 1960) and Precious Blood Girls’ Secondary School (Form Five 1965; Form Six 1966). She enrolled in the History Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1966, earning her B.A. in 1970 and M.A. in 1972. In 1972 she moved to London, working part‑time as a library assistant at the University of London while furthering her studies. She later studied in the United States before returning to Hong Kong in 1975.

Career

After returning to Hong Kong, Leung worked as a scriptwriter for Jade Television (1975) and in 1977 founded Belief Philippine Domestic Helpers Agency, Hong Kong’s first company specializing in Filipino domestic staff. She later held senior PR and advertising roles at Sun Hung Kai Properties and Ogilvy & Mather, and in 1985 joined the International Affairs Department of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as Head of International Relations.

In 1989 she published her first novel, _Silence Speaks_, launching her career as a pioneer of “financial fiction.” Over the next decades she published dozens of bestsellers and in 1995 took Diligent Media Services public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (Stock Code: 02366), becoming the territory’s first listed TV‑drama production and media‑services firm.

Property

In February 2018 she paid HK$93.1 million for a duplex at Kensington Hill, setting record per‑square‑foot prices in the building.

Legal matters

In May 2020 the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) sued Leung and her late husband for alleged misappropriation of HK$70 million from Diligent Media. In September 2023 the High Court granted an injunction requiring her to notify the SFC before selling any Hong Kong or Shanghai properties amid reports she plans to emigrate to Canada.

Philanthropy and naming honors

Leung has donated generously to education: at Chung Chi College (CUHK), the “Leung Fung‑yee Building” houses student‑development facilities and guest accommodation; at Precious Blood Girls’ Secondary School her gift funded the “Leung Fung‑yee Hall.”

Selected works

• _Last Night’s Long Wind_
• _Gold‑leaf Pages_
• _Love and Regret_
• _Court of Flowers_
• _Thousand Piles of Snow_
• _Drunk in Red Dust_
• _Regret of the Past_
• _Tears of the Red World_
• _Chance Returns_
• _Empress of Hearts_
• _Winds of Change_
• _Hearts Exchanged_
• _Modern Fairy Tale_
• _Financial Storm_
• _Three Hundred Days of Passion_
• _Crossing Time_
• _Sunset over the Forbidden City_
• _Rise to the Ninth Heaven_
• _Autumn Returns_
• _Waves of Homeward Voyage_
• _Chasing Dusk_
• _Deep Feelings_
• _Decades Under the Fence_

External links

• Xinhua profile: “Anita Leung Fung‑yee” (2004)
• HKEX: Diligent Media Services Ltd (Stock Code 02366)