Chan Man Wai (born 29 January 1985[1]) is a Chinese screenwriter who began his career in Hong Kong.
He has written over 40 films and TV series in Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China.
[2] During the Cultural Revolution he laboured as a sent-down youth in the mountains of Yongding in southwestern Fujian.
[3] After the Cultural Revolution, he migrated to British Hong Kong in 1978, doing odd-and-end jobs for 3 years before deciding to write fiction.
One of his works was published in the magazine Southern Movies (南國電影), run by the renowned Shaw Brothers Studio, which hired him as a screenwriter shortly thereafter.