C on t ri bu t or s 409Maija Bell Samei is an independent scholar who teaches part-time at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her Ph.D. in Chinese literature from
the University of Michigan and is the author of Gendered Persona and Poetic Voice:
The Abandoned Woman in Early Chinese Song Lyrics (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books,
2004).
Jui-lung Su is associate professor of Chinese literature at the National University of
Singapore. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1994 and
has taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the National University of
Singapore. His research is on Chinese fu and Six Dynasties literature. He is the edi-
tor of New Views of Han, Wei, and Six Dynasties Literature in the Twenty-first Century:
A Festschrift in Honor of Professor David R. Knechtges on His Sixtieth Birthday (Taipei:
Wenjin, 2003) and author of A Study of Bao Zhao’s Literature (Bao Zhao shiwen yan-
jiu) (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 2006).
Wendy Swartz is assistant professor of Chinese Literature at Columbia University. She
received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2003. Her
research interests are premodern Chinese poetry, especially Six Dynasties to Tang,
and traditional and modern literary theory and criticism. She has published on Tao
Qian (Tao Yuanming) and is currently completing her book Reclusion, Personality,
and Poetry: Tao Yuanming’s Reception in the Chinese Literary Tradition.
Xiaofei Tian is professor of Chinese literature in the Department of East Asian Lan-
guages and Civilizations at Harvard University. She is the author of Tao Yuanming
and Manuscript Culture: The Record of a Dusty Table (Seattle: University of Wash-
ington Press, 2005) and Beacon Fire and Shooting Star: The Literary Culture of the
Liang (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Asia Center Press, 2007). Her recent Chinese-
language publications include a book on the sixteenth-century novel The Plum in
the Golden Vase (2003), an annotated translation of Sappho’s poetry (2004), and a
book on the literature and culture of Moorish Spain (2006). She has also published
a number of English and Chinese articles and book reviews in the areas of early
medieval Chinese literature, late imperial Chinese fiction and drama, and modern
Chinese literature. She is currently working on an English-language book on visual-
ization and its changing cultural contexts in classical Chinese literature.
Paula Varsano is associate professor of Chinese literature at the University of Califor-
nia, Berkeley. She specializes in classical poetry and poetics of the Six Dynasties and
the Tang, with particular interest in literature and subjectivity, the evolution of spa-
tial representation in poetry, the history and poetics of traditional literary criticism,
and the theory and practice of translation. She is the author of Tracking the Ban-
ished Immortal: The Poetry of Li Bo and Its Critical Reception (Honolulu: University of
Hawai‘i Press, 2003) and is currently at work on a book tentatively titled Coming to
Our Senses: Locating the Subject in Traditional Chinese Literary Writing.
Fusheng Wu is associate professor in the Department of Languages and Literature at
the University of Utah. He is the author of The Poetics of Decadence: Chinese Poetry
of the Southern Dynasties and Late Tang Period (Albany: State University of New York
Press, 1988) and Written at Imperial Command: Panegyric Poetry in Early Medieval