Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema

Maghiel van Crevel, PhD in Chinese literature (Leiden, 1996), is Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Leiden University. His publications include "Language Shattered: Contemporary Chinese Poetry and Duoduo" (1996) and "Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money" (2008). Tian Yuan Tan, PhD in Chinese literature (Harvard, 2006), is Lecturer in Traditional Chinese Literature and Culture at SOAS, University of London. His recent publications include The Wolf of Zhongshan and Ingrates (2007) and The Sovereign and the Theater (2008). Michel Hockx, PhD in Chinese literature (Leiden, 1994), is Professor of Chinese at SOAS, University of London. He has published extensively on modern Chinese poetry, and on the sociology of modern Chinese literature.