New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry

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The Chinese Poetry of Bei Dao, 1978–2000: Resistance and Exile

(2006, Edwin Mellen).

Andrea Lingenfelter (Ph.D. University of Washington) is an independ-

ent scholar. In addition to her Chinese poetry scholarship, she has

translated Chinese poetry (Chicago Review, Frontier Taiwan,and Full

Tilt) and fiction, such as Farewell My Concubine(1994, Harper

Perennial) and Candy(2003, Bay Back).

Christopher Lupke (Ph.D. Cornell University) is Associate Professor of

Chinese at Washington State University in Pullman and has edited a

book on the Chinese notion of Ming(fate, command, life’s allotment)

(2005, Hawai‘i). He has translated Ye Shitao’s A History of Taiwan

Literature(UCSB Center for Taiwanese Studies) and is finishing a book

on filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien (University of Illinois Press).

Paul Manfredi (Ph.D. Indiana University) is Associate Professor of

Chinese at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, and

has been the recipient of grants from the National Endowment of

Humanities and Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. His articles have

appeared in Modern Chinese Literature and Cultureand the Journal

of Modern Literature in Chinese. His current work is on contemporary

Chinese poetry and visual art.

Steven L. Riep (Ph.D. UCLA) is Assistant Professor of Chinese at

Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where he teaches modern

and contemporary literature, film, and culture. He is currently work-

ing on religion and woman’s emancipation in the work of Xu Dishan,

environmental themes in the essays of Yang Mu, and disability in

transnational Chinese cinema.

Afaa Michael Weaver (M.F.A. Brown University) is the Alumnae

Professor of English at Simmons College in Boston and founder and

Director of the Zora Neale Hurston Literary Center. His tenth collec-

tion of poetry, The Plum Flower Dance/poems 1985 to 2005 is

forthcoming (University of Pittsburgh Press). He has convened an

international symposium on contemporary Chinese poetry; this

volume represents the scholarly fruits of that symposium.

Michelle Yeh (Ph.D. University of Southern California) is Professor of

Chinese at the University of California, Davis. Her prolific scholarship

on modern Chinese poetry from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong,

and the Chinese Diaspora has met with international acclaim. Most

recently, she has coedited the anthology Sailing to Formosa: A Poetic

Companion to Taiwan(2006, University of Washington Press).

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