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Huang Yongyu [Huang Yung-yü; Huang Niu; Huang Xingbin; Niu Fuzi; Zhang Guanbao]
(b Fenghuang County, Hunan Province, 9 July 1924). Chinese painter and woodcut artist of the Tujia national minority. Huang learned about woodcuts in school in Fujian Province in 1937–9 but, as a result of his expulsion for fighting, he was primarily self-taught. His parents were artists, and in 1946 he married Zhang Meixi (b 1928), also an artist. In Shanghai in 1947 he joined Lu Xun’s anti-Guomindang (KMT) movement as a woodcut artist. In 1948 he painted and made woodcuts in Taiwan, then moved to Hong Kong, where he worked as art editor for the Da gong bao, a leftist newspaper. In 1953, optimistic about the new Communist government, he returned to China to teach woodcut-printing at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. He moved back to Hong Kong in 1988, but retained his position as Professor at the Academy.
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