Chi Shuangming

Donglizi, whose real name is Chi Shuangming, was born in 1968 in Handan, Hebei. He graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Jilin University in 1992. He has worked as a middle school teacher and as an editor at the Handan Steel Newspaper, and later served as chief editor at Beijing Hongtu Juji Company. He has long been engaged in translating and annotating Chinese classics and in popular writing on literature and history, and edited the "Complete Compendium of Chinese Classics" series. His works are mostly aimed at general readers, drawing on pre-Qin philosophy and historical events from various dynasties, and he is skilled at interpreting classics through essays, interviews, and storytelling in a plain style with personal reflections. The library contains six of his works, including Reading and Understanding the Caigentan, My Exclusive Interview with Zhuangzi, Confucius's Wisdom Microblog, and the "Chinese Historical Records: Absolutely Interesting Series," commonly classified under Eastern philosophy and historical reading.