About the author

Li Shihua, whose pen name is Hua Ye, is a native of Yulin, Shaanxi, and a graduate of Shaanxi University of Science and Technology. He is a seasoned creative figure in cultural publishing. Public information on his birth and death dates and English name is limited, and existing accounts focus mainly on his writing and editorial work. He has held management positions in state-owned enterprises and several cultural companies, an experience that gives his writing both a practical perspective and an accessible style. The collection currently includes fifty-nine of his works, spanning culture, Eastern philosophy, management, finance and economics, and children's books. Representative titles include Remembering Old Tianjin: Traveling Through Cities with Culture, Great Lectures on Confucius, Great Lectures on Laozi: Laozi's Governance by Non-Action, Great Lectures on Mencius, Great Lectures on Zhuangzi, Great Lectures on Mozi, Great Lectures on Han Feizi, and Ten Lectures on Cultural Heritage. His writing emphasizes turning traditional culture and philosophical thought into narratives accessible to general readers, with plain language and clear organization, forming a consistent style in popular works.

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A Cultural Tour of Famous Cities: Memories of Old Tianjin cover
Rating 3.8
A Cultural Tour of Famous Cities: Memories of Old Tianjin 李世化 Contemporary World Press · 2025 In ancient times, Tianjin was nothing but a sea. Looking at a current map of China, it is not hard to see that the shape of Tianjin resembles a warhor…
The Great Lecture Hall of Confucius cover
Rating 3.8
The Great Lecture Hall of Confucius 李世化 Central Compilation & Translation Press · 2025 Half the Analects suffices to govern an empire. At the heart of Confucius's thought lies ren (benevolence), while the doctrine of zhongshu—loyalty and…
The Great Lecture Hall of Mencius cover
Rating 3.7
The Great Lecture Hall of Mencius 李世化 Central Compilation & Translation Press · 2025 Mencius was a renowned thinker and educator in ancient China and a leading representative of Confucianism during the Warring States period. He inherit…
The Great Lecture Hall of Laozi: Laozi's Governance by Non-Action cover
Rating 3.7
The Great Lecture Hall of Laozi: Laozi's Governance by Non-Action 李世化 Central Compilation & Translation Press · 2025 Laozi advocated governance through non-action, which manifested in Chinese history as the laissez-faire recuperation policies of successive dynasties.…
The Great Lecture Hall of Zhuangzi cover
Rating 3.7
The Great Lecture Hall of Zhuangzi 李世化 Central Compilation & Translation Press · 2025 More than two thousand years later, we still need Zhuangzi's transcendent wisdom, which sees through past and present. A single work, the Zhuangzi, ha…
The Great Lecture Hall of Mozi cover
Rating 3.6
The Great Lecture Hall of Mozi 李世化 Central Compilation & Translation Press · 2025 Grounded in the Mozi, this book uses plain reasoning and unadorned language to explain the profound philosophy embedded in Mozi's words, offering sign…
Ten Lectures on Cultural Heritage cover
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Ten Lectures on Cultural Heritage 李世化 Contemporary World Press · 2025 Protecting civilization means protecting memory; passing on civilization means passing on memory. Cultural heritage records the evolution of civilizat…
The Great Lecture Hall of Han Feizi cover
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The Great Lecture Hall of Han Feizi 李世化 Central Compilation & Translation Press · 2025 Han Feizi said, "The great tools of the ruler are nothing but law and statecraft." The life-and-death struggle for power taught him that to make peopl…
Thirteen Lectures on Wine Culture cover
Rating 3.5
Thirteen Lectures on Wine Culture 李世化 Contemporary World Press · 2025 Wine holds a unique place in Chinese cultural history. Sometimes like Aladdin's lamp, sometimes like Pandora's box, it has catalyzed diverse stories a…
The Sun Tzu Lecture Hall cover
Rating 3.5
The Sun Tzu Lecture Hall 李世化 Central Compilation & Translation Press · 2025 As the greatest military treatise by ancient China's greatest military strategist, The Art of War still shines with its military thought, which has in…
The Xunzi Lecture Hall cover
Rating 3.5
The Xunzi Lecture Hall 李世化 Central Compilation & Translation Press · 2025 Starting from Xunzi's fundamental ideas, this book offers an in-depth yet accessible discussion of how to conduct oneself, handle affairs, navigate th…
This Book Is All You Need for Good Eloquence cover
Rating 3.5
This Book Is All You Need for Good Eloquence 李世化 Blossom Press · 2025 Master the art of speaking and you hold a powerful advantage for success. The right words at the right moment can change a person's destiny. Someone w…
The Charm of Cities (12-Volume Set) cover
Rating 3.5
The Charm of Cities (12-Volume Set) 刘飞滨 / 岳大鹏 / 李世化 / 慕小刚 / 刘啸 / 苗学玲 / 桑广书 Contemporary World Press · 2025 This set includes Memories of Old Nanjing, Memories of Old Hangzhou, Memories of Old Chengdu, Memories of Old Shanghai, Memories of Old Beijing, Memor…
Memories of Old Wuhan cover
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Memories of Old Wuhan 李世化 Ningxia Sunshine Press Co., Ltd. · 2025 This book is a work introducing Wuhan's history, culture, and tourism. Through chapters such as "Wuhan's History and City Gates," "Wuhan's Streets, Br…
The Women of the Great Qing Imperial Palace cover
Rating 3.4
The Women of the Great Qing Imperial Palace 李世化 Enterprise Management Publishing House · 2025 The imperial harem: a battlefield where a woman does not want to fight but has no choice. Once she becomes the woman of an emperor, she begins to live…
Lessons of Power in the Great Han: The Liu Dynasty and the Family-State-Under-Heaven cover
Rating 3.4
Lessons of Power in the Great Han: The Liu Dynasty and the Family-State-Under-Heaven 李世化 Enterprise Management Publishing House · 2025 This book presents the Han dynasty as the second unified empire in Chinese history and the one that remained unified the longest; it was the world's m…
The Great Qing Mirror of Power: The Aisin Gioro Family, State, and World cover
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The Great Qing Mirror of Power: The Aisin Gioro Family, State, and World 李世化 China Commercial Publishing House · 2025 The Qing dynasty—a dynasty of both glory and humiliation, an empire at a turning point in history—ultimately failed to seize history's opportunities a…
Lessons of Power in the Great Ming: The Zhu Dynasty and the Family-State-Under-Heaven cover
Rating 3.4
Lessons of Power in the Great Ming: The Zhu Dynasty and the Family-State-Under-Heaven 李世化 Enterprise Management Publishing House · 2025 The Ming Dynasty: Power and Prestige offers a look at the Zhu family's nearly three-hundred-year rule—its light and dark, glory and pain, freedom and …
Lessons of Power in the Great Song: The Zhao Dynasty and the Family-State-Under-Heaven cover
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Lessons of Power in the Great Song: The Zhao Dynasty and the Family-State-Under-Heaven 李世化 Enterprise Management Publishing House · 2025 In thousands of years of Chinese history, most dynastic transitions were accompanied by bloodshed and massacre. The Song dynasty is a rare exception. …
Lessons of Power in the Great Tang: The Li Dynasty and the Family-State-Under-Heaven cover
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Lessons of Power in the Great Tang: The Li Dynasty and the Family-State-Under-Heaven 李世化 Enterprise Management Publishing House · 2025 The Tang dynasty is a historical peak we are proud of, and the splendor of its golden age still commands our longing. This empire, magnificent and unp…

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