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Gu Cheng is a history author whose work focuses on the history of the Ming and Qing dynasties; publicly available information about him is limited, and little is known about his life. Judging from the works collected here, his writing centers on two related fields: the peasant wars of the late Ming and the history of the Southern Ming. The History of the Late Ming Peasant Wars traces the social upheavals and uprisings of the late Ming, while The History of the Southern Ming follows the survival and resistance of the southern regimes after the fall of the Ming. These two books, together with other essays on Ming-Qing history, have been gathered into multi-volume collections that combine connected narrative with careful source criticism and attention to detail, reflecting an approach of reading history closely. His works are classified as history reading and suit readers interested in the political changes and military conflicts of the Ming-Qing transition.