About the author

Wang Zhenfu is an author about whom limited public information is available, but whose works are known in the Chinese book market for their strongly interdisciplinary orientation. Judging from the nine titles held in the catalogue, his writing spans the Yijing (Book of Changes), aesthetics, architectural culture, and historical archaeology. These range from systematic scholarly surveys such as A New History of Chinese Aesthetics to accessible introductions like General Knowledge of the Zhouyi, Detailed Lectures on the Zhouyi, and One Hundred Passages from the Zhouyi, which present the classical text's thought and aesthetic wisdom in plain, readable form. He also attends to traditional Chinese building and spatial experience: Architecture of China: From a Single Brick to Ten Miles of Towers approaches design, social culture, and historical memory through bricks, tiles, and buildings. His archaeology-themed set, titled loosely as Questioning the Deep Earth, Looking Up at the Stars, places fieldwork alongside imaginations of civilization. Overall, his writing combines scholarly grounding with a concern for general readers, building bridges among philosophy, history, and design for those who wish to understand the classics within a broader cultural context.

Written (9)

A New Work on the History of Chinese Aesthetics cover
Rating 4.0
A New Work on the History of Chinese Aesthetics 王振复 Peking University Press · 2025 A New History of Chinese Aesthetics adopts the concepts and methods of cultural anthropology concerning shamanism to demonstrate the relationship betw…
One Hundred Quotes from the Zhouyi (Pocket Edition) cover
Rating 3.8
One Hundred Quotes from the Zhouyi (Pocket Edition) 王振复 Zhonghua Book Company · 2025 The "One Hundred Classical Chinese Quotes" and "General Knowledge of Chinese Classics" series are "great books for everyone" published by Zhonghua Boo…
The Beauty of the Great Changes: The Aesthetic Wisdom of the Zhouyi (Aesthetic Stroll Series) cover
Rating 3.7
The Beauty of the Great Changes: The Aesthetic Wisdom of the Zhouyi (Aesthetic Stroll Series) 王振复 Peking University Press · 2025 This book uses the concepts and methods of cultural anthropology concerning shamanism to interpret the Yi, and starting from an exploration of the ima…
Detailed Lectures on the Zhouyi cover
Rating 4.0
Detailed Lectures on the Zhouyi 王振复 Zhonghua Book Company · 2024 This book offers a word-by-word, line-by-line reading of the canonical and commentarial texts of the received Zhouyi, emphasizing completeness and pre…
One Hundred Passages from the Zhouyi cover
Rating 4.0
One Hundred Passages from the Zhouyi 王振复 Zhonghua Book Company · 2024 As the foremost of the classics, the Book of Changes (Zhouyi) has been hailed as a wondrous book of the ancient East. A classic among Chinese classics…
A General Introduction to the Book of Changes cover
Rating 4.2
A General Introduction to the Book of Changes 王振复 Zhonghua Book Company · 2023 The Book of Changes (Zhouyi) has been called "the first classic of Chinese learning" and "an ancient Eastern book of wonders"—everyone wants to unders…
The Aesthetic Wisdom of the Zhouyi (Revised Edition) cover
Rating 4.0
The Aesthetic Wisdom of the Zhouyi (Revised Edition) 王振复 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2023 There are many editions of the Zhuzi Yulei. This book takes the 140-chapter old manuscript Huizhou edition of the Zhuzi Yulei held in the library of K…
Archaeology Series: Questioning the Deep Earth, Looking Up at the Stars Boxed Set (5 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.3
Archaeology Series: Questioning the Deep Earth, Looking Up at the Stars Boxed Set (5 Volumes) 黄剑华 / 齐东方 / 赵运涛 / 王振复 Zhonghua Book Company · 2022 This boxed set includes five volumes, among them *Looking at China Through Archaeology*, *From Sanxingdui to Jinsha*, *At the Archaeological Site: Ten…
Architecture China: From Half a Brick and Tile to Ten Miles of Towers and Terraces cover
Rating 4.1
Architecture China: From Half a Brick and Tile to Ten Miles of Towers and Terraces 王振复 Zhonghua Book Company · 2021 Chinese architecture encompasses countless ever-changing components and a vast array of building types; it is a matter of technology, and even more of…

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Shanghai Classics Publishing HouseZhonghua Book CompanyPeking University Press