About the author
Li Jing is a contemporary Chinese author of documentary literature and biography, about whom limited public information is available; details such as his birthplace, dates of birth and death, and educational background are not clearly recorded. Judging from the five works held in the collection, he focuses mainly on revolutionary history and military themes. His representative works include The Great Migration, The Scholar-General Xiao Hua, Spring Snow over the Kunlun Mountains, and Serfs' Halberds, Heroes' Blood: A Documentary of the Qingjian and Weihua Uprisings, as well as Leaving the Pass. These works concentrate on major modern historical events and figures, spanning both biography and war and military writing. His approach emphasizes the organization of historical sources and on-site reconstruction, presenting individual fates and collective action within historical processes through a documentary style. The Scholar-General Xiao Hua reflects his attention to military and political figures, while the documentary on the Qingjian and Weihua uprisings shows his care for local gazetteers and regional revolutionary history. Overall, Li Jing's writing takes historical fact as its backbone and narrative as its flesh, maintaining a plain and restrained style between documentary and biography and offering readable texts for understanding the history concerned.
Written (5)
Rating 3.8★ The Great Migration 李镜 People's Liberation Army Publishing House (PLA Publishing House) · 2026 In the 1930s, Chiang Kai-shek's zero-tolerance policy forced the Red Army into a long march. Where should they go? Within the Chinese Communist Party … Rating 3.5★ Xiao Hua: The Scholar-General 李镜 PLA Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 In June 1930, Mao Zedong led fourteen-year-old Xiao Hua into the Red Army. From a "red cub" of Xingguo to political commissar of the "Young Communists… Rating 3.3★ Spring Snow in Kunlun 李镜 People's Liberation Army Publishing House (PLA Publishing House) · 2026 Xinjiang is inseparable from its soldiers. Traveling across Xinjiang's 1.6 million square kilometers, the author captures the figures of Chinese soldi… Rating 3.0★ Serfs' Halberds, Heroes' Blood: A Documentary Account of the Qingjian and Weihua Uprisings 李镜 PLA Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 In October 1927, Tang Shu and Xie Zichang launched the Qingjian Uprising in northern Shaanxi—the Chinese Communist Party's first armed declaration aga… Rating 3.0★ Leaving the Pass 李镜 PLA Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 In the spring of 1937, the West Route Red Army came under “encirclement and suppression” by Ma Bufang’s forces and others; more than 2,000 captured Re…Publishers
People's Liberation Army Publishing House (PLA Publishing House)PLA Literature and Art Publishing House