A veteran Macao educator and historian of education. Born in 1934 in Zhongshan, Guangdong, she moved to Macao in 1950 and devoted more than forty-eight years to Macao's Chinese-language education. From 1984 to 2000 she was principal of the Commercial Night Secondary School attached to the Macao Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, and long served as President of the Macao Chinese Educators Association, a standing member of the Macao Education Committee, and a member of the MSAR Preparatory Committee. Through part-time study from 1985 to 1993 she earned a master's degree in education from South China Normal University in Guangzhou. She is the author of A History of Macao Education (People's Education Press, 2002) and Traces of a Century: A Chronicle of 20th-Century Macao Education, systematic works on the local lineage of Macao schooling; she received the Macao SAR Medal of Merit – Education in 2001.
A teacher who stood at the front of Macao classrooms for nearly half a century, and who in retirement wrote the whole twentieth century of Macao education into a book — Lau Sin Peng's name is itself an archive of the city's Chinese-language schooling.
Lau Sin Peng is a veteran Macao educator and historian of education. In the dual identity of "principal and historian", she has left two clear tracks across Macao's education world: a long teaching and school-leadership career at local schools such as the Commercial Night Secondary School, and a body of scholarship — led by A History of Macao Education — that leaves a systematic academic record of the city's Chinese-language education.