Contributors
ZACH BERGE-BECKER is a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University researching identity construction, status maintenance, social distinction, and snobbery in seventh- to fourteenth-century China. His current focus is the creation and performance of “gentlemanly” (shi) identities through distinct modes of engagement in arts and activities shared by various “non-gentlemanly” participants.
JIAYI CHEN is assistant professor of East Asian languages and cultures at Washington University in St. Louis. She specializes in early modern Chinese literature, with a focus on its intersections with games, media, and the history of reading.
DOUGLAS EYMAN is director of writing and rhetoric at George Mason University. He is senior editor and publisher of Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, author of Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice (2015), and coeditor (with Andréa Davis) of Play/Write: Games, Writing, Digital Rhetoric (2016).
CÉSAR GUARDE-PAZ is associate professor at Sun Yat-sen University (Zhuhai, China). His research focuses on Dunhuang and Turfan manuscripts from the Pelliot, Stein, and bbaw collections, and is the author of Modern Chinese Literature, Lin Shu and the Reformist Movement: Between Classical and Vernacular Language (2017).
JIE GUO is associate professor of comparative literature at the University of South Carolina. Her research interests include the history of sexuality, gender theory, visual culture, literary theory, and comparative literature. She has published work in a variety of venues, including Modern Language Notes, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, and Hanxue yanjiu.
LI GUO is professor of Chinese at Utah State University. She is the author of Women’s Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth-Century China (2015) and Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women’s Tanci Fiction (2021). With Patricia Sieber and Peter Kornicki, she coedited Ecologies of Translation in East and South East Asia, 1600–1900 (2022).
KEREN HE is assistant professor of Chinese studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her current book manuscript, Anti-Aging in Contemporary Chinese Worlds, theorizes old age as a politics of living that redefines notions of well-being, agency, and development underlying a “successful” Chinese life course.
RANIA HUNTINGTON is professor of Chinese literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research focuses on Ming and Qing narratives, particularly themes of the supernatural, memory, and literary geography.
JIAQI LI is lecturer of literary theory and researcher at the Center for Contemporary Thought and Culture, Wuhan University. He is interested in examining Chinese texts, knowledge, and discourses from global and local perspectives. His research covers translation history, Sino-Western interactions, and media discourse in contemporary China.
YICHEN RAO is assistant professor of anthropology at Utrecht University, Netherlands. He recently completed a postdoc fellowship at MIT Game Lab. His research focuses on how digital capital has affected Chinese people’s lives and reshaped Chinese society in recent decades. His work has appeared in Economy and Society, Chinese Journal of Communication, and History of Psychology.
FLORIAN SCHNEIDER is chair professor of modern China at Leiden University. He is managing editor of Asiascape: Digital Asia, director of the Leiden Asia Centre, and author of Staging China: The Politics of Mass Spectacle (2020), China’s Digital Nationalism (2019), and Visual Political Communication in Popular Chinese Television Series (2012).
PATRICIA SIEBER is professor of Chinese literature at The Ohio State University. She is the author of Theaters of Desire (2003), guest editor of “The Protean World of Sanqu Songs” (2021), and coeditor of How to Read Chinese Drama (2022) and How to Read Chinese Drama in Chinese (2023).
HONGMEI SUN is associate professor of Chinese at George Mason University. Her research explores Chinese traditions in cross-cultural contexts. She is the author of Transforming Monkey: Adaptation and Representation of a Chinese Epic (2018).