Zhong Weimin is a professor and Ph.D. advisor at the Department of History, Tsinghua University, and an executive council member of the Chinese Economic History Society (CEHS). His research focuses on the socio-economic history of China, with particular emphasis on material culture, the history of modern Chinese trade, and the regional history of North China since the Ming and Qing dynasties.

His major monographs include Chaye yu yapian: shijiu shiji jingji quanqiuhua zhong de Zhongguo (Tea and Opium: China in Nineteenth-Century Economic Globalization) (Beijing: Shenghuo dushu xinzhi sanlian shudian, 2010), Jindai qianye de wangchao Qingchao juan (The Dynasty on the Eve of Modernity: The Qing Volume) (Beijing: Renmin jiaoyu chubanshe, 2021), and Song Shenzong (Emperor Shenzong of Song) (Changchun: Jilin wenshi chubanshe, 1997). He also serves as Executive Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Tsinghua University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), Editor-in-Chief of International Studies on Confucianism, and Vice Chairman of the Chinese Society of College Journals in Humanities and Social Sciences (CSCJHS).