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Gender, Writing, and Agency in Late Imperial China (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i
Press, 2008); coeditor of Beyond Tradition and Modernity: Gender, Genre, and Cos-
mopolitanism in Late Qing China (Leiden: Brill, 2004); and project editor of Ming–
Qing Women’s Writings: A Joint Digitization Project Between McGill University
and Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University (http://digital.library.mcgill
.ca/mingqing/).
David R. Knechtges is professor of Chinese literature at the University of Washington.
He is the author of Two Studies on the Han Fu (Seattle: University of Washington
Press, 1968), The Han Rhapsody: A Study of the Fu of Yang Hsiung (53 B.c.–a.d. 18)
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976), The Han shu Biography of Yang
Xiong (53 B.c.–a.d. 18) (Tempe: Arizona State University, 1982), and Court Culture
and Literature in Early China (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002). He is the translator of Xiao
Tong, Wenxuan, or Selections of Refined Literature, vol. 1, Rhapsodies on Metropolises
and Capitals (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1982), vol. 2, Rhapsodies on
Sacrifices, Hunting, Travel, Sightseeing, Palaces and Halls, Rivers and Seas (Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987), and vol. 3, Rhapsodies on Natural Phenomena,
Birds and Animals, Aspirations and Feelings, Sorrowful Laments, Literature, Music, and
Passions (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996); editor and cotranslator
of Gong Kechang, Studies on the Han Fu (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental
Society, 1997); and coeditor (with Paul W. Kroll) of Studies in Early Medieval Chinese
Literature and Cultural History: In Honor of Richard B. Mather and Donald Holzman
(Provo, Utah: T’ang Studies Society, 2003) and (with Eugene Vance) of Rhetoric and
the Discourses of Power in Court Culture: China, Europe, and Japan (Seattle: University
of Washington Press, 2005).
Xinda Lian received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and is currently asso-
ciate professor of Chinese at Denison University. He is the author of The Wild and
Arrogant: Expression of Self in Xin Qiji’s Song Lyrics (New York: Lang, 1999) and a
variety of articles on Chinese literature.
Shuen-fu Lin is professor of Chinese literature at the University of Michigan. He is
the author of The Transformation of the Chinese Lyrical Tradition: Chiang K’uei and
Southern Sung Tz’u Poetry (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1978) and
The Pursuit of Utopias (in Chinese) (Taichung: Tunghai University Press, 2003). He
is also coeditor (with Stephen Owen) of The Vitality of the Lyric Voice: Shih Poetry
from the Late Han to the T’ang (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986)
and cotranslator (with Larry J. Schulz) of Tung Yüeh, The Tower of Myriad Mirrors: A
Supplement to Journey to the West, 2nd ed. (Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies,
University of Michigan, 2000).
William H. Nienhauser Jr. is Halls-Bascom Professor for Classical Chinese Literature
at the University of Wisconsin. In 1979, he helped found Chinese Literature: Essays,
Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) and is still its editor. Among his numerous books and
articles are The Grand Scribe’s Records, vols. 1, 2, 5, 7 (Bloomington: Indiana Uni-
versity Press, 1994, 2002, 2006) and The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese
Literature, 2 vols. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986, 1998).