Meng Man (; born 28 January 1975) is a Chinese scholar and a professor at the College of History and Culture, Minzu University of China. She is best known for conducting lecture series about Chinese literature on the

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television programme ''

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''.

Biography

Meng was born in 1975 in

Pingquan Pingquan () is a county-level city of northeastern Hebei province, China, bordering Liaoning province to the east. It has a population of 470,000 residing in an area of . It is a centre of trade and business, and gold and silver are mined nearby. ...

Chengde Chengde, formerly known as Jehol and Rehe, is a prefecture-level city in Hebei province, situated about 225 km northeast of Beijing. It is best known as the site of the Mountain Resort, a vast imperial garden and palace formerly used by t ...

Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, an ...

province, to an ethnic

Manchu The Manchus (; ) are a Tungusic East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia. They are an officially recognized ethnic minority in China and the people from whom Manchuria derives its name. The Later Jin (1616–1636) and ...

family. Her parents graduated from

Tianjin Foreign Studies University Tianjin Foreign Studies University (TFSU; ), nickname as "天外", is one of the top eight foreign studies universities in China. As a renowned teaching and research institution, Tianjin Foreign Studies University specializes in foreign languag ...

. Her elder aunt was a university student in the 1950s and became the first headmistress in her hometown. She entered the Minzu University of China in September 1992, majoring in history, where she graduated in July 1999. Two months later, she was accepted to

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 ...

, where she completed her doctor's degree in history under the direction of Rong Xinjiang (). After graduation, she taught there. In November 2007, she regularly gave lectures on

Wu Zetian Wu Zetian (17 February 624 – 16 December 705), personal name Wu Zhao, was the ''de facto'' ruler of the Tang dynasty from 665 to 705, ruling first through others and then (from 690) in her own right. From 665 to 690, she was first empres ...

on the television programme ''

'' shown on

. Since then, she has conducted four lecture series–''Wu Zetian'', '' Princess Taiping'' (2008), ''The Song of Everlasting Sorrow'' (2009), ''The Wonderful Sui Dynasty'' (2010) and '' Emperor Xuanzong and Yang Guifei'' (2013). In January 2017, she became a judge at the CCTV program ''

Chinese Poetry Congress ''Chinese Poetry Congress'' () is an ongoing game show on China Central Television that tests competitors' memory and reciting of Chinese poetry, including classical and modern forms of '' shi'', '' ci'' and '' qu''. It is related to several other ...

''. On June 23, she was elected a delegate to the

19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China The 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (commonly referred to as ''Shíjiǔ Dà''; ) was held at the Great Hall of the People, Beijing, between 18 and 24 October 2017. 2,280 delegates represented the party's estimated 89 milli ...

Works

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References

External links

Meng Man on Sinaweibo
{{DEFAULTSORT:Meng, Man 1975 births People from Chengde Living people Peking University alumni Minzu University of China alumni Minzu University of China faculty Educators from Hebei Writers from Hebei All-China Women's Federation people