About the author
Cai Ping is an author about whom limited public information is available. Five of his works are held in the collection, spanning a fairly wide range of subjects, including the compilation of local historical documents, a chronological biography of a historical figure, criticism of ancient Chinese maritime literature, and contemporary fiction. In the field of local gazetteers, he has taken part in organizing old gazetteers of the western Guangdong prefectures and counties, with editions of the Kangxi-era Suixi and Xuwen county gazetteers to his credit, contributing to the preservation and dissemination of local historical sources from western Guangdong. In historical research, he compiled A Chronological Biography of Emperor Gao of Qi, Xiao Daocheng, indicating an interest in Southern Dynasties politics and personal lives. In literature, he has analyzed ancient Chinese maritime literary works and also wrote a youth-themed novel, The First Part of the Firmament: Let Youth Run Wild. His works are commonly classified under social culture, historical reading, literary appreciation, and war and military life, and his writing combines documentary compilation, scholarly commentary, and literary creation.
Written (5)
Rating 3.9★ Western Guangdong Prefecture and County Old Gazetteers Series · Suixi County Gazetteer of the Kangxi Era 宋国用 / 洪泮洙 / 蔡平 Jinan University Press · 2025 The Kangxi Suixi County Gazetteer was begun in the early part of the twenty-fourth year of the Kangxi reign and completed in the twenty-sixth year, ta… Rating 3.9★ Western Guangdong Prefecture and County Old Gazetteers Series: Xuwen County Gazetteer of the Twenty-Sixth Year of Kangxi 阎如珆 / 吴平 / 蔡平 / 孙长军 Jinan University Press · 2025 The Kangxi 26th Year Xu Wen County Gazetteer, compiled by Yan Ruyi and Wu Ping, is the earliest surviving old gazetteer of Xu Wen. The gazetteer is no… Rating 3.5★ A Chronological Biography of Xiao Daocheng, Emperor Gao of Qi 蔡平 Jinan University Press · 2023 Xiao Daocheng, founding emperor of the Southern Qi, holds an important place in the literary history of the Qi and Liang periods. This book presents t… Rating 3.5★ Review and Analysis of Ancient Chinese Maritime Literary Works 蔡平 / 马瑜理 / 闫勖 Jinan University Press · 2023 This book is the ancient Chinese volume of "An Appreciation of Chinese and Foreign Maritime Literature," edited under the auspices of the Maritime Sil… Rating 2.5★ The Vault of Heaven, Part One: Let Youth Run Wild 蔡平 Chongqing Publishing House · 2019 This is an extraordinary army, and these are extraordinary soldiers. From the day of its founding, they have been endowed with special meaning and a d…Publishers
Jinan University PressChongqing Publishing House