CONTRIBUTORS

FREDERICK P. BRANDAUER, Ph. D., Stanford University, teaches at the University of Washington. His research interests embrace Chinese literature and culture, and he is the author of a book on the seventeenth-century novelist Tung Yüeh.

DANIEL BRYANT, Ph. D., the University of British Columbia, teaches Chinese language and literature at the University of Victoria. His publications include scholarly articles, translations, and the book Lyric Poets of the Southern T’ang.

MARIE CHAN, Ph. D., the University of California at Berkeley, teaches Chinese language and comparative literature at the University of Arizona. Her special research interests relate to T’ang poetry, and she is the author of two books: Kao Shih and Cen Shen.

KANG-I SUN CHANG, Ph. D., Princeton University, teaches Chinese literature at Yale. Her scholarly publications include The Evolution of Chinese Tz’u Poetry: From Late T’ang to Northern Sung and Six Dynasties Poetry..

YIN-NAN CHANG, B. D., Nanking Theological Seminary, is a writer and translator now residing in Canada. His published writings include Poems by Wang Wei (with Lewis C. Walmsley) and translations in Sunflower Splendor.

CHANG-FANG CHEN, Ph. D., Indiana University, is a member of the Foreign Language and Literature faculty of National Taiwan University in Taiwan.

MADELINE CHU, Ph. D., the University of Arizona, teaches Chinese language and literature at Connecticut College. Her special research interest is classical Chinese literature.

JOHN C. COLEMAN, M. A. in Chinese language and literature; M. B. A., Indiana University, is a systems engineer, employed by Electronics Data Systems, with research interests in Chinese language and poetry.

MICHAEL S. DUKE, Ph. D., the University of California at Berkeley, teaches at the University of British Columbia. His publications include a monograph on the Sung poet Lu Yu and a book on contemporary Chinese literature.

EUGENE C. EOYANG, Ph. D., Indiana University, is a member of the Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Cultures faculty at Indiana. An editor, translator, and specialist in late T’ang popular literature, he has also edited and translated a volume of modern poetry by the poet Ai Qing.

BARRY L. GARTELL, M. A., the University of Arizona, is currently employed in the electronics field. His research interests are the poetry and literary criticism of the Six Dynasties era.

JAMES M. HARGETT, Ph. D., Indiana University, teaches Chinese language and literature at the University of Colorado. His primary research interest is the poetry and travel literature of the Sung dynasty.

COY L. HARMON, Ph. D., the University of Arizona, is Dean of Libraries and chairman of the Department of Library Science, Murray State University, Kentucky. He specializes in the classical fiction of the post-T’ang era.

HSIN-SHENG C. KAO, Ph. D., the University of Southern California, teaches at the University of La Verne. She is the author of Li Ju-chen, a nineteenth-century novelist and translator of the modern poetry of Chou Meng-tieh.

PAUL W. KROLL, Ph. D., the University of Michigan, is currently chairman of the Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures, the University of Colorado. His scholarly publications include a monograph on the T’ang poet Meng Hao-jan and a separate Concordance to the Poems of Meng Hao-jan.

JULIE LANDAU, A. B., Harvard University, is a professional writer. Her translations of classical Chinese poetry have appeared in various publications, ineluding Song Without Music: Chinese Tz’u Poetry, edited by Stephen C. Soong.

LI CHI, B. Litt., Oxford University, is Professor Emeritus of Chinese at the University of British Columbia. She has translated Wordsworth’s Prelude into Chinese, and Hsü Hsia-k’o’s travel diaries into English.

IRVING YUCHENG LO, Ph. D., the University of Wisconsin, teaches at Indiana University. His major publications include a monograph on the Sung lyric poet Hsin Ch’i-chi and Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry, which he coedited with Wu-chi Liu.

RONALD C. MIAO, Ph. D., the University of California at Berkeley, teaches Chinese language and culture at the University of Arizona. He is the author of a book on the Han dynasty poet Wang Ts’an, and he has written extensively on T’ang and pre-T’ang poetry and criticism.

WILLIAM H. NIENHAUSER, JR., Ph. D., Indiana University, teaches Chinese language and literature at the University of Wisconsin. His scholarly publications include P’i Jih-hsiu, Liu Tsung-yüan (as coauthor), and the Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature (as chief editor).

