Song Jie

Song Jie, born in Beijing in 1952, is a professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of History at Capital Normal University. He graduated from the Department of History of Beijing Normal College in 1982 and stayed on to teach, studying Qin and Han history and ancient military geography under Professor Ning Ke and earning his doctorate. His research focuses on Qin and Han history and historical military geography. The library holds nine of his works, including key works on the pivotal battles of the Three Kingdoms, warfare and strategic terrain in that era, the Hedong region in the wars of the Western and Eastern Wei and Northern Zhou and Northern Qi, military geography and offensive-defensive strategy, the geographical hubs of ancient Chinese warfare, and profiles and analyses of Three Kingdoms figures. His writing uses historical military geography as a lens, testing geographical conditions and strategic planning against the course of campaigns, with topics centered on the Three Kingdoms and the Wei-Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, as well as Qin and Han institutional history. Aimed at readers of history, his books combine scholarly rigor with readability.