Hong Zhenkuai (October 28, 1974-) is a history scholar and columnist who writes for several media outlets, including *The Beijing News*, *Southern Metropolis Daily*, and *Caijing.com*. He was the executive editor of reformist magazine Yanhuang Chunqiu (China Through the Ages), but resigned in 2014 due to dissatisfaction with the authorities’ arbitrary change of the publication’s supervisory unit. His main field of research is economic history, with a special focus on the relationship between finance, taxation and historical/social development. On April 11, 2010, *Southern Metropolis Daily*’s history review section published Hong Zhenkuai's article "L*ove of the country is not the same as love of the king*," which was later taken offline from the newspaper’s website, and the editor of the section was suspended from their position. In 2013, Hong published articles questioning some elements of the story of "Five Warriors of Mount Langyashan," who allegedly jumped off a cliff while fighting the Japanese during World War II rather than surrender. He was then sued by the descendants of the survivors of the five soldiers for reputation damage in 2015, and Hong lost the lawsuit. Hong later also filed reputation damage lawsuits against individuals and organizations that questioned and verbally abused him, and he lost all the cases. In one of the judgments, the court found that the motive of the abusers was to safeguard the image of the martyrs, which was in line with mainstream social values.
