Wang Min

Wang Min (born 1954) is a Chinese scholar and translator based in Japan. Born in Chengde, Hebei, she is professor emerita of Hosei University and director of the Zhou Enlai Peace Research Institute. She has long devoted herself to comparative Sino-Japanese cultural studies and to the research and translation of Miyazawa Kenji's literature, with more than 180 authored and translated books to her name, and has received a commendation from Japan's Minister for Foreign Affairs. Twenty-three of her works are held in this collection, spanning a remarkably wide range of subjects: natural-history writing such as the volume on butterflies in the Lingnan insect fauna series; world history and military topics in works like The Tide of Victory and The Iron Curtain; legal and forensic-medical titles such as Forensic Notes: Behind Death and Bones; health and diet books such as 168 Intermittent Fasting; and compilations of folk literature such as Yuan Qu. Her writing serves different readerships, balancing scholarship with accessibility, and she has worked steadily in cross-cultural research and the spread of knowledge.