Xue Zongzheng (; born 1935) is a Chinese

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

, a director of

Ancient History Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history to as far as late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the Sumerian cuneiform script. Ancient history cove ...

at the Institute of History in Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences, and a professor of History at

Xinjiang Normal University Xinjiang Normal University (XJNU) ( ug, شىنجاڭ پىداگوگېكا ئۇنىۋېرسىتېتى; zh, s=新疆师范大学, p=Xīnjiāng Shīfàn Dàxué) is a public university in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Rep ...

. Born in

Jinan Jinan (), Postal Map Romanization, alternately romanization of Chinese, romanized as Tsinan, is the Capital (political), capital of Shandong province in East China, Eastern China. With a population of 9.2 million, it is the second-largest city i ...

Shandong Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...

, he graduated with a history degree from

Peking University Peking University (PKU; ) is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charter ...

in 1958, specializing in frontier policies of

ancient China The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as early as 1250 BC, from the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC), during the reign of king Wu Ding. Ancient historical texts such as the '' Book of Documents'' (early chapte ...

and the history of

Central Asia Central Asia, also known as Middle Asia, is a subregion, region of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. It includes t ...

. He published several books in Chinese.

Publications

* ''A History of Turks''. Beijing: Chinese Social Sciences Press. 1992. (“突厥史" 中国社会科学出版社 1992年) * ''A Study of Western Boundary's Frontier Poetry in the Past Dynasties''. Lanzhou: Dunhuang Literature and Art Press. 1993. ("历代西陲边塞诗研究" 敦煌文艺出版社 1993年) * ''Anxi and Beiting Protectorates''. Harbin: Heilongjiang Education Press. 1995. ("安西与北庭" 黑龙江教育出版社 1995年) * ''Rise and Decline of Tubo Kingdom''. Beijing: Nationalities Press. 1997. ("吐蕃王国的兴衰" 民族出版社 1997年) * ''The Pronunciation of the Han and Jin Dynasties and the Toponym of the Ancient Western Region''. Journal of Xinjiang University. 2000.1. ("汉晋古音与古西域地名" 新疆大学学报 2000年01期) * ''Xinjiang's Historical Events Listed in Divani Lugatit Turk''. Journal of Xinjiang University. 2001.1 ("《突厥语词典》中的新疆史事" 新疆大学学报 2001年01期) * ''A Study on Multilateral Relations Among the Tibetan, Uighur and Karluk — On the Contend in the Western Regions After An and Shi's Rebellions of the Tang Dynasty''. 2001.3 ("吐蕃、回鹘、葛逻禄的多边关系考述 — 关于唐安史乱后的西域角逐" 西域研究 2001年03期) * ''A History of On Oq Khans in the Late Western Turks''. Journal of Xinjiang Normal University. 2001.4. ("后西突厥两厢可汗始末" 新疆师范大学学报 2001年04期) * ''The Royal Gar and the Tibetan-Subjected Western Turkic Regimes — With the Discussion About the Contend Between Tang Dynasty and the Tibetan in the Western Region''. China's Borderland History and Geography Studies. 2002.4. ("噶尔家族与附蕃西突厥诸政权 — 兼论唐与吐蕃间的西域角逐" 中国边疆史地研究 2002年04期) *''From Shule to Jiashizhili''. Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences. 2005.2. ("从疏勒到伽师祗离" 新疆社会科学 2005年02期)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Xue, Zongzheng 1935 births Living people People's Republic of China historians Writers from Jinan Peking University alumni Historians from Shandong Educators from Shandong Academic staff of Xinjiang Normal University