Background
Wang was born in 1945 in Huoshan County, Anhui, but his ancestral home was in Xintai, Shandong.
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Wang was born in 1945 in Huoshan County, Anhui, but his ancestral home was in Xintai, Shandong.
He is best known for conducting lecture series about Chinese history on the CCTV-10 television programme Lecture Room. He moved to Kaifeng, Henan in 1953 and has been living there since. He is a professor in the School of Arts, Henan University.
He is also a consultant in the China Shi Ji Research Association and the vice chairman of the Wen Xuan Society. In 2006, Wang received an invitation to be a lecturer on the television programme Lecture Room shown on CCTV-10. Since then, he has conducted five lecture series—Xiang Yu, Empress Lü, Emperor Wu of Han, Qin Shi Huang, and Song of the Great Wind—on the history of the Qin and Han dynasties.
He was a member of the 10th Henan Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Provincial Committee. He has received good reviews and awards for his lectures and works.