About the author

Xu Hong is an author about whom limited public information is available. His work spans both historical research and social documentary writing. The titles On Ming and Qing Social History and Collected Essays on Ming and Qing Social History point to sustained, specialized scholarly engagement with the social history of the Ming and Qing dynasties, with attention to social structures and historical change. The Han Family's Past and Neighbors of Yandongyuan turn instead to family memory and lived space, linking individuals, families, and their times through solid detail. The documentary work Don't Forget Why You Started Just Because You've Gone Too Far: Chen Meng, We Listen to You, along with its collector's edition and two-volume version, records the words and ideas of the television figure Chen Meng and has resonated among media and journalism practitioners. Overall, his writing combines the rigor of historical training with the warmth of narrative prose, falling between social science, social culture, documentary literature, and history books, and is suited to readers interested in historical detail and true stories of real people.

Written (6)

Don't Forget Why You Set Out Just Because You Have Gone Too Far: Chen Meng, We Listen to You (Collector's Edition) cover
Rating 4.5
Don't Forget Why You Set Out Just Because You Have Gone Too Far: Chen Meng, We Listen to You (Collector's Edition) 徐泓 China Renmin University Press · 2026 Thirty years ago, the phrase "telling the stories of ordinary people themselves" became widely popular, and through it we remember Oriental Horizon · …
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Rating 4.5
Don't Forget Why You Started Because You've Gone Too Far (2 Volumes) 徐泓 / 张林 · 2025 In the 1990s, CCTV's Oriental Horizon and Phoenix TV became gathering places for idealists. That is how we came to remember "telling ordinary people's…
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Rating 4.1
Collected Essays on the Social History of the Ming and Qing Dynasties 徐泓 Peking University Press · 2025 This collection brings together eight thematic studies by the author on the social history of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The topics range over chang…
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Rating 4.2
The Neighbors of Yandong Garden 徐泓 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 A work of nonfiction by Xu Hong, professor at Peking University's School of Journalism and Communication, that gives voice to the twenty-two small bui…
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Rating 4.0
The Han Family's Past 徐泓 The Commercial Press · 2024 The Han Family Chronicles records the century of vicissitudes experienced by the Han family of "Tiancheng Hao," foremost of Tianjin's "Eight Great Hou…
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Rating 4.9
On the Social History of the Ming and Qing 何炳棣 / 徐泓 Zhonghua Book Company · 2019 The Ladder of Success in Imperial China, 550,000 characters, is the most important volume in He Bingdi's collected works and his monumental historical…

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Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing HouseZhonghua Book CompanyChina Renmin University PressPeking University PressThe Commercial Press