About the author

Wang Xinsheng: publicly available information is limited, and little is known beyond the fact that eight of his works are in circulation, covering fields such as social culture, world history, and popular science. Judging from these works, he pays attention to the long-term development of Japanese history, having written A General History of Japan (six volumes), A Brief History of Japan, and A History of Postwar Japan, among others. He also discusses topics in Japanese history in essay form, combining systematic narrative with readability. At the same time, he took part in the compilation of Selected Works of Dewey (five volumes), which shows an interest in intellectual and cultural subjects. His other works include Li and Ren, which concerns social culture, and Primary and Secondary School Science Fiction Olympiad, which is aimed at popular science and young readers. Overall, his writing spans historical narrative, intellectual texts, and popular science, serving both specialist readers and the general public.

Written (8)

A Brief History of Japan (4th Edition) cover
Rating 4.2
A Brief History of Japan (4th Edition) 王新生 Peking University Press · 2025 Tracing the evolution of ruling entities as its main thread, this book outlines Japan's political development from the origins of history and culture,…
A Brief History of Japan cover
Rating 4.1
A Brief History of Japan 王新生 Peking University Press · 2025 A Brief History of Japan discusses the historical evolution of Japan from ancient times to the present from the perspective of general history. Taking…
A General History of Japan (Complete in Six Volumes) cover
Rating 4.3
A General History of Japan (Complete in Six Volumes) 王新生 / 王海燕 / 王金林 / 陈小法 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2024 Edited by Wang Xinsheng, a leading scholar of Japanese history at Peking University! A single set for an easy introduction to Japanese history! The bu…
Primary and Secondary School Science Fiction Olympiad cover
Rating 3.2
Primary and Secondary School Science Fiction Olympiad 《科学大众》杂志 / 王新生 / 林赋祝 / 顾扬 China Planning Press · 2023 This book covers such topics as fantastic sci-fi creating the future, the near and the far, illusion and reality, Mars as the favored child and phanto…
Essays on Japanese History cover
Rating 3.9
Essays on Japanese History 王新生 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2021 Japan: an island nation suspended alone in the sea, a singular country where refinement and wildness coexist, and a neighbor with the most complex rel…
Reason and Persons cover
Rating 4.9
Reason and Persons 德里克·帕菲特 / 王新生 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020 Parfit is a renowned contemporary philosopher and ethicist. His magnum opus, Reasons and Persons, has been hailed as the greatest substantive work in …
Selected Works of Dewey (5 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.1
Selected Works of Dewey (5 Volumes) 刘放桐 / 陈亚军 / Feng Ping / 顾红亮 / 王新生 / 王成兵 / 李业富 East China Normal University Press · 2018 When Dewey replaced Kant's self-centeredness with a focus on the interaction between the self and its environment, he gave that interaction an extreme…
A History of Postwar Japan cover
Rating 4.1
A History of Postwar Japan 王新生 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2015 Sixty-eight years have passed since the end of World War II. In China-Japan relations, this period has seen a non-diplomatic era of "people promoting …

Publishers

Shanghai Translation Publishing HouseChina Planning PressPeking University PressEast China Normal University PressJiangsu People's Publishing House