Huang Xianfan

Huang Xianfan was born November 13, 1899, into the Zhuang ethnic group in China. He built a career across three overlapping domains: history, ethnology, and education. His work focused on recording and analyzing the societies of China's ethnic minorities, particularly those in the south, at a time when such scholarship was marginal. He taught, wrote, and shaped how those communities were understood within Chinese academia. Huang died January 18, 1982, having spent more than half a century in the field.