Hung Huang

Who is Hung Huang?

Hung Huang is of Chinese descent, and is a television host, author, actress, blogger, media figure, and the publisher of the fashion magazine iLook. A CNN article stated that she had been referred to as "China's answer to Oprah Winfrey and Anna Wintour." Since early 2012, she has written a weekly column called ChinaFile for Women's Wear Daily.

Hung's mother, Zhang Hanzhi, worked as a translator and as an English tutor for Mao Zedong. Her mother and her father, Hong Junyan, divorced in 1973. Zhang then married Qiao Guanhua. Qiao, Hung's stepfather, was the Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China in the 1970s. Hung's mother was later accused of collaborating with the "Gang of Four" and was placed under house arrest for two years. Hung attended Vassar College. She was once married to, but has since divorced with, film director Chen Kaige. Hung worked in factories until 1998, when she agreed to take over the publication of Look, a magazine that is now known as I-Look.