Ray Huang (Chinese: 黃仁宇; pinyin: Huáng Rényǔ; 25 June 1918 – 8 January 2000) was a Chinese-American historian and philosopher who was an officer in the National Revolutionary Army and fought in the Burma Campaign.
[citation needed] Huang grew up in Hunan and went on to study electrical engineering at Nankai University, Tianjin, in 1936.
[citation needed] Soon afterwards, Huang entered the Republic of China Military Academy (中華民國陸軍官校) at Chengdu, Sichuan, and graduated in 1940.
[citation needed] After the war he attended the US Army Staff College, graduated in 1947, and was aide-de-camp to the head of the Chinese military delegation participating in the Allied occupation of Japan from 1949 to 1950.
[citation needed] However, with the victory of the Communists in the Chinese Civil War and the escape from Mainland China of the Nationalist Army in 1949, the latter was purged of political opponents in 1950.
Around the late 1970s, he retired from teaching and focused on writing instead and even occasionally contributed to a column in Yazhou Zhoukan.