Liu Heping (Chinese: 刘和平; born 1953) is a Chinese screenwriter and novelist who is best known for his historical dramas.
[1] Liu was from Shaodong and born in Hengyang, Hunan Province, southern China in 1953.
[2] His father was a playwright, and his mother was an opera actor.
[2] His dramatisation of the final years of the Jiajing Emperor, Ming Dynasty in 1566, was released as a TV drama and a series of novels in 2007.
[3] In 2014, his drama about the Chinese Civil War, All Quiet in Peking, was also released in both TV and novel formats.