Contributors

LARA C. W. BLANCHARD is Luce Professor of East Asian Art and Lloyd Wright Professor in Conservative Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York. Her interdisciplinary research interests include Chinese arts and literature, particularly gendered images, women artists, women patrons, text-image relationships, and theories of representation. She has published articles about pictorial arts—painting, woodblock printmaking, photography, and video—from the Song dynasty (960–1279) through the contemporary era. She is the author of Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire: Gender and Interiority in Chinese Painting and Poetry (2018).MARAM EPSTEIN is a professor of late imperial Chinese literature at the University of Oregon. Her primary interests are xiaoshuo aesthetics, representations of gender, and histories of emotion. She is the author of Competing Discourses: Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction (2001) and Orthodox Passions: Narrating Filial Love during the High Qing (2019). She is currently working on a book about fiction authored by women during the Qing dynasty.GRACE S. FONG is professor of Chinese literature and Richard Charles & Esther Yewpick Lee Chair in Chinese Cultural Studies, McGill University. She was Guggenheim Fellow 2011–2012. Her research focuses on classical Chinese poetry and women's literature of the Ming and Qing periods. She is director of the Ming Qing Women's Writings digital archive and database project (https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/mingqing/) and editor in chief of the Women and Gender in China Studies series published by Brill. She is the author of Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China (eBook edition, 2016) and co-editor of The Inner Quarters and Beyond: Women Writers from Ming through Qing (2010) and Representing Lives in China: Forms of Biography in the Ming-Qing Period 1368–1911 (2018).GUO YINGDE 郭英德 is professor of Chinese literature at Hebei University and professor emeritus at Beijing Normal University. His research covers various genres, themes, and periods in premodern Chinese literature, with more than twenty published books and more than two hundred academic papers. As an expert of classical Chinese philology, he has authored or coauthored monumental studies on Chinese drama, such as Comprehensive Narratives of Chuanqi Dramas during the Ming and Qing 明清傳奇綜録 (1997) and An Anthology and Study of Prefaces and Postscripts in Ming Qing Drama 明清戲曲序跋纂箋 (2021). His representative monographs include A History of Chuanqi Dramas in the Ming and Qing 明清傳奇史 (1999, 2012), Essays on the Literary Genres in Ancient China 中國古代文體學論稿 (2005), and Seeking Chinese Interest: Historical and Cultural Reflections on Classical Chinese Literature 探尋中國趣味:中國古代文學的歷史文化思考 (2017).MARTIN W. HUANG is professor of Chinese at University of California, Irvine. His research interests include late imperial Chinese fiction, literati culture, and gender. Among his publications are Desire and Fictional Narrative in Late Imperial China (2001), Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China (2006), and Intimate Memory: Gender and Mourning in Late Imperial China (2018). He is the editor of Snakes' Legs: Sequels, Continuations, Rewritings, and Chinese Fiction (2004) and Male Friendship in Ming China (2007).XIAORONG LI is a professor of Chinese literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She holds a PhD and an MA from McGill University and an MA and BA from Peking University. She authored two monographs, The Poetics and Politics of Sensuality in China: The “Fragrant and Bedazzling” Movement (1600–1930) (2019) and Women's Poetry of Late Imperial China: Transforming the Inner Chambers (2012). She has also published in several journals such as Nan Nü: Men, Women, and Gender in China and Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies.JESSICA DVORAK MOYER is associate professor of Chinese at Smith College and is the author of Woman Rules Within: Domestic Space and Genre in Qing Vernacular Literature (2020). She received her PhD in Chinese literature from Yale University in 2015. Her current research focuses on the intersection of ethnicity, gender, and political ideology in classical scholarship of the early Qing. Other research and teaching interests include anthologies, conduct literature, spatial practice, and material culture of the Ming and Qing dynasties.JANET THEISS is associate professor of history at the University of Utah. She is the author of Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China (2004) and coauthor (with Barbara Molony and Hyaeweol Choi) of Gender in Modern East Asia (2016) and has published articles on various topics in Chinese legal, family, and gender history. She is currently working on a book titled Scandal and the Limits of Self-Invention in Eighteenth-Century China, which tells the story of an adultery and corruption scandal that engulfed two prominent families in the eighteenth century to explore the multidimensional implication of the state in elite family life and the intersection of politics, gendered expectations, affect, and morality in the creation and destruction of individual reputation and family fortune.GUOJUN WANG is associate professor of Asian studies at Vanderbilt University. He specializes in late imperial Chinese literature and culture, especially the intersections between writing, performance, materiality, and gender. He is the author of Staging Personhood: Costuming in Early Qing Drama (2020). His papers have appeared in Late Imperial China, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, CLEAR, T'oung Pao, and Nan Nü: Men, Women, and Gender in China among others. He is currently working on a project about the representation of dead bodies in the forensic literature of early modern China.YUEFAN WANG is a PhD candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include premodern Chinese literature and literary thoughts, urban culture, and gender in late imperial China. She has published articles on Chinese literary geography, intellectual history, and love and illness. Her interdisciplinary dissertation is about gender and garden writing from sixteenth- to nineteenth-century China. She received her master's degree in comparative literature and world literature from Fudan University and bachelor's degree in Chinese language and literature from Tongji University.ELLEN WIDMER is Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies and Professor of East Asian Studies. She is the author of three monographs: The Margins of Utopia: Shui-hu hou-chuan and the Literature of Ming Loyalism (1987), The Beauty and the Book: Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China (2006), and Fiction's Family: Zhan Xi, Zhan Kai, and the Business of Women in Late-Qing China (2016). In addition to gender and fiction, she studies the history of the book in China and missionary history.BINBIN YANG is an associate professor of Chinese literature at the University of Hong Kong, and the author of Heroines of the Qing: Exemplary Women Tell Their Stories (2016). Her research focuses on women and gender in late imperial China. She is also interested in engaging in broader dialogues on women and gender relations in comparative frameworks or in different cultural and historical contexts.

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