Basic Information

Zhong Sheng, male, was born in 1978 in Zigong, Sichuan Province. In 1997, he entered School of History of Wuhan University to start his undergraduate study. Then He studied at the China 3-9th Century Research Institute of Wuhan University to complete his master’s and doctoral degree, and majored in the history of Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties. He obtained his Ph.D. in history and entered the postdoctoral station of law in Wuhan University in 2012. He has been teaching in Wuhan University School of Law since his postdoctoral work was completed at the end of 2014. He is currently an associate professor and master’s supervisor, mainly engaged in the teaching and scientific research of Chinese legal history.

His main research areas include Chinese legal history, the history of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties，and the history of political systems. He was a major member engaged in collating and textual research work of the Book of Wei, which is the part of new revision of the Twenty-Four Histories published by Zhonghua Book Company. He also served as an author of the third edition of Encyclopedia of China, responsible for the writing of entries in the Three Kingdoms, Two Jins and Southern and Northern Dynasties branch of Chinese history subject.

Education Background

1997-2001, Chinese History Major, School of History of Wuhan University, bachelor’s degree in history

2001-2004, History of Wei, Jin, Southern and Southern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties Major, School of History of Wuhan University, master’s degree in history

2008-2012, History of Wei, Jin, Southern and Southern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties Major, School of History of Wuhan University, doctoral degree in history

Research Areas

Chinese legal history, the history of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the history of political systems

Concurrent Academic Posts

The deputy secretary-general of the Legal Culture Research Association of Hubei Law Society

Representative Papers

Analysis of “Zuo Mu Ben Zhou” in the Western Wei and Northern Zhou Dynasties, Journal of the 3-9th Century Chinese History, Volume 25, 2009（1）.

Analysis of the Battle for Jiaozhou between Wu and Jin in the Late Three Kingdoms, Journal of the 3-9th Century Chinese History, Volume 26, 2010（1）.

Analysis of the Provincial Military Government System in the Northern Wei Dynasty，Journal of the 3-9th Century Chinese History, Volume 28, 2012（1）.

Analysis of the official document Jiao in the Han Dynasty, Law Review, 2014（3）.

The Evolution and Reform of the Provincial Subordinate Official System in the Southern Dynasties: Centering on the Provincial Subordinate Official System in the Liang Dynasty，Journal of the 3-9th Century Chinese History，Volume32，2015（2）.

Evolvement of Official Ranking from Depending on the Military Order to Depending on the Province’s Grade: Study on the Reform of the Provincial Military Government System in the Later Period of Northern Dynasties, Journal of Historical Science, 2018（5）.

The Serialization Process of Provincial Subordinate Officials in the Northern Dynasties: Centering on the Heqing Order of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Jiangxi Social Sciences, 2018（6）.

Sizhi of Tingwei in the Northern Wei and the Construction of Two-way Supervision Mechanism between Judiciary and Supervision, Inner Mongolia Social Sciences, 2019（2）.

The Construction of Merit Concept in the Han Dynasty and its Development in the Judicial Field, Journal of Central China Normal University（Humanities and Social Sciences）,2020（1）.

Analysis of “King” Discourse in Traditional Law, Law Review, 2021（3）.

Published Works

Research on the Local Administrative System of the Northern Dynasties: Centering on Zhou, Wuhan University Press, 2019.

the New Revision of the Book of Wei（the second reviser），Zhonghua Book Company, 2017.

Collection of Chinese Legal History Cases（associate editor），Wuhan University Press, 2016.

Traditional Chinese Supervision Legal System and Judicial Civilization（the second author）,Wuhan University Press, 2019.

Research Projects

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation’s 54th Batch of Funding Projects “Research on the Local Administrative System of Northern Dynasties: Centering on the System Origin of the Sui Dynasty ” in 2013（2013M542046）

The National Social Science Foundation Post-Funded Project “Research on the Local Administrative System of the Northern Dynasties” in 2017(17FZS012)