Wenguang Huang

Wenguang Huang is a writer, journalist, and translator whose articles and translations have been published in the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Paris Review, and the Christian Science Monitor. He is most recently the author of the memoir The Little Red Guard and the translator for Liao Yiwu’s For a Song and One Hundred Songs, The Corpse Walker, and God Is Red.

Books

The Little Red Guard by Wenguang Huang

The Little Red Guard by Wenguang Huang

The Little Red Guard | A Family Memoir by Wenguang Huang tells story of devotion to traditional Chinese practices during a time of political change. After his grandmother became obsessed with having a proper burial, Huang's father built her a coffin. Huang was appointed as coffin keeper, a distinction that included sleeping next to the coffin at night.
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A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel by Pin Ho and Wenguang Huang

A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel by Pin Ho and Wenguang Huang

A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel | Murder, Money, and an Epic Power Struggle in China by Pin Ho and Wenguang Huang recounts the corrupt Bo Xilai family's story. Scandals including the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood; Bo’s secret lovers; and the trial of Gu Kailai, Bo’s wife were the first rumble of a seismic power struggle that continues to rock the very foundation of China’s Communist Party
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