Biography
Ip was born in Hong Kong in 1950; her father was a trader, and mother was an actress. She attended St. Stephen's Girls' College, after which she read literature at the University of Hong Kong, graduating with first-class honours; she later obtained a Master of Letters degree from the University of Glasgow, where she studied Elizabethan poet, Sir Philip Sidney.
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