Huang Wenshan

Huang Wenshan (Chinese: 黄文山; pinyin: Huáng Wénshān, also known as Wen-shan Huang, 1898–1988) was a Chinese scholar of cultural studies, sociology, anthropology and ethnology.

As a university student he was a well-known libertarian socialist during the May Fourth Movement. In his subsequent career he became a leading advocate for the science of culturology, lecturing and publishing on the topic in Chinese and English, at first under the pen name Huang Lingshuang (Chinese: 黃凌霜; pinyin: Huáng Língshuāng) and later under his given name, while researching and teaching in China and the United States.

He was also an avid practitioner and promoter of tai chi (taijiquan), and wrote one of the earliest comprehensive and popular books on the topic in English, explaining tai chi practice in the context of its cultural and philosophical foundations. He was the grandfather of Chinese-American visual artist and film director Andrew Thomas Huang.