黄菡

Public information about Huang Han is limited; her dates of birth and death, nationality, and educational background are not clearly documented. The library holds four of her works, spanning a fairly wide range of subjects, including Western philosophy, philosophical reading, documentary literature, and prose essays. Representative titles include In Praise of Idleness, The Way to Happiness, and The Shape of Your Life: 16 Letters from Coleridge to Young People, as well as the documentary work The Formation of the Working Class's Labor Tradition: An Oral History of the Luoyang Mining Machinery Plant (1953–2019). This range suggests that she attends both to Western philosophy and the theme of happiness in life, and to non-fiction writing that uses oral history to record the labor traditions and factory history of workers. Her writing tends toward reflective reading and humanistic documentary work, combining accessible expression with historical preservation.