黄强

Huang Qiang, courtesy name Buxi, was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu, in 1963. He is a second-grade literary creator and a specially appointed professor at the School of Art, Jiangsu Open University. He has long devoted himself to the study of clothing history, Ming and Qing fiction, the economic history of real estate, and the local history of Nanjing, and is best known as a pioneer in the study of the history of Chinese underwear. He serves as a council member of the China Research Society of Jin Ping Mei and of the Jiangsu Provincial Literature and Art Critics Association. His writing balances scholarship with readability, and he has published more than twenty books on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, including Jin Ping Mei: A Survey of Objects and Customs and The Wardrobe of the Six Dynasties. Among the works held here, A Brief History of Chinese Underwear and Old-Time Elegance continue his focus on dress and everyday culture, while Creative Classrooms and the Cultivation of Creativity turns to education, showing the breadth of his subjects.