Yang Nianqun

Yang Nianqun was born in Beijing in 1964. He is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Qing History, Renmin University of China, director of its Qing History Research Center, and a member of the National Qing History Compilation Committee. His research focuses on Chinese political history, social history, and intellectual history. His writings center on Qing political culture and the intellectual transformations of modern China. His representative works include How the Mandate of Heaven Shifted: The Formation and Practice of the Qing Vision of Great Unity, Where Is Jiangnan? The Establishment of Qing Orthodoxy and Changes in the Intellectual World, and The Other Side of the May Fourth Movement: The Formation of the Idea of Society and the Birth of New Organizations, as well as The Glory and Frustration of the Qing Dynasty and A Cat's-Eye View of People. Combining scholarly depth with readability, these works are often categorized as history, documentary literature, and social science, and have exerted a certain influence among readers.