Hsü Kuang-p'ing (1907-), was the wife of Lu Hsün (Chou Shu-jen, q.v.). After his death in 1936, she began to collect and edit his unpublished works to write articles about him. After 1949 she served the Central People's Government as a member of many committees and delegations.

Little is known about Hsü Kuang-p'ing's background or childhood except that she was a native of P'anyü, Kwangtung. After being graduated from a junior normal school in Canton, she became a teacher. To further her education and avoid an arranged marriage, she left Canton and went to Peking. In 1923 Hsü Kuang-p'ing entered the Peking Women's Higher Normal School, where she majored in literature. At this time, Lu Hsün (Choü Shu-jen, q.v.) was teaching at the school and at National Peking University. In March 1925 Hsü wrote to Lu Hsün asking for advice and guidance. Thus began a regular correspondence, which later was collected and published as Liang-ti shu. As a student, Hsü's chief interests were literature and politics. She contributed essays to the magazine Mang-yuan [thicket], of which Lu Hsün was the chief editor; and she served as chairman of the students association at the school. In May 1925 she led a student movement to oust the principal. As a result, she was suspended from school. Lu Hsim also participated in the movement, and he was dismissed temporarily from his ministry of education post.

After being graduated from the Women's Higher Normal School, Hsü Kuang-p'ing left Peking in May 1926 to teach at the Women's Normal School in Canton, where she also was in charge of student discipline. She resigned about six months later because of student disturbances. After Lu Hsün became head of the Chinese literature department and academic dean at Sun Yat-sen University, Hsü Kuangp'ing became his assistant and common-law wife. In April 1927 Lu Hsün resigned, protesting the Kuomintang's persecution of leftist students at Sun Yat-sen University. He and Hsü remained in Canton for a few months, and on September 27th, a boy was born to them. They named him Hai-ying.

In October 1927 Hsü Kuang-p'ing, Lu Hsün, and their child left Canton and went to live in Shanghai. Their life was not peaceful: after 1930 Lu Hsün was under constant threat of arrest because of his leftist activities and his hostility to the Kuomintang. Hsü Kuang-p'ing was his constant companion and provided him with a family life that undoubtedly was his refuge and consolation.

After Lu Hsün died in 1936, Hsü remained in Shanghai. She began to edit and collate Lu Hsün's unpublished works and to write articles of reminiscence. After the Sino-Japanese war broke out in 1937, she and Cheng Chen-to (q.v.) organized the Fu She [recovery society] to promote the anti-Japanese movement. She was arrested by the Japanese on 15 December 1941 and imprisoned for two months. She remained in Shanghai throughout the period of Japanese occupation. When the war ended, Hsü Kuang-p'ing became the editor of the Min-chu [democratic weekly] and a delegate to the National Assembly. She also was active in women's organizations, serving as chairman of the Shanghai Women's Fellowship Society and the Shanghai branch of the China Women's Federation.

After 1949, Hsü Kuang-p'ing served the Central People's Government in such positions as: a member of the standing committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Democratic Women; board member of the Chinese People's Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries; and member of the standing committee of the China Association for Promoting Democracy. However, there is no evidence that she became a member of the Chinese Communist party. She served as head or a member of many delegations to foreign countries, including those to: the anniversary of the October Revolution in Moscow (1948, 1953); the fifth council meeting of the Women's International Democratic Federation in Geneva 1955); the Second World Conference for the Prohibition of Nuclear Bombs in Nagasaki and Tokyo (1956); the Congress on Disarmament and International Cooperation in Sweden (1958); and the Afro-Asian Writers Conference in Tashkent (1958).

Hsü Kuang-p'ing's chief contributions to Chinese literature were her work in editing and collating Lu Hsün's work and her writings about him. Among her important publications is her edition of the Lu Hsün shu-chien [letters of Lu Hsün], originally published in 1946. She also contributed to the Lu Hsün ch'uan-chi [complete works of Lu Hsün], published in Peking in 1957.