Huang Ai (; born 1919 – September 28, 2008) better known by his pen name Huang Yushi (), was a Chinese translator. He is among the first few in China who translated the works of Charles Dickens's into Chinese language.

Biography

Huang was born in Zhongxiang, Hubei in 1919.

Huang Ai

He graduated from Tsinghua University in 1950, where he majored in English language. After graduation, Huang worked in the People's Literature Publishing House, he translated Selected Works of Mao Zedong from Chinese to English in 1950s.

Huang Ai

Translations

Selected Works of Mao Zedong () Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens) () The Shipwreck (Rabindranath Tagore) () The Way of All Flesh (Samuel Butler) () Rainbow (D. H. Lawrence) () (Joseph Conrad) Joseph Conrad () A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce) ()

Huang Ai

Awards

Chinese Translation Association - Senior Translator (2004)

Personal life

Huang has a son, Huang Yisi (), who also a translator.

References

1919 births

People from Jingmen

Tsinghua University alumni

English–Chinese translators

Chinese–English translators

2008 deaths

20th-century Chinese translators

21st-century Chinese translators