Contributors
- Contributors
HSIAO-WEN CHENG is assistant professor of Chinese religion and history at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a cultural and intellectual historian interested in issues related to gender, sexuality, medicine, and religion in Middle Period China. She is currently completing a book manuscript on female sexuality in Chinese history. The book examines the emerging interest in women’s heterosexual inactivity in Song medicine and the new narratives about celibate women in popular anecdotes and hagiographies. Her next project will investigate the shifting categorization of sexual anomalies in premodern China and the notion of chang in both its synchronic (common) and diachronic (constant) senses.
RONALD EGAN is professor of sinology at Stanford University and department chair of East Asian Languages and Cultures. His research is on Song Dynasty literary culture, aesthetics, biji and supernatural tales, and the interplay of poetry and image in later Chinese painting. He is the author of The Problem of Beauty: Aesthetic Thought and Pursuits in Northern Song China (2006) and The Burden of Female Talent: The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China (2013).
I LO-FEN is associate professor (with tenure) at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and former head of the Chinese Division (2014–16). She received her PhD. from National Taiwan University. She won several awards, including the Academia Sinica Research Award for junior research investigators (2004) and the Wu Doa-You Foundation Award (2004). Her research interests include Chinese literature, Chinese art history, the interaction of East Asian cultures, Su Shi studies, and Singapore studies. She proposed the term text and image studies (文圖學) to name a field that focuses on the relations, comparison, and intertextuality of text and image. She is also a column writer for Lianhe Zaobao (Singapore). She has published eight academic books and six creative literary books. Her recent publications include Gorgeous Nanyang: Arts, Advertisements, Crossover Singapore (南洋風華:藝文，廣告，跨界新加坡, 2016), which was funded by a Presentation and Participation Grant of the Singapore National Art Council and was selected one of the best books of 2016 by Lainhe Zaobao; East Asia Observation (感觀東亞, 2014), for which she received the Excellent Book Award of 2015, National Museum of Taiwan Literature; Of Cloud Shadows and Celestial Light: Poems and Paintings of the Landscape of Xiao Xiang (雲影天光:瀟湘山水之畫意與詩情, 2013); and Intertextuality and Citationality in Chinese Literature and Art (遊目騁懷:文學與美術的互文與再生, 2011), which was selected one of the best ten books of literature and image studies in the world by Nanjing University. [End Page 439]
JASON PROTASS is assistant professor of religious studies at Brown University. He is a scholar of Song Dynasty Buddhism, with interests in monastic literature, poetry, digital or spatial analyses, and Sino-Japanese exchange. Protass is completing a book manuscript on monastic literary cultures of the Song Dynasty. His next project will build on his recent publication, “Towards a Spatial History of Chan.”
ANNA M. SHIELDS is professor of East Asian studies at Princeton University. She specializes in classical Chinese literature of the Tang, Five Dynasties, and Northern Song eras. Her research focuses on literary history and the emergence of new literary genres and styles in late medieval China, the sociology of literature, and the role of emotions in classical literature. Her first book, Crafting a Collection: The Cultural Contexts and Poetic Practice of the Collection from among the Flowers (Huajian ji) (2006), examined the emergence of the song lyric in a path-breaking anthology. Her recent book, One Who Knows Me: Friendship and Literary Culture in Mid-Tang China (2015; winner of the honorable mention for the AAS Levenson Prize), explores the literary performance of friendship in ninth-century China through a wide range of genres, including letters, prefaces, exchange poetry, and funerary texts. Other recent and forthcoming publications investigate emotions in medieval letters, the compilation of anthologies of Tang literature in the Northern Song, and the cultural influence of Tang Dynasty anecdote collections. She has served as president of the T’ang Studies Society since 2011.
XIAO RAO is a PhD candidate in premodern Chinese literature at Stanford University. He received his MA from the University of Colorado Boulder. His research interests include literary history, religion, and literati culture in medieval China. He is currently writing his dissertation, “The Poetics of...
