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Shen Weirong, born in 1962, is from Wuxi, Jiangsu. He holds a bachelor's and master's degrees in history from Nanjing University and a doctorate from the Department of Central Asian Languages ​​and Cultures of the University of Bonn in Germany. He is currently a Chang Jiang Scholar Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education, a professor and doctoral supervisor of the Chinese Department of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University. His research fields include Western languages ​​and history, especially comparative studies of Tibetan history, Tibetan Buddhism and Sino-Tibetan Buddhism. He has successively served as a co-researcher at the Department of Indian Sanskrit Studies at Harvard University, an acting professor at the Department of Central Asia at Humboldt University in Germany, a foreign co-researcher at the Department of Literature at Kyoto University in Japan, a visiting professor at the Institute of History and Linguistics at Academia Sinica in Taiwan, a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, Germany. He once served as the deputy dean of the School of Chinese Studies and the deputy dean of the Institute for Advanced Study of Religion at Renmin University of China. His representative works include "Philosophical Research on the History of Tibetan Buddhism", "Searching for Shangri-La", "Imagining Tibet: Monks, Living Buddhas, Lamas and Esoteric Buddhism from a Cross-Cultural Perspective", "Text and History: The Formation of Historical Narratives of Tibetan Buddhism and the Construction of Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Studies", "The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in the Western Regions and the Central Plains - Preliminary Study of "Mahayana Essentials", etc.

This manuscript is a compilation of a group of articles by the author on the theoretical research on Mongolian, Yuan and Qing history in recent years. It is a collection of essays by scholars of historical theory.