Huang, Rayson

Biography

Rayson Huang, born in 1920 in Shantou, was raised in a Christian and intellectual family. Huang’s father was the founder and headmaster of Munsang College, so Huang received an excellent education at Munsang throughout his primary school and secondary school years. He was one of the few candidates who came from a Chinese-language school and successfully gained admission into the Faculty of Science at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). He was awarded a war-time degree, since the Second World War broke out during his fourth year in HKU. During the war, he fled to Mainland China and worked as a teacher at True Light Middle School and as a researcher at Guangxi University. He later went abroad to pursue his doctoral degree at Oxford University. After graduating from Oxford, he was committed to doing research at The University of Chicago. He was once president of The University of Malaya, Nanyang University, and finally HKU until he retired.