Mingyuan Hu

Mingyuan Hu is a British historian, writer and translator.

Hu read Classics, Philosophy, and Art History at the University of Glasgow and received the Herkless Prize in 2008.[1] From the same university she received her PhD in Literary History. She was Visiting Scholar at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Lecturer in Art Histories of Asia at the University of Leeds, and Research Associate at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Hu has written Fou Lei: An Insistence on Truth and two fictions, Late Roses and Early Snow and Mnemosyne. She translates French, English and Chinese literatures. She is the founder of Hermits United, a multilingual literary press based in London and Paris, which publishes poetry, fiction, ancient and modern classics, scholarly prose and biographies.[2]