About the author
Yao Ping: publicly available information is limited, and no confirmed biographical details are presently known. The seven works collected here nonetheless indicate the general range of the author's interests. The writing spans Chinese history, gender and society, law, and education: there are focused historical studies grounded in source materials, such as Remembering Life: Epitaphs in Chinese History, The Life Course of Tang Dynasty Women, and Society and Gender Culture in the Tang Dynasty; a legal guide for everyday life, Family Harmony: A Lawyer Talks About Family Matters; participation in editing interviews with historians in Pioneers: Interviews with Distinguished Historians; and an account of cross-cultural teaching, Teaching History in America: From Desk to Lectern. A further title, Escape Route, leans toward foreign literature. Overall, Yao Ping's writing balances scholarship with readability, explaining specialized historical questions clearly, and has found a readership in history, social science, and cultural titles.
Written (7)
Rating 4.1★ Society and Gender Culture in the Tang Dynasty 姚平 · 2025 Tang Dynasty Society and Gender Culture is a collection of Professor Yao Ping's essays on the history of social and gender relations in the Tang dynas… Rating 4.0★ Pioneers: Interviews with Famous Historians 王希 / 卢汉超 / 姚平 Peking University Press · 2025 This book collects interviews with twenty of the most prominent contemporary historians in China and abroad, including Zi Zhongyun, Jin Chongji, Paul … Rating 3.8★ Teaching History in America: From Desk to Lectern 姚平 / 王希 Peking University Press · 2025 This book collects reminiscences by thirty-one Chinese scholars of the Chinese Historians in the United States, recounting their journeys from oversea… Rating 4.3★ Remembering Lives: Epitaphs in Chinese History 伊沛霞 / 姚平 / 张聪 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2021 Tens of thousands of epitaphs, or funeral biographies, have survived from the imperial era to the present. They were carved on stone and placed in tom… Rating 3.4★ Escape Route 石黑直美 / 姚平 / 张北 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2021 This is a short story collection made up of nine wildly imaginative tales: a rat catcher is drawn into a corrupt struggle for the throne by a mysterio… Rating 4.2★ The Life Course of Women in the Tang Dynasty 姚平 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 This is a revised edition of the work first published in 2004. The book aims to observe Tang dynasty women's lives from multiple angles, thereby enric… Rating 4.1★ Jiahe Lawyers Discuss Family Matters 姚平 China Legal Publishing House · 2018 This book is divided into two parts: the Settlement part and the Litigation part. The Settlement part mainly uses cases to help people troubled by fam…Publishers
Shanghai Classics Publishing HouseShanghai Translation Publishing HouseChina Legal Publishing HousePeking University Press