Ambrose King Yeo-chi, SBS, JP (Chinese: 金耀基; born 14 February 1935) is a Hong Kong sociologist, educator, writer and academic.
He graduated from Taipei Municipal Chenggong Senior High School, earned a B.A from National Taiwan University and M.A.
He employed the theoretical framework of Max Weber to study the development of Chinese culture in the process of modernisation.
He also tried to measure the costs and benefits of modernisation after the breakdown of the old Chinese dynastic orders and clan systems in the late 19th century.
He held that to understand Hong Kong, one cannot overlook two important threads, namely, colonial rule and capitalism.