Mingyuan Hu is a British historian, writer and translator.

Hu read Classics, Philosophy, and Art History at the University of Glasgow and received the Herkless Prize in 2008.[1] From the same university she received her PhD in Literary History. She was Visiting Scholar at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Lecturer in Art Histories of Asia at the University of Leeds, and Research Associate at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Hu has written Fou Lei and two fictions, Late Roses and Early Snow and Mnemosyne. She translates French, English and Chinese literatures. She is the founder of Hermits United, a multilingual literary press based in London and Paris, which publishes poetry, fiction, ancient and modern classics, scholarly prose and biographies.[2]

Selected works

Monographs

  • Fou Lei: An Insistence on Truth (Brill, 2017) ISBN 9789004343917 (Hermits United, 2023) ISBN 9781739389703
  • Late Roses and Early Snow (Hermits United, 2022) ISBN 9781999883324
  • Mnemosyne (Hermits United, 2022) ISBN 9781999883331

Translations

  • Toward Bravery and Other Poems (Hermits United, 2017; 2022) by Mu Xin ISBN 9781999883300; ISBN 9781999883317
  • Oratory and Democracy in China: four dialogues from the Annals of the Warring States. (Hermits United, 2022) ISBN 9781739115609
  • Virtue Politics: Mencius on kingly rule (Hermits United, 2023) ISBN 9781739115616
  • The Assassins of Confucius (Hermits United, 2023) by Jean Levi ISBN 9781999883362
  • Good Beyond Evil: Xunzi on human nature (Hermits United, 2023) ISBN 9781739115623
  • Realpolitik: Han Fei on mighty reign (Hermits United, 2023) ISBN 9781739115630
  • 京劇改革 (Hermits United, 2023) by Maël Renouard ISBN 9781999883379
  • The Red Detachment of Women (Hermits United, 2023) by Jiang Yun, co-translated with Annelise Finegan ISBN 9781739389710

References

  1. ↑ "Dr Mingyuan Hu, Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin". HU Berlin. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  2. ↑ "Information". Hermits United. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
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