Mingyuan Hu

Mingyuan Hu is a British historian and publisher.

Hu read Classics, Philosophy and Art History at the University of Glasgow, winning the Herkless Prize in 2008. From the same university she received her PhD in Literature.

Between 2008 and 2023, she held teaching positions at the University of Glasgow and University of Leeds, and research positions at Victoria & Albert Museum and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Author of Fou Lei and two fictions, she translates French, English, and Chinese literatures. She is the founder of Hermits United, a multilingual literary press in London and Paris.

Selected works
Monographs Translations
 * Fou Lei: An Insistence on Truth (Brill, 2017; Hermits United, 2023) ISBN 9789004343917; ISBN 9781739389703
 * Late Roses and Early Snow (Hermits United, 2022) ISBN 9781999883324
 * Mnemosyne (Hermits United, 2022) ISBN 9781999883331
 * Toward Bravery and Other Poems (Hermits United, 2017; 2022) by Mu Xin. ISBN 9781999883300; ISBN 9781999883317
 * Oratory and Democracy in China: Four Dialogues from the Annals of the Warring States (Hermits United, 2022) ISBN 9781739115609
 * Virtue Politics: Mencius on Kingly Rule (Hermits United, 2023) ISBN 9781739115616
 * The Assassins of Confucius (Hermits United, 2023) by Jean Levi, translated from the French, Les Assassins de Confucius. ISBN 9781999883362
 * Good Beyond Evil: Xunzi on Human Nature (Hermits United, 2023) ISBN 9781739115623
 * Realpolitik: Han Fei on Mighty Reign (Hermits United, 2023) ISBN 9781739115630
 * 京劇改革 (Hermits United, 2023) by Maël Renouard, translated from the French, La réforme de l'opéra de Pékin. ISBN 9781999883379
 * The Red Detachment of Women (Hermits United, 2023) by Jiang Yun, co-translated with Annelise Finegan. ISBN 9781739389710