New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry

About the Contributors

John Balcom (Ph.D. Washington University, St. Louis) is Associate

Professor in and Chinese Program Head of the Graduate School of

Translation and Interpretation at the Monterey Institute of

International Studies. His translations and cotranslations include an

abridged version of Li Qiao’s epic novel Wintry Night(2001, Columbia

University Press), Indigenous Writers of Taiwan (2005, Columbia

University Press) and Luo Fu’s Driftwood(2007, Zephyr).

John A. Crespi (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is Henry R. Luce

Assistant Professor of Chinese at Colgate University in Hamilton,

New York, and is currently researching voice and social context of

performed poetry in modern China.

Michael Day (Ph.D. Leiden University) is Assistant Professor of

Chinese Language and Studies at National University in San Diego. He

is the poetry contributor to the Digital Archive for Chinese Studies

<http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/dachs/>. His doctoral thesis on

avant-garde Chinese poetry is downloadable at <http://leiden.

dachs-archive.org/poetry/md.html>.

Yibing Huang (Ph.D. Beijing University and Ph.D. UCLA) is Associate

Professor of Chinese at Connecticut College. He has written (under

the penname Mai Mang) two poetry collections: Stone Turtle: Poems

1987–2000 (2005, Godavaya) and Approaching Blindness(2005,

Writers Publishing House, Beijing). He is also the author of

Contemporary Chinese Literature: From the Cultural Revolution to

the Future(2007, Palgrave Macmillan).

Nick Kaldis (Ph.D. The Ohio State University) is Associate Professor

of Chinese at Binghamton University and has published essays on

modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film and numerous

translations. He has completed a manuscript on Lu Xun’s Yecaoand is

cotranslating a collection of nature writing essays by Liu Kexiang.

Dian Li (Ph.D. University of Michigan) is Associate Professor of East

Asian Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson. His numerous

publications on modern and contemporary Chinese poetry include

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