TIMOTHY BILLINGS is a professor of English and comparative literature at Middlebury College. His translations include Matteo Ricci’s On Friendship (Columbia University Press, 2009) and, with Christopher Bush, Victor Segalen’s Stèles / 古今碑錄 (Wesleyan University Press, 2007).
TIMOTHY BROOK holds the Republic of China chair of the Department of History and Institute of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He has published widely on the social and cultural history of the Ming dynasty.
HUIYING CHEN is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
DREW DIXON studied comparative literature at Princeton and is a PhD candidate with the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
JENNIFER EICHMAN is a religious studies scholar and a research associate at the Centre of Buddhist Studies, SOAS, University of London. Her primary area of expertise is late-Ming Chinese Buddhist traditions, with an interdisciplinary emphasis on the relationship between network and discourse.
RIVI HANDLER-SPITZ is an assistant professor of Chinese language and literature at Macalester College. Her work on Li Zhi analyzes his writings in the context of global early-modern rhetoric and aesthetics.
MARTIN HUANG is a professor of Chinese at the University of California, Irvine. He has published widely on late imperial Chinese literature and gender history. He is working on a project titled Gender and Memory in Late Imperial China.
THOMAS KELLY received his BA from Oxford University and is a PhD candidate in East Asian languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago. His research explores the relations between the literary imagination and the decorative arts in early-modern China.
DAVID LEBOVITZ is a PhD candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.
PAULINE C. LEE is an assistant professor of Chinese religions and culture at Saint Louis University. She is the author of Li Zhi, Confucianism, and the Virtue of Desire (SUNY Press, 2012), and her current work includes study of changing views of play in China.
HAUN SAUSSY is University Professor at the University of Chicago. His most recent book is The Ethnography of Rhythm: Orality and Its Technologies (Fordham University Press, 2016).
ZINAN YAN is a lecturer at Beijing Normal University. He received his MA and PhD in Sinology from SOAS, University of London. His research area is Ming-Qing poetry, with a special interest in the literary culture of the Qianlong court.