About the author

Han Sheng is a Chinese author of books. Public information about him is limited, and his dates of birth and death, nationality, and educational background cannot currently be verified. Eight of his works are included in the collection, spanning historical research, cultural essays, and family education, and are commonly categorized as history, philosophy, parenting, and culture. His representative works include A Study of the Nine-Rank System: Prelude to the Imperial Examinations, From Feudalism to Great Unity: Historical China in the Records of the Grand Historian, Tang: The Golden Age of Chinese History, The Silhouette of High Tang: The An Lushan Rebellion and the End of an Era, A History of the Formation of the East Asian World (New Edition), Cao Cao: A Clear-Headed Man Breaking Out of Danger, and Good Teachings Handed Down Through Generations, together with its new edition. His writing centers on historical development and institutional change, while also addressing family precepts and parent-child education, and is aimed at general readers, with clear narration and attention to the interplay between historical sources and ideas.

Written (8)

A Study of the Nine-Rank System: Prehistory of the Imperial Examination cover
Rating 4.8
A Study of the Nine-Rank System: Prehistory of the Imperial Examination 宫崎市定 / 韩昇 / 刘建英 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 A must-read in Japanese Sinology and in the political and institutional history of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Sui and Tang …
From Feudalism to Great Unity: Historical China in the Records of the Grand Historian cover
Rating 4.4
From Feudalism to Great Unity: Historical China in the Records of the Grand Historian 韩昇 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 This book is the edited transcript of Professor Han Sheng's course “Reading the Records of the Grand Historian,” recorded for Zhongdu. Having studied …
Tang: The Golden Age of Chinese History cover
Rating 4.3
Tang: The Golden Age of Chinese History Rong Xinjiang / Xin Deyong / 孟宪实 / 韩昇 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 Ten leading scholars in history and the humanities map the civilization of the High Tang in panorama, revisiting the China and the Chinese of a golden…
The Back of the High Tang: The An Lushan Rebellion and the End of a Golden Age cover
Rating 4.2
The Back of the High Tang: The An Lushan Rebellion and the End of a Golden Age 韩昇 Henan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 “In the tenth month I will most certainly come to the capital.” In the seventh month of the fourteenth year of Tianbao (755), Emperor Xuanzong of Tang…
A Historical Study of the Formation of the East Asian World (New Edition) cover
Rating 4.1
A Historical Study of the Formation of the East Asian World (New Edition) 韩昇 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 This book will undoubtedly play a very important role in helping Chinese readers understand the history of the formation of the East Asian world. It n…
Good Family Instructions Passed Down cover
Rating 4.1
Good Family Instructions Passed Down 韩昇 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 This book breaks away from the didactic or text-exegetical approach that focuses on individual ancient family instructions. Instead, it distills the e…
Good Teachings for the Family: The Foundation and Transmission of Chinese Culture (New Edition) cover
Rating 3.9
Good Teachings for the Family: The Foundation and Transmission of Chinese Culture (New Edition) 韩昇 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 This is a popular book on family precepts written by a historian and a winner of the 13th Wenjin Book Award. Its features are: first, it emphasizes st…
Cao Cao: The Sober-Minded Man Who Broke Out of a Crisis cover
Rating 4.0
Cao Cao: The Sober-Minded Man Who Broke Out of a Crisis 韩昇 Zhonghua Book Company · 2023 Was Cao Cao a cunning usurper or a capable minister? Why did he always manage to break through when surrounded by crises? Professor Han Sheng of Fudan…

Publishers

Zhonghua Book CompanyHenan Literature and Art Publishing HouseSDX Joint Publishing Company