About the author

Zhang Tianjie is an author about whom little public information is available; his writing and editorial work center on traditional Chinese family precepts, clan culture, and intellectual figures. Seven of his works are held in the collection, including annotated translations of family-instruction texts such as the Zeng Guofan Family Precepts (two volumes), the Lu Longqi Family Precepts (two volumes), the Lü Liuliang Family Precepts, and Xunzi Yu, as well as a study of the family traditions of notable Jiaxing clans. He has also written biographies of Zhang Lüxiang and Fu Guang. His work is grounded in close reading and annotation of primary sources, balancing accessibility with scholarship, and focuses on Eastern philosophy, culture, and social sciences, showing sustained attention to the Jiangnan Confucian tradition and the teaching of family values.

Written (7)

Family Traditions and Instructions of Prominent Clans in Jiaxing cover
Rating 3.8
Family Traditions and Instructions of Prominent Clans in Jiaxing 张天杰 / 张猛 Sino-Culture Press · 2026 In premodern times, Jiaxing was a fertile ground for talent and a home to numerous distinguished families. The prominent clans of the Jiaxing region h…
A Critical Biography of Zhang Lüxiang cover
Rating 3.6
A Critical Biography of Zhang Lüxiang 张天杰 Sino-Culture Press · 2025 Zhang Lüxiang: A Critical Biography. Zhang Lüxiang (1611–1674), courtesy name Kaofu, alternate sobriquet Nianzhi, was a native of Tongxiang County, Ji…
Biography of Fu Guang cover
Rating 3.5
Biography of Fu Guang 张天杰 / 郁震宏 Sino-Culture Press · 2025 This book is divided into ten chapters, recounting the main life events and scholarly thought of the Southern Song thinker Fu Guang. Fu Guang, courtes…
Words on Instructing Children (Translated and Annotated) cover
Rating 3.8
Words on Instructing Children (Translated and Annotated) 张履祥 / 张天杰 / 余荣军 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2021 This book centers on Zhang Luxiang's Maxims for Instructing My Children (Xunzi Yu), supplemented by thirteen other important related texts, forming a …
Annotated Translation of Zeng Guofan's Family Instructions (2 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.3
Annotated Translation of Zeng Guofan's Family Instructions (2 Volumes) Zeng Guofan / 张天杰 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 This project selects famous works and notable texts from family-instruction materials across the ages, carefully collates and edits them, and adds int…
Annotated Translation of Lu Longqi's Family Instructions (2 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.0
Annotated Translation of Lu Longqi's Family Instructions (2 Volumes) 陆陇其 / 张猛 / 张天杰 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 This project selects famous works and notable chapters from the family-instruction literature of successive dynasties, carefully collating and organiz…
The Family Instructions of Lü Liuliang, Translated and Annotated cover
Rating 3.7
The Family Instructions of Lü Liuliang, Translated and Annotated 吕留良 / 张天杰 / 鲁东平 / 王晓霞 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 This project selects famous works and notable texts from family instruction literature across the ages, carefully collates and edits them, and adds in…

Publishers

Shanghai Classics Publishing HouseSino-Culture Press