About the author

He Wei, a native of Hefei, Anhui Province, holds a master's degree in Chinese from Dalian University of Technology and has worked in the field of writing and editing for many years. Her writing and editorial work span popular history, literary appreciation, and urban culture. She has contributed to the "One City, One Book" travel series, including volumes on Beijing, Nanjing, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Kunming, and Xi'an, as well as to works such as Colors in Poetry, The Sui and Tang Dynasties: A World of Many Nations, and The Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods: A Hundred Schools of Thought. She has also edited and published books including Jiang Baili's Lectures on the History of the European Renaissance, Cao Bohan's Lectures on Chinese Studies, and Li Dazhao's Lectures on the Fundamentals of Historiography. Public information about her is limited, and few details of her personal life are recorded. Her existing works suggest that she is skilled at presenting historical developments and the pleasures of poetry and prose in an accessible style, balancing informative content with readability for general readers.

Written (14)

Elegant Whisk: Traces of Wine Idly Accompany the Dust on Plain Robes cover
Rating 3.4
Elegant Whisk: Traces of Wine Idly Accompany the Dust on Plain Robes He Wei Taibai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 As a book puts it: incense lends seclusion, wine distance, tea freshness, the qin stillness, chess leisure, the sword chivalry, the staff lightness, t…
One City, One Book: A Rambling Journey Through Kunming cover
Rating 3.5
One City, One Book: A Rambling Journey Through Kunming He Wei · 2022 "One City, One Book" is a series of literary collections themed around cities, gathering poems, essays, and other works by various writers about a par…
Ouyang Xiu: Where in Life Is It Like Before the Wine Cup? cover
Rating 2.8
Ouyang Xiu: Where in Life Is It Like Before the Wine Cup? He Wei / 隋忠静 Hohai University Press · 2022 Ouyang Xiu, courtesy name Yongshu, styled Zuiweng and later Liuyi Jushi, was a renowned statesman, man of letters, and historian of the Song dynasty a…
Colors in Poetry cover
Rating 2.8
Colors in Poetry He Wei Hohai University Press · 2022 This series selects poems on the themes of "architecture," "plants," "animals," "food," "clothing," and "color," pairing them with hand-drawn illustra…
One City, One Book: A Roaming Journey Through Hangzhou cover
Rating 3.4
One City, One Book: A Roaming Journey Through Hangzhou He Wei Hohai University Press · 2021 "One City, One Book" is a literary series themed around "the city," collecting poems, essays, and other works by various writers about a given city. B…
Spring and Autumn and Warring States: The Contention of a Hundred Schools of Thought cover
Rating 3.4
Spring and Autumn and Warring States: The Contention of a Hundred Schools of Thought He Wei Hohai University Press · 2021 This book traces the arc of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods largely through stories. This era saw China's first great fracture—and al…
One City, One Book: A Rambling Journey Through Xi'an cover
Rating 3.3
One City, One Book: A Rambling Journey Through Xi'an He Wei Hohai University Press · 2021 Through stories of the same city, it is passed down endlessly, becoming a mark and forming an atlas of the city's own style. With one book, it records…
One City, One Book: A Rambling Tour of Chengdu cover
Rating 3.2
One City, One Book: A Rambling Tour of Chengdu He Wei Hohai University Press · 2021 “One City, One Book” is a literary anthology themed on the city, gathering poems, essays, and other works about it by various writers. By telling diff…
One City, One Book: A Rambling Journey Through Beijing cover
Rating 3.0
One City, One Book: A Rambling Journey Through Beijing He Wei Hohai University Press · 2021 This series is a collection of literary works themed around “the city,” gathering poetry, essays, and sketches by various writers about a particular c…
One City, One Book: A Rambling Journey through Nanjing cover
Rating 2.6
One City, One Book: A Rambling Journey through Nanjing He Wei Hohai University Press · 2021 “One City, One Book” is a series of literary anthologies themed around cities, gathering poems, essays, and other works about each city by various wri…
Elegant Rhymes Collection: Selected Classical Poems: Pity for the Beauty: A Branch of Red Beauty, Fragrant with Dew cover
Rating 3.3
Elegant Rhymes Collection: Selected Classical Poems: Pity for the Beauty: A Branch of Red Beauty, Fragrant with Dew He Wei Taibai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2020 In the writings of men of letters, the “beauty” embodied the poet’s longing and yearning for beautiful love, and also his ideals. This book gathers th…
Sui and Tang: Myriad Nations Come to Court cover
Rating 3.2
Sui and Tang: Myriad Nations Come to Court He Wei Hohai University Press · 2020 During the Sui and Tang dynasties, China returned to great unity, and ethnic integration was gradually completed. New political systems, economic syst…
Elegant Rhymes Collection · Selected Ancient Poems: Flower's Charm: Freely Flying Petals Are Light as a Dream cover
Rating 3.0
Elegant Rhymes Collection · Selected Ancient Poems: Flower's Charm: Freely Flying Petals Are Light as a Dream He Wei Taibai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2020 A book says: incense lends quiet depth, wine lends distance, tea lends clarity, the qin lends stillness, chess lends leisure, the sword lends chivalry…
Elegant Rhymes Collection · Selected Ancient Poems: Tea's Crispness: A Guest Comes on a Cold Night, and Tea Serves as Wine cover
Rating 3.0
Elegant Rhymes Collection · Selected Ancient Poems: Tea's Crispness: A Guest Comes on a Cold Night, and Tea Serves as Wine He Wei Taibai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2020 In the eyes of literati and poets, the “beauty” embodied both the poet’s longing and yearning for beautiful love, and the poet’s ideals. This book gat…

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Taibai Literature and Art Publishing HouseHohai University Press