Zhao Dongmei

Zhao Dongmei, born in 1971, is a Chinese historian and currently a professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of History at Peking University, as well as a council member of the Chinese Song History Research Association. She entered the Department of History at Peking University in 1988 and earned her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees there, staying on to teach in 1998. Her research focuses on military, political, and social life from the late Tang to the Northern Song, with particular attention to the Song military selection official system and bureaucratic ecology, as reflected in works such as Between Civil and Military: A Study of Northern Song Military Selection Officials. Beyond academic research, she also writes and speaks on history for general audiences, having lectured on Kou Zhun and Sima Guang on CCTV's Lecture Room. The library holds three of her works, spanning historical reading and photography, including China Turning Inward: Cultural Turn in the Song Dynasty and Poetic Words and Floral Imagery.