About the author

Shi Jiepeng, born in Nanchang, Jiangxi in 1971, is a writer and scholar who publishes under the pen name Liang Huiwang. He holds a doctorate in literature from Beijing Normal University, where he served as associate professor at the Institute of Ancient Books and Traditional Culture, specializing in paleography, exegesis, and the philology of pre-Qin and Han texts. His writing spans scholarship and literature, covering classical poetry, historical nonfiction, essays, and fiction; eight of his works are collected here. Representative titles include A Minor Official of the Pavilion Chief, Chu Tomb, Red Cliff, The Rule of Wen and Jing, How the Ancients Lived, and Twenty Lectures on Classical Poetry. He combines scholarly rigor with narrative verve, bringing historical detail and the fortunes of ordinary people vividly to life.

Written (10)

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Rating 4.0
Tingzhang Xiao Wu: A Lowly Clerk's Rise Through Officialdom 史杰鹏 Shanxi People's Publishing House · 2026 A neo-historical novel set against the political backdrop of the final years of Emperor Wu of Han, it tells the story of a low-ranking official well v…
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Rating 3.8
How the Ancients Lived 史杰鹏 · 2026 What life was like in ancient China is a matter of individual opinion, but Shi Jiepeng, the author known as "Dawang," may have given the most down-to-…
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Rating 4.1
My Heart Is Longing: Liang Huiwang's Twenty Lectures on Classical Poetry 史杰鹏 Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2025 A book of close reading and original insight into classical Chinese poetry. Four thousand years of Chinese history, three thousand years of classical …
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Rating 3.9
Green Plums and Warm Wine: Talking of the Western Han and the Rule of Wen and Jing 史杰鹏 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 Emperor Wen of Han, Liu Heng, faced powerful ministers at court and pressure from vassal kings abroad. With exceptional political skill he consolidate…
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Rating 3.8
The Chu Tomb 史杰鹏 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 Young scholar Fang Zijiao accidentally obtains a wooden figurine unearthed from a tomb of the Warring States period. He discovers that the figurine co…
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Rating 3.8
Thin Worldly Sentiments 史杰鹏 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2025 This book selects more than fifty essays and prose pieces by the author, mainly recollections of childhood. In calm strokes the author depicts the har…
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Rating 3.8
Life in Ancient Times Was Not Easy 史杰鹏 Jiuzhou Press · 2025 Spanning historical details from the pre-Qin period to the Song and Ming dynasties, this book examines ancient social systems, legal frameworks, cultu…
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Rating 3.5
Red Cliffs 史杰鹏 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2025 【This book is the novelization of the film of the same name. Its author, Shi Jiepeng, was one of the screenwriters of John Woo's blockbuster Red Cliff…
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Humanities of China Bestselling Collection II: 7 Books (Chinese Edition) Chen Qiaosheng / Jiang Xiaodong / Zhang Mei / 檀作文 / Wan Xi / Zhao Changzheng / 史杰鹏 / 张敏杰 / Liao Judian China Intercontinental Press · 2015 This is one of the digital collections in the "Humanities of China Series" (also known as the "New Edition Humanities of China" series) from China Int…
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The Chu Tomb 史杰鹏 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2014 Historical novels are hard because both the history and the fiction must hold up, and Shi Jiepeng happens to have the credentials for both: he was tra…

Publishers

Jiuzhou PressChina Intercontinental PressBeijing October Arts & Literature Publishing HouseBeijing United Publishing Co., Ltd.Shanxi People's Publishing HouseGuangdong People's Publishing HouseGuangxi Normal University PressJiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House