[4] In 1930, Huang lived and translated books in Maojiazhuang, West Lake,[2] and served as professor and director of the Department of Sociology at the National Central University in Nanjing.

He returned to Guangdong and became a professor at National Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, where he founded programs for students of history, sociology, anthropology and other majors, and taught courses on culturology.

In 1950, at the invitation of Alfred Louis Kroeber Huang went to Columbia University to serve as a guest scholar, and also taught at the New School in New York.

He was given a grant from the Tsinghua Foundation (chaired by Mei Yiqi) to engage in cultural studies, and returned again to live in the United States.

[2] In 1960 he began teaching at the University of Southern California, in 1961 he served as dean of the Chinese Culture Institute in Los Angeles, and in 1962 he participated in the World Sociological Congress in Washington.

[8] Huang sponsored a teaching tour of North America by tai chi master Tung Hu Ling from 1966 to 1967, including a term at the Institute in Los Angeles.

In 1973 Huang published the book Fundamentals of Tai Chi Chuan, which included an introduction to Chinese culture and philosophy, and a detailed description of the art and its movements.

One of the earliest comprehensive and popular books in English on the topic, it was subsequently released in three revised editions over the next dozen years, adding an introduction by Laura Huxley and forewords by Justin F. Stone, Prestin K. Caye, and James C.