【About the Editors】
Kuo-ch'ing Tu, born in Taichung, Taiwan. His research interests include Chinese literature, Chinese poetics and literary theories, comparative literature East and West, and world literatures
of Chinese (Shi-Hua wenxue). He is the author of numerous books of poetry in Chinese, as well as translator of English, Japanese, and French works into Chinese.
Terence Russell is an Associate Professor in the Asian Studies Center at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His early research dealt with classical Chinese literature and
religion but for the past few years his interest has turned to contemporary literature in Chinese, especially the literature of Taiwan's indigenous people. Dr. Russell has a strong interest in
translation and translation theory.
Shu-ning Sciban is a professor of Chinese and teaches Chinese language and literature at the University of Calgary. Her research interests include modern and contemporary Chinese and
Taiwanese fiction, writing by Chinese women, Chinese diaspora literature, narratology, rhetoric, stylistics, and Chinese language. She co-edited with Fred Edwards Dragonflies: Fiction by
Chinese Women in the Twentieth Century (Cornell East Asia Program, 2003) and Endless War: Fiction and Essays by Wang Wen-hsing (Cornell East Asia Program, 2011), with Lai-hsin Kang and San-hui
Hong on Mandu Wang Wen-hsing [Slow reading Wang Wen-hsing] (7 volumes) (National Taiwan UP, 2013), and co-edited with Ihor Pidhainy Reading Wang Wenxing: Critical Essays (Cornell East Asia
Program, 2015).
【About the Translators】
John Balcom teaches translation at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Recent translations include Stone Cell by Lo Fu (Zephyr) and Trees without Wind by Li Rui (Columbia
University Press).
Howard Goldblatt has been translating Taiwanese literature for more than forty years. His work includes the translation of Pai Hsien-yung’s novel Niezi [Crystal Boys].
Yingtsih Hwang is an independent scholar and translator based in Monterey.
Linshan Jiang is a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her MA in the Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University, China. Her research interests are modern and contemporary Chinese literature, interdisciplinary studies of memory and translation, and literary
criticism. Her MA thesis is entitled“Intertextual Approach to Translating Anthroponomastic Allusions in Taipei People.”
Sylvia Li-chun Lin, a native of Tainan, Taiwan, was Associate Professor of Chinese at the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Notre Dame, where she taught
modern and contemporary Chinese literature, film, and culture.
Her book, Representing Atrocity in Taiwan: The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film was published by Columbia University Press. In 2013, she resigned from Notre Dame to be a
full time translator and writer. She has translated short stories and co-translated full-length novels from Taiwan and China, including Li Ang’s The Lost Garden (Columbia UP, 2015).
Christopher Lupke is Professor of Modern Chinese Cultural Studies and Chair of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta. His recent book The Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien is a
comprehensive treatment of this Taiwanese auteur’s complete oeuvre. In addition to writing on cinema and literature, Lupke is a long-time translator. His works have appeared in this journal, as
well as New England Review, Michigan Quarterly, Epiphany, Free Verse, Five Points, Eleven Eleven, and several other literary journals.
Steven Riep is Associate Professor of Chinese and comparative literature at Brigham Young University. He teaches courses in modern and contemporary Chinese literature, cinema, culture,and
advanced business language as well as comparative literature.
His research interests include disability studies; cultural production under authoritarian regimes; war, memory and literature and ecocriticism. He is currently working on a book manuscript
analyzing how disability is depicted and used in contemporary Chinese fiction, poetry, essays and visual culture including film.
Terence Russell is Associate Professor of Chinese in the Asian Studies Centre at the University of Manitoba. He received his PhD in classical Chinese from Australian National University. More
recently he has turned his attention to modern literature in Chinese, especially the literature of Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples. His translations include the work of numerous Taiwanese writers,
both Indigenous and ethnic Han, as well as two full-length novels by the Shandong writer Zhang Wei: Jiuyue yuyan [September Fable] and Mogu qizhong [Seven Kinds of Mushrooms]. He is currently
co-editor of Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series.
Bert M. Scruggs is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Translingual Narration: Colonial and Postcolonial Taiwanese Fiction and Film.
