Zhang Qin

Zhang Qin, a native of Jinan, Shandong, is a member of the China Writers Association, a freelance writer, and a history columnist for Phoenix News. He began literary writing in 1999 and has focused on history writing since 2009; the library holds 10 of his works. His writing takes Chinese history as its thread and spans both historical nonfiction and documentary literature. Representative works include the series Buxiang Qingshi Jin Chenghui (Let Not the Annals Turn to Ashes), The Revival of the Ming Dynasty: Eighteen Years of the Hongzhi Restoration, Taiwan in Turbulence, 1368–1683: Loss and Recovery in the Age of Exploration, and Four Hundred Years of the Han Dynasty. These works usually begin from specific historical periods and events, emphasizing coherent narrative and the flow of historical sources, and present turning points and details of history to general readers. Public information about his life is limited, and his profile emerges mainly through these works and his column writing.