Zhang Hongjie

Zhang Hongjie, born in 1972 and of Mongol ethnicity, is a Chinese historian and writer who currently serves as professor and researcher at the School of History, Renmin University of China. He earned his doctorate in history at Fudan University and completed postdoctoral research in the Department of History at Tsinghua University, and he has long written history books and biographies in an accessible yet rigorous style. His works often focus on political practice, imperial psychology, and the fate of scholars from the Ming and Qing dynasties to modern times, restoring historical contexts on the basis of solid sources and examining China through the lens of world history. His major works include Seven Faces of the Ming Dynasty, The Hungry Prosperity: Gains and Losses in the Qianlong Era, Biography of Zeng Guofan, The Front and Back of Zeng Guofan, and A Brief History of China: China in the Coordinates of World History. He also presented the CCTV Lecture Room series Success and Failure: On Qianlong. The library holds 29 of his works.