Li Shuo

Li Shuo, born in 1977 in Baoding, Hebei, is a historian. He studied at the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University and the Department of History at Tsinghua University, earning master's and doctoral degrees, and once worked at the Northwest Ethnic Minority Research Center of Xinjiang University. His research focuses mainly on medieval military history, historical geography and frontier ethnic issues, and he also writes popular history. His works often center on early Chinese history and medieval military and political affairs, such as The Grand History of Confucius: Early Chinese People, Nobles and Oligarchs and Three Hundred Years of the Civil War: China's Military and Regimes from the 4th to 6th Centuries; he has also contributed to illustrated popular readers such as Illustrated China. The library holds 22 of his works, spanning history, biography and politics, with other representative titles including The Wanderer of History and a multi-volume collection. Public information is limited; his writing is known for solid historical research and fluent narrative, balancing popular history with academic study.