刘耀辉

Liu Yaohui is a Chinese author known for writing on historical subjects; publicly available information about him is limited, and details of his life remain unclear. Judging from the four works held in the collection, his writing follows two main directions. The first is popular world history: his representative work, Big History (Between Nothingness and All Things), attempts to trace historical developments from a broad, macro perspective. The second is the popularization of classics for young readers: his three-volume series Reading the Analects as a Young Reader recounts the turmoil of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods and the stories of outstanding scholars and statesmen of the time, turning the Analects and its historical context into accessible narrative. Overall, his works combine knowledge with readability, emphasizing the relationship between individuals and their era, and are suited to readers who wish to approach world history and pre-Qin classics in a relatively relaxed way.