Huang Yusheng

Huang Yusheng was born in 1898 in Mianyang, Hubei (now Xiantao City). In 1911, he went to live with his uncle, Lu Muzhai [zh]^[1], in Tianjin. In 1915, he graduated from Tianjin Nankai High School and was admitted to the preparatory program for studying in the United States at Tsinghua University. In 1919, he went to the United States on a government scholarship and entered the University of Chicago, where he earned a master's degree in educational psychology in 1923.^{[citation needed]}

In 1925, he returned to China and took a position as a professor of philosophy at Nankai University. In 1927, he became director of the university division, and soon after was appointed secretary-general.^[2] After the outbreak of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, he assisted the old principal Zhang Boling in transferring the faculty and equipment of Nankai University to Changsha Temporary University. In 1938, as the war situation became critical, teachers and students from the three universities were forced to relocate again to Kunming, Yunnan. He was responsible for the most difficult of the three transfer routes, the "Xiang–Qian–Dian Traveling Group," serving as chairman of the "Teachers' Guidance Committee." Together with other professors such as Wen Yiduo, Yuan Fuli [zh], Li Jitong, Zeng Zhaolun, and Wu Zhengyi, he walked more than three thousand li, enduring a journey of over two months before finally arriving in Kunming. After the establishment of the National Southwestern Associated University, he served as director of campus construction. In the autumn of 1938, the university added a Teachers College, and Huang Yusheng was appointed dean, while also serving concurrently as director of its affiliated middle and primary schools.^{[citation needed]}

After the victory in the Second Sino-Japanese War, he was sent back to Tianjin by Principal Zhang Boling to resume operations at the university. He served as director of the Tianjin Municipal Education Bureau and as secretary-general of Nankai University.^{[citation needed]}

During the "Three-anti and Five-anti Campaigns" in 1952, he was once wrongfully accused of secretly storing funds. After being cleared of the charges, he, nevertheless, under political pressure, agreed to be transferred out of the education sector and was appointed director of the Tianjin Library. After the downfall of the Gang of Four, he served as vice chairman of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). He was a member of the Fifth and Sixth National Committees of the CPPCC. In 1981, he led a delegation to attend the 100th Annual Conference of the American Library Association.^[3] In 1986, he joined the Chinese Communist Party.^{[citation needed]}

He died on April 11, 1990, in Tianjin at the age of 91.^{[citation needed]}

• School Spring and Autumn: Huang Yusheng talks about "Nankai anecdotes" (the page is archived and backed up and stored in the Internet Archive)
• Huang Yusheng: Carefully cultivating China's most precious flowers