About the author

Huang Nubo: publicly available information is limited, and his writing profile can currently be understood only through his six published works. His interests span mythology, classical poetry, historical writing and contemporary poetry, including lecture-style works such as Twenty-Five Lectures on World Mythology, Lectures on Yuan Qu, Lectures on Tang Poetry and Lectures on Biographies from the Records of the Grand Historian, as well as a socially and culturally oriented text, Life Classroom at Peking University, and a study of poetry, Nothingness and Blossoming: The Reconstruction of Modernity in Contemporary Chinese Poetry. His writing often uses the "lecture" format to organize classics in plain language, guiding ancient poetry, historical figures and mythological traditions toward contemporary readers, while also attending to questions of modernity in contemporary Chinese poetry, showing a vision that connects the classical and the modern. His works are mostly classified under social culture, culture, social sciences and classic works, and are suitable for readers who wish to gain a systematic understanding of these subjects.

Written (6)

Twenty-Five Lectures on World Mythology cover
Rating 4.1
Twenty-Five Lectures on World Mythology 叶舒宪 / 黄怒波 Peking University Press · 2025 From an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on a wealth of newly discovered archaeological evidence and knowledge, the author travels through the t…
Lectures on Yuan Qu cover
Rating 4.0
Lectures on Yuan Qu 杨栋 / 黄怒波 Peking University Press · 2025 This book is an introductory guide to Yuan qu (Yuan drama and song). It explains the basics of Yuan qu while incorporating the latest scholarship, giv…
Lectures on the Biographies in the Records of the Grand Historian cover
Rating 4.0
Lectures on the Biographies in the Records of the Grand Historian 刘国民 / 黄怒波 Peking University Press · 2025 Drawing on more than a decade of teaching and research, this book takes the biographical chapters of the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji) as its…
Peking University Life Classroom cover
Rating 4.0
Peking University Life Classroom 柯杨 / 王一方 / 刘端祺 / 黄怒波 Peking University Press · 2025 This book consists of eighteen lectures in two parts. It includes theoretical reflections on and expositions of life-and-death issues and life educati…
Lectures on Tang Poetry cover
Rating 3.9
Lectures on Tang Poetry 程郁缀 / 黄怒波 Peking University Press · 2025 This book opens with a summary overview of pre-Tang poetry and the development, overall characteristics, and major achievements of Tang poetry, then o…
Nihility and Blossoming: The Reconstruction of Modernity in Contemporary Chinese Poetry cover
Rating 3.6
Nihility and Blossoming: The Reconstruction of Modernity in Contemporary Chinese Poetry 黄怒波 · 2025 Since the 1980s, contemporary Chinese poetry has moved in step with China's modernization while confronting a risk inherent in modernity: the cultural…

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Peking University Press