黄悦生

Huang Yuesheng is a Chinese compiler and arranger of books. Public information about him is limited, and his identity, nationality, and dates of birth and death are not clearly recorded. Judging from the seven works included in the library, his work centers on the translation and compilation of foreign literature and popular history. His representative works include translations of Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country, Natsume Soseki's Kokoro and I Am a Cat, and Hori Tatsuo's The Wind Rises, bringing classic modern Japanese narratives to Chinese readers; they also include moving works such as Me and My Dog's 16 Years. In history, he has compiled Chen Shunchen's Shiji: Emperors and Commoners and An Outline of the Eighteen Histories: A Minimalist History of China, presenting Chinese history to general readers in an accessible way. Overall, Huang Yuesheng's works span foreign literature, social sciences, and history, emphasizing readability and popularization and providing plain, accessible texts for the dissemination of classics in the Chinese reading market.