Three Kingdoms and Chinese Culture

Contributors

179 Contributors ‫ﱠ‬ Kimberly Besio, associate professor of East Asian Studies (Chinese), Colby College , is a graduate of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and received her MA and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. Her research interests center on traditional Chinese fiction and drama, and gender construction in premodern China. She has published articles related to these topics in Ming Studies, CHINOPERL , Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies, and Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. Dominic Cheung, alias Chang Ts’o, is professor and chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. His English publications include Feng Chih: A Critical Study (Boston: Twayne Publishers , 1979), The Isle Full of Noises: Modern Chinese Poetry from Taiwan (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987), Exiles and Native Sons: Modern Short Stories from Taiwan, coedited with Michelle Yeh (Taipei: National Institute for Compilation and Translation, 1992), and Drifting, a volume of selected poems, (Los Angeles : Green Integer, 2000). A well-known Chinese poet, he has also published 14 volumes of modern poetry in Chinese. George A. Hayden received his BA degree from Pomona College, and his MA and PhD in Chinese language and literature from Stanford University. His publications include Crime and Punishment in Medieval Chinese Drama: Three Judge Pao Plays and articles on Shui hu zhuan and the rhymes and pronunciation of Ming drama. He has taught Chinese language and literature and EastAsian culture at Pomona College and the University of Kansas, and at the University of Southern California since 1973. Junhao Hong is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He received his PhD in Radio, Film, and Television from the University of Texas, Austin. His research interests include international and intercultural communication, media and society, and new communication technology. Jinhee Kim teaches Korean and comparative literature at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She received her PhD in comparative literature from Indiana University. Her principal research interests, which initially focused on modern Korean literature and literary theories culminated in her PhD dissertation, “Disembodying the Other: Studies of East-West Relations and Modern Korean Drama.” The range of her academic interests has extended to Korean American literature and Korean cinema. She has published numerous articles in each field. She is the author of Korean Drama under Japanese Occupation: Plays by Ch’i-jin Yu and Man-sik Ch’ae (2004) and Plays of Colonial Korea: Se-Dôk Ham (forthcoming in 2005). She is currently working on a manuscript entitled Voice from Afar: Critical Essays of Korean American Literature. A community activist, she is serving as the executive director of the Los Angeles Korean International Film Festival (www. lakiff.com), which she founded in 2003. Catherine Pagani received her PhD in art history from the University of Toronto, and teaches art history at the University of Alabama. Specializing in East Asian art history, Professor Pagani has published on subjects that include opium paraphernalia , Japanese woodblock prints, and rural Chinese textiles. Her Eastern Magnificence and European Ingenuity: Clocks of Late Imperial China was published by the University of Michigan Press. Moss Roberts is professor of Chinese at New York University. He is the translator of the classical novel Three Kingdoms (Sanguo yanyi), copublished by University of California Press and China’s Foreign Languages Press. His translation of Three Kingdoms in fact inspired the idea of an international colloquium on Three Kingdoms culture, held in Sichuan. He is also the editor and translator of Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies (New York: Parthenon, 1979) and translator of Dao De Jing: The Book of the Way (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001) Bojun Shen is a graduate of the Department of Foreign Languages, Sichuan University . He joined the Research Institute of Literature of Sichuan Social Sciences Institute after finishing first in the Institute’s competitive recruiting examination. He is now director of the Research Institute of Literature. Shen is also secretary general and deputy director of the standing committee of the Sanguo yanyi (Three Kingdoms) Association of China, and director of the Three Kingdoms Cultural Studies Institute of Sichuan. He has published numerous book length studies on the novel Sanguo yanyi, and is recognized as a leading authority on the study of Sanguo yanyi. 180 Contributors Contributors 181 Hoyt Cleveland Tillman received his PhD from Harvard University and is Professor...