Wang Jueren

Wang Jueren, whose real name is Wang Lin, was born in 1972 in Zhangzhou, Fujian. He is a Chinese writer and screenwriter for film and television, as well as a columnist for Southern Metropolis Daily and Baijia Jiangtan and a researcher of traditional culture. He has long written where history and philosophy meet, covering history books, fiction, social psychology and Eastern philosophy; the library holds 22 of his works. His representative work, Three Hundred Years of the Rise and Fall of the Tang Dynasty (formerly The Bloody High Tang), is known for its narrative drive, making the Tang's rise and fall vivid and readable, while Wang Yangming's Philosophy of Mind turns to the organization and interpretation of traditional thought. He has also written novels such as The Lanting Xu Murder Case. His historical writing emphasizes readability and storytelling, skillfully turning historical sources into coherent narratives, and has thus gained a broad readership in popular history.