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Wenguang Huang

Born: 1965 in Xian, China
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Wenguang came to Illinois when he was 25 years old.

Biography: Wenguang Huang, a Chicago-based journalist, writer and translator. He is the author of ''The Little Red Guard'', a memoir that chronicles his growing up in central China during the 1970s. He came to Springfield, Illinois in 1990 and became the first international student admitted into the Public Affairs Reporting Program, working in the state legislature's research division. Huang earned his master’s degree in 1991 from what was then Sangamon State University, now University of Illinois Springfield.Huang has served as a staff researcher for the New York Times Beijing bureau, division manager of media relations for Rotary International, assistant vice president of corporate affairs for HSBC-North America, and as a writer for AON Corporation. He has written for ''The Paris Review'', ''Harper's'', the ''Christian Science Monitor'', the ''Chicago Tribune'' and the ''Asia Literary Review'' and has been the English translator of several books including: ''The Corpse Walker'', ''God is Red'' and ''For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey through a Chinese Prison'' by Lian Yiwu, and ''Woman from Shanghai'' by Yang Xianhui.Today, Huang lives in Chicago and works as a news officer at the University of Chicago.


Awards:
  • '''''The Little Red Guard'''''
  • -- Best Pick, Washington Post, 2012
  • -- Starred Review, Publishers Weekly

Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction; Other

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Wenguang Huang on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=wenguang+huang+


Selected Titles

A death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel :
ISBN: 1610392736 OCLC: 808421315

"The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Party factions, one that reached all the way to China's new president Xi Jinping. The scandalous story of the corruption of the Bo Xilai family--the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood; Bo's secret lovers; the secret maneuverings of Bo's supporters; the hasty trial and sentencing of Gu Kailai, Bo's wife--was just the first rumble of a seismic power struggle that continues to rock the very foundation of China's all-powerful Communist Party. By the time it is over, the machinations in Beijing and throughout the country that began with Bo's fall could affect China's economic development and disrupt the world's political and economic order. Pin Ho and Wenguang Huang have pieced together the details of this fascinating political drama from firsthand reporting and an unrivaled array of sources, some very high in the Chinese government. This was the first scandal in China to play out in the international media--details were leaked, sometimes invented, to non-Chinese news outlets as part of the power plays that rippled through the government. The attempt to manipulate the Western media, especially, was a fundamental dimension to the story, and one that affected some of the early reporting. A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel returns to the scene of the crime and shows not only what happened in Room 1605 but how the threat of the story was every bit as important in the life and death struggle for power that followed. It touched celebrities and billionaires and redrew the cast of the new leadership of the Communist Party. The ghost of Neil Heywood haunts China to this day"--

The little red guard :
ISBN: 1594488290 OCLC: 761846622

Riverhead Books, New York : 2012.

Traces a Communist Chinese family's fifteen-year struggle to honor a grandmother's dying wish to be buried in spite of a national ban of traditional Chinese practices, an effort that pitted family members against one another and risked their capture by authorities.

The Little red guard :
ISBN: 9781594486555 OCLC: 832316157

Riverhead Books, New York : 2013.

Traces a Communist Chinese family's fifteen-year struggle to honor a grandmother's dying wish to be buried in spite of a national ban of traditional Chinese practices, an effort that pitted family members against one another and risked their capture by authorities.

 

 

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