Sang Bing

Sang Bing, born in March 1956 in Guilin, Guangxi, with ancestral roots in Weixian, Hebei, is a historian of modern and contemporary China. He holds a doctorate in history and has served as a professor in the Department of History and director of the Center for Modern Chinese Studies at Sun Yat-sen University. He is now a senior liberal arts professor and doctoral supervisor at Zhejiang University, and is recognized as the first historian to receive the Ministry of Education's "Changjiang Scholar" Distinguished Professorship. His long-term research covers the transformation of knowledge and institutions in modern China, scholars and scholarship since the Qing dynasty, and the history of modern Sino-Japanese relations. Five of his works are included in the collection, among them Gengzi Qiwang and Late Qing Politics, The Rise of the New Culture Movement (Volume One), National Studies in the Late Qing and Republican China, and Looking at the Big Picture: Protracted War and On Protracted War. These works focus on political change, intellectual and academic evolution, and Sino-Japanese relations from the late Qing to the Republican period, and have influenced readers interested in Eastern philosophy, history, and culture.