方明

Fang Ming, whose real name is Fang Xiangming, traces his ancestral roots to Huanggang, Hubei, was born in Heilongjiang and grew up in Beijing. He graduated from the History Department of Hubei University in 1982 and once served as vice president of the Hubei Provincial Local Chronicles Society. His writing spans two fields: historical documentary works and finance and management. He is the author of more than ten historical titles, including Wuhan's Old Charms, The Entanglements of Whampoa Generals, A Special Battle and the National Martyrdom series, and has published roughly four million characters of biography and reportage. He has also addressed contemporary economic and financial issues in works such as Japanese Debt, Negative Interest Rates and the Liquidity Trap, Metaverse Grand Finance and Short Videos: Restructuring the Dividends of a New Era, and has written a life of the celebrated cultural figure in The Unrestrained Master of Couplets. His writing combines a grounding in historical sources with concern for present-day realities.