Hung Huang ( is an American-Chinese television host, author, actress, blogger, media figure, and the publisher of the fashion magazine ''iLook''.
Personal life
Hung's mother,
Zhang Hanzhi
Zhang Hanzhi (; 14 July 1935 – 26 January 2008) was a Chinese diplomat who was Mao Zedong's English teacher and U.S. President Richard Nixon's interpreter during his historic 1972 trip to China.
Early life and education
Zhang was born in S ...
worked as a translator and English tutor for
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong pronounced ; also romanised traditionally as Mao Tse-tung. (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC) ...
. Her mother and her father, Hong Junyan (洪君彦), divorced in 1973. Zhang then married
Qiao Guanhua
Qiao Guanhua (; March 28, 1913 – September 22, 1983 ." ''
Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China in the 1970s. Hung's mother was later accused of collaborating with the Gang of Four and was placed under house arrest for two years. Hung attended
Vassar College
Vassar College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States, closely foll ...
.
Hung married three times, all of them ended in divorce. Her first husband is the film director
Chen Kaige
Chen Kaige (; born 12 August 1952) is a Chinese film director and a leading figure of the fifth generation of Chinese cinema.Berry, Michael (2002). "Chen Kaige: Historical Revolution and Cinematic Rebellion" in Speaking in Images: Interviews wi ...
. In 2006, Hung adopted a daughter from
Sichuan
Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...
.
Career
Hung worked in factories until 1998, when she agreed to take over the publication of ''Look'', a magazine that is now known as ''I-Look''.
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CNN
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article stated that she had been referred to as "China's answer to Oprah Winfrey and
Anna Wintour
Dame Anna Wintour (; born 3 November 1949) is a British journalist based in New York City who has served as editor-in-Chief of ''Vogue'' since 1988 and Global Chief Content Officer for Condé Nast since 2020; she is also the artistic directo ...
." Since early 2012, she has written a weekly column called ChinaFile for
Women's Wear Daily
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She has been selected by the Time magazine as one of the world's 100 most influential people in 2011.
CNN
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China Daily
''China Daily'' () is an English-language daily newspaper owned by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
Overview
''China Daily'' has the widest print circulation of any English-language newspaper in China. T ...