About the author

Wu Guang is an author in the field of Chinese biography writing. Publicly available information about him is limited, and details such as his biographical background and nationality have not been clearly recorded. Judging from the two works held in the collection, his writing focuses on intellectual history and biography, with particular attention to major thinkers of the late Ming and early Qing periods. His representative work, Tianxia Weizhu: A Biography of Huang Zongxi, takes Huang Zongxi's life and thought as its main thread, narrating his political views and scholarly contributions; the title is drawn from Huang's famous proposition that "the realm is the master and the ruler is the guest," showing the author's grasp of the core of his subject's thought. The other work, the nine-volume Culture Celebrities Biography Series, indicates that he has taken part in writing biographies of several cultural figures and has experience with series biography subjects. Overall, Wu Guang's biographical writing tends to combine intellectual threads with historical context, in plain language, and is suited to readers interested in late Ming intellectual history and cultural figures.

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Publishers

Shanghai Classics Publishing HouseZhejiang People's Publishing House