MICHAEL PATRICK O’CONNOR, Ph. D., the University of Michigan, is the author of several books, including Hebrew Verse Structure.

CHIA-LIN PAO, Ph. D., Indiana University, has taught Chinese history at National Taiwan University and the University of Arizona. Her current research interests include a history of women in China and the life and works of Ch’iu Chin.

J. D. SCHMIDT, Ph. D., the University of British Columbia, teaches Chinese language and literature at the same institution. He is the author of a book on the Sung poet Yang Wan-li and is currently working on two Ch’ing poets: Huang Tsun-hsien and Chin Ho.

WILLIAM SCHULTZ, Ph. D., the University of Washington, teaches Chinese literature and history at the University of Arizona. He has contributed to various publications and edited the China volumes for Twayne’s World Authors Series.

J. P. SEATON, Ph. D., Indiana University, teaches at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His publications include The Wine of Endless Life, The View From Cold Mountain (as coauthor); his translations from Chinese poetry have appeared in various journals and books, including Sunflower Splendor and Chinese Poetic Writings.

GLORIA HUNG-KUANG SHEN, M. A., SUNY at Binghamton, is presently working on her doctorate in Chinese language and literature at Indiana University. She has taught Chinese language at Middlebury College, Princeton University, and Indiana University.

JONATHAN D. SPENCE, Ph. D., Yale University, is George Burton Adams Professor of History at the same institution and presently the chairman of the history department there. He is the author of numerous scholarly works, his latest being The Gate of Heavenly Peace and The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci.

LYNN STRUVE, Ph. D., the University of Michigan, teaches Chinese history at Indiana University. A specialist in seventeenth-century intellectual history, she has contributed to a forthcoming volume in the Cambridge History of China and is author of The Southern Ming, recently published by Yale University Press.

CECILE CHU-CHIN SUN, Ph. D., Indiana University, teaches Chinese and comparative literature at the University of Pittsburgh. She has also taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tsinghua University, Taiwan, and the University of Iowa.

AN-YAN TANG, Ph. D., Indiana University, wrote her dissertation on the poetics of Tu Fu. Presently she resides in Bloomington where she engages in private business.

CHING-I TU, Ph. D., the University of Washington, teaches at Rutgers University where he is Chair and Professor of Chinese. He is the translator of Wang Kuo-wei’s Poetic Remarks in the Human World and frequently writes on Chinese literature and criticism.

JAN W. WALLS, Ph. D., Indiana University, is Vice President of the Canadian Pacific Cultural Foundation. He has collaborated with Yvonne L. Walls on several recent books, including West Lake: A Collection of Folktales and Classical Chinese Myths.

YVONNE L. WALLS, M. A., the University of Washington, teaches Chinese at the University of Victoria. She is coauthor (with Jan W. Walls) of several books on Chinese mythology and folklore.

JOHN E. WILLS, JR., Ph. D., Harvard University, teaches history at the University of Southern California. His publications include Pepper, Guns, and Parleys: The Dutch East India Company and China, 1662–1681, and From Ming to Ch’ing: Conquest, Region, and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century China, which he coedited with Jonathan D. Spence.

SHIRLEEN S. WONG, Ph. D., the University of Washington, teaches Chinese language and literature at the University of California at Los Angeles. A specialist in classical Chinese poetry, she is the author of Kung Tzu-chen.

TIMOTHY C. WONG, Ph. D., Stanford University, teaches Chinese language and literature at Ohio State University. A specialist in the fiction of Ch’ing era, his scholarly publications include a book on the Chinese novelist Wu Ching-tzu.

CATHERINE YI-YÜ CHO WOO, Ed., D., the University of San Francisco, teaches Chinese language and literature at San Diego State University. She is a painter, calligrapher, and translator and is coauthor (with the late Kai-yu Hsü) of the Magic of the Brush.

KENNETH KENICHIRO YASUDA, Ph. D., the University of Tokyo, is Professor Emeritus of Japanese at Indiana University. A specialist in haiku and the Noh drama, his major publications include A Pepper Pod and Land of the Reed Plain.

ANTHONY C. YU, Ph. D., the University of Chicago, teaches religion and comparative literature at the same institution. In addition to many articles and monographs, he has translated the classic novel Hsi-yu chi into English, published in four volumes under the title The Journey to the West.