Huang Wenbi

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Huang.

Huang Wenbi (Chinese: 黄文弼; April 23, 1893 – December 18, 1966) was born in Hanchuan, Hubei, China. He was a Chinese modern archaeologist and studied the history and geography of northwest China. He graduated from Peking University in 1918 and became a tutor at Peking University. He participated in the Sino-Swedish Expedition to inner Mongolia and Xinjiang with Sven Hedin and Xu Bingchang from 1927 to 1930 and became a research fellow on the Sino-Swedish Expedition from 1934 to 1937. As a member of the Central Committee for the preservation of Antiquities, he was stationed in Xi'an to be a director to research the Stele Forest from 1935.

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