Wang Xiangkun

Wang Xiangkun was born in 1963 in Xinye, Henan, and holds a graduate degree in law. He previously served in the military and has worked at the Party History Research Center of the CPC Central Committee since 2005; he is now deputy director of the Research Planning Department at the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee, focusing on CPC history during the democratic revolution. His writing centers on figures and major events in Party history. He is the author of works such as Understanding Liu Shaoqi, CPC Leaders in Crisis Management, and A Record of Mao Zedong's Complete Victory over Chiang Kai-shek, and has written biographies of revolutionary figures including Wang Ruofei, Deng Zhongxia, He Shuheng, Mao Zemin, Liu Hulan, Zhao Shiyan, Deng Enming, and Chen Tanqiu. Mostly classified as general biography and documentary literature, these works seek to reconstruct people's lives and historical scenes on the basis of solid sources, with plain narration that balances scholarship and readability. The library holds 17 of his works.