About the author

Shi Jinsheng is an author about whom limited public information is available. Three works are known to be in circulation: Murphy's Law, A Brief History of Wuxia Fiction, and The Psychology of Dinner Parties: Why Important Matters Are Settled at the Table, spanning social science and cultural topics. Judging from these titles, his writing often starts from everyday experience and popular psychology, translating abstract rules, historical threads, and the subtleties of social interaction into accessible language. Murphy's Law points to a summarizing and reflective look at everyday phenomena, A Brief History of Wuxia Fiction shows an interest in tracing the history of genre literature, and The Psychology of Dinner Parties focuses on the dinner table as a common social setting, examining the human and psychological mechanisms at play there. Overall, his books are aimed at general readers, written in plain language, close to daily life, and colored by knowledge popularization and the interpretation of common phenomena.

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