Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music

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.

"In sum, this is an extremely rich collection of essays. As the editors of the volume put it, this collection of essays 'bears witness to the huge advances that the study of Chinese culture has made since the 1970s, when [Wilt Idema] started his career' (p.1). Having benefitted from Idema's impressive scholarship both as a reader and as a long-distance student of his, I can understand why he inspired so extensive a Festschrift." – JIE GUO, University of South Carolina, in: MCLC Resource Center Publication (October 2010)