Huang Renyu, 19 18 was born in Changsha, Hunan. He studied at Nankai University in Tianjin (1936 ~ 1938) and served as a junior officer of the National Army for ten years during and after the Anti-Japanese War. After graduating from Chengdu Central Military Academy (1940), he served as the platoon leader and acting company commander of the 14 Military Division. 1943 joined the Indian army and served as the staff officer of the new army captain. 1944 was injured in Myitkyina, Myanmar in May, and was awarded the first class merit of the armed forces. After the anti-Japanese war, he served as the third party and the chief staff of the northeast security commander. 1946 After taking the national examination, he was admitted to the United States Army Staff University. After graduation, I worked as a staff officer in the Ministry of National Defense. 1950, he retired as a major member of the Japanese delegation in China. After going to the United States again, he studied history at the University of Michigan and received his doctorate (1964). He has taught at Southern Illinois University and new york State University successively, and was a visiting associate professor at Columbia University and a researcher at the East Asian Institute of Harvard University. On June 8, 2000, he died in a hospital in northern new york at the age of 82.
Huang Renyu's famous work is Fifteen Years of Wanli, originally in English, published by Yale University Press 198 1. At that time, he wrote a book review recommendation for the famous American writer john updike in The New Yorker magazine, and the book won the American Book Award of 65438. The following year, the Chinese version of Fifteen Years of Wanli was published in Beijing, inscribed by an old friend Liao Mosha and printed on the cover. Later, Mr. Tao Xisheng appreciated this book very much, and published the Taiwan Province Provincial Edition in the Food Publishing House which he presided over, and wrote an afterword for it and attached it to the book. Since then, Huang Renyu has become a famous historian in Taiwan Province Province. He often published articles in various newspapers and collected many special books, which sold well and was unique among historians. The reason is closely related to his writing style: Huang Renyu's essays have a great historical structure, and he developed a set of interpretations of Chinese and Western history and culture by comparing his personal life experiences (junior officers of the Kuomintang personally experienced War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, realized the problems of China's social and political structure, and recognized and reflected on Western civilization after living in the United States for many years). It does not stick to the writing format of modern papers, and presents history in a more understandable way like novels, so it can attract a wide range of reading groups. He advocated re-examining history under the conditions of "long time, long distance and wide vision". Frequently discussed questions include: Why can't China manage numbers? Why can't China transform an agricultural society into a commercial society? Why can't China's administration be as rational as the West? But he described the traditional China as an "undersea sandwich"-the top is a huge bureaucratic system with no obvious difference, and the bottom is the vast number of farmers with no obvious difference. This sentence is well known and often talked about